Title: Dans la Rue. Chansons et Monologues. Dessins de Steinlen Author: Bruant, Aristide Place: Paris Publisher: Aristide Bruant, Auteur Editeur Date: [1889 & 1895] Description: 2 volumes. 208; 208 pp. Many text illustrations by Steinlen. Small 8vo. Original colored pictorial wrappers, housed together in a custom slipcase. First Edition, early printings (Volume I: "Quatrieme Mille"; Volume II: "9e Mille"). The first two volumes of the collected songs and poems of the great argot bard of the French lower classes, wonderfully illustrated by the incomparable Steinlen. Bruant's moods range from hilarity to rage to bleakest despair, and what the reader may miss in the poet's gutter dialect is fully depicted in Steinlen's sketches. Lot Amendments Condition: General wear and soiling to these fragile volumes, creases to spine (one with chip to head and tears, plus hinge cracking and tape repairs); some darkening to contents; else good to very good. Scarce. Item number: 186880
Title: Dans la Rue. Chansons et Monologues. Dessins de Steinlen Author: Bruant, Aristide Place: Paris Publisher: Aristide Bruant, Auteur Editeur Date: [1889 & 1895] Description: 2 volumes. 208; 208 pp. Many text illustrations by Steinlen. Small 8vo. Original colored pictorial wrappers, housed together in a custom slipcase. First Edition, early printings (Volume I: "Quatrieme Mille"; Volume II: "9e Mille"). The first two volumes of the collected songs and poems of the great argot bard of the French lower classes, wonderfully illustrated by the incomparable Steinlen. Bruant's moods range from hilarity to rage to bleakest despair, and what the reader may miss in the poet's gutter dialect is fully depicted in Steinlen's sketches. Lot Amendments Condition: General wear and soiling to these fragile volumes, creases to spine (one with chip to head and tears, plus hinge cracking and tape repairs); some darkening to contents; else good to very good. Scarce. Item number: 186880
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