Pen drawing of a cat, signed by Foujita, on the front free endpaper of a first edition of Bertrand Poirot-Delpech's Le Grand Dadais.

Paris: Éditions Denoël, 1958.

Price: $10,000.00


About the item

First edition. Inscribed by Poirot-Delpech to June Beckelman Guicharnaud on the half-title. The drawing, approx. 7 x 4 1/2 inches. The book, 188, [2]pp, unopened. 1 vols. 8vo. Original wrappers, some toning, otherwise fine; book mostly unopened.

Item #329405

A choice drawing of a cat by Foujita, reclining but alert

June Beckelman Guicharnaud (1922-1989), noted French translator, editor and author, was married to French theatre critic and French literature scholar Jacques Guicharnaud.