CS.1343.03
Images du cinéma francais : avant-propos de Paul Eluard / Nicole Vedrés.
Paris : Les Éditions du Chêne, [1945]
150 p. : ill. (incl. ports.) ; 27 cm.
Extensively illustrated with black and white photographs from the Cinémathèque française; includes original color pictorial covers.
"Printed in Great Britain, Collins Clear-Type Press : London and Glasgow, 1946"--T.p. verso.
With a half-title.
Label on back pastedown: "Penrose Tennyson Memorial Film Library"; memorial bookplate for Penrose Tennyson on the front pastedown recording the book is part of the Film Library.
Tipped-in leaf reading "Le premier album qui ait été consacré au cinéma français, avec les plus beaux documents de la Cinémathèque française", and signed in blue ink by H Langley? and A. Cavalcanti?.
Two ms. inscriptions on the half title page, one in blue ink reading "En hommage ce petit ouvrage à pendant quatre années nous avons recueilli tous ceux que nous aimons. Hlangley?"; and one in black ink reading "I have the greatest pleasure in presenting this copy to the "Penrose Tennyson Memorial Library" Cavalcanti?. London 1945".
Vellum binding with gilt Eton armorial centrepiece and gilt lettering on spine; grey-bluish mottled endleaves. ; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London (binder's stamp on back pastedown).
Motion pictures France.
Eluard, Paul, 1895 - 1952 writer of foreword.
Chêne (Firm) publisher.
Sangorski & Sutcliffe binder.
Collins' Clear-Type Press printer.
France Paris.
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B53238