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Complete set of travel books by the famous avant garde designer.
Along the Coast. New York: Harper & Bros., 1939. Folio (310 x 235 mm). Adapted by Margaret T. Parker, Professor of Geography at Wellesley College. With lithographs in ten colors by A. Exter. Cloth-backed decorated boards designed by A. Exter. Condition : covers rubbed. first edition. [With:] Down the River. New York: Harper & Bros., 1940. Folio (310 x 235 mm). Adapted by Margaret T. Parker, Professor of Geography at Wellesley College. With lithographs in ten colors by A. Exter. Cloth-backed decorated boards designed by A. Exter. Condition : covers rubbed. first edition. [And:] Up the Mountain. New York: Harper & Bros., 1940. Folio (310 x 235 mm). Adapted by Margaret T. Parker, Professor of Geography at Wellesley College. With lithographs in ten colors by A. Exter. Cloth-backed decorated boards designed by A. Exter with original dust wrapper. Condition : covers rubbed; former owner’s name on half-title page; minor foxing. first edition. American edition of three travel books for children published originally by “Père Castor” (Flammarion) in Paris: Panorama de la fleuve (1937), Panorama de la côte (1938), and Panorama de la montaigne (1938). Alexandra Exter was a famous avant garde costume and set designer. In 1924, she and her husband moved to Paris where she tought at at the Académie der Moderne and Fernand Léger's Académie d'Art Contemporain. Born in Bialystok, Russia (now Poland) to a wealthy Belarusian family, Exter was one of several émigré artists who worked for Paul Faucher founder of the popular “Père Castor” line of French children’s books. (3).