[Rarebooks] FS: Original Watercolors and Drawings for Casanova's Memoirs by Rene Ben Sussan
Charles Agvent
chagvent at ptd.net
Thu Sep 27 14:05:52 EDT 2012
We have recently posted on our home page and elsewhere 175 new Limited
Editions Club acquisitions including Original Art for some of the books;
publisher's, office, and proof copies of the books; and books still in
their original shipping containers, as well as some high points of the
press. Here is an example.
CASANOVA, Jacques (Rene Ben SUSSAN). THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA
(THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASA NOVA): A complete set of the 16 ORIGINAL
WATERCOLORS and the 17 LINE DRAWINGS for the book. [Haarlem, Holland]:
[Limited Editions Club], [1972]. The complete publisher's archive of 16
ORIGINAL watercolors, some mildly erotic in theme, and 17 ORIGINAL line
drawings by Rene Ben Sussan used for the book. The watercolors are 5" x
8" on 7-3/4" x 11-1/4" paper with the line drawings on smaller, various
sized sheets. All are lettered in the upper corner in red ink with
pencil annotations below the image. Housed in a paper folder from the
publisher. Accompanied by an out-of-series copy of the book SIGNED by
the artist that was bound upside down. Fine.
Rene Ben Sussan was active from the 1920s to the 1960s and illustrated
many books, including 8 for the Limited Editions Club alone.
(#016607) $5,000.00
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