Les dimanches de la Comtesse de Narbonne, Daisy Fellowes, Illustrations de Vertès [Sundays]. Paris: Editions de France, 1935. French.
The most famous book by Daisy Fellowes (1890-1962), a Parisian socialite of Jewish origin, renowned beauty and fashion icon, French editor of American "Harper's Bazaar", heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune and novelist.
Numbered copy, 15/20 out of an edition totalling 1000 copies, signed on half title page by the author and the illustrator Marcel Vertès, and including two original illustrations by Vertès.
Marcel Vertès (1895-1961) - Hungarian painter, printmaker and illustrator, emigrated to Paris and was one of the city’s outstanding painters in the 1920s. In his paintings and prints he succeeded in capturing the spirit of the dynamic city and its residents.
191 pp., 26 cm. Very good condition. Light foxing. Red-pink leather binding with gilt frame