GUITRY (Sacha). From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain. Paris, - Lot 318

GUITRY (Sacha). From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain. Paris, 1944, in-4, in sheets in editorial cardboard, non-original slipcase.ORIGINAL EDITION illustrated with numerous reproductions in the text by Guy Arnoux, Bonnard, Lucien Boucher, Dunoyer de Segonzac, etc. Edition printed at 675 copies. Nominative copy. It is a reunion of 2 copies of the same edition with 2 proofs of the printing, one to Mr. Pierre Aubry and the other to Mr. Henri Davoux (?) signed by the author. Included are 5 original drawings by Bernard Naudin, 9 drawings by Galanis including 2 washings, 3 ink drawings by Guy Arnoux, a charcoal drawing of Balzac by Le Campion, a refused colour plate by Lucien Boucher, 2 draft endpapers by Louis Bouquet, an unsigned portrait of Debussy by Guitry, an open letter to the Minister of Fine Arts, a manuscript of a poem by R. Fauchois, including an unpublished stanza, and the correction of a proof of Maurice Donnay's Fable with an autograph letter and a draft cover. Broken slipcase.