Sale 2514 - The Pride Sale, June 20, 2019

47 c MARIETTE LYDIS (1887-1970) Criminelles. Text by Pierre MacOrlan. 24 etchings with typed, cut, and mounted captions. 6x4 1 / 2 inches, 15x11 cm, on 11x9-inch, 28x23 cm sheets. Folio, plates and one folded leaf with introduction and colophon loose as issued in publisher’s pictorial cloth case with ties; bookplate on inside front cover. number 64 on arches , signed by lydis , from a total edition of 75. Paris: Au Depends de l’Artiste, 1927. [2,000/3,000] 47 48 48 c C. J. BULLIET Venus Castina: Famous Female Impersonators Celestial and Human. Illustrated by Alexander King. 4to, purple crushed morocco with gilt rose and leaf motif on covers and spine, green leather inlay detail on spine, extremities a bit rubbed, full green doublures with purple gilt turn-ins, watered silk endpapers, top edges trimmed and gilt. Printed by Robert S. Josephy for J.J. Little and Ives Company. New York: Covici Friede, 1928. [700/1,000] number 12 of only 13 copies containing an original signed watercolor by king and S igned by B ulliet , from a total edition of 960.