Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Gauguin, Paul. Gauguin, Paul. Noa Noa. Voyage de Tahiti).

With numerous pasted-in colour illus. after woodcuts, photographs and watercolours by Paul Gaugin. 2 leaves, 204 (recte 210) pp. Large 4to. Raw cloth with title on front board, orig. illus. jacket. – (Berlin and Munich, Ganymed-Presse for the Marées-Gesellschaft [R. Piper & Co.], 1926).

“45. Druck der Marées-Gesellschaft”. Ed. by J. Meier-Graefe. One 320 copies issued, here an unnumbered one in an alternative (later?) binding in raw cloth instead of the usual Rafia bast fiber. Impressum on a label on inner rear board. Complete facsimile of Gauguin’s Tahiti diary. On his second journey to Tahiti, Gauguin took with him the „Noa Noa“ manuscript which he enriched with own woodcuts, watercolours, and photographs. This autograph itself, at the time being possessed by Gauguin’s close friend George-Daniel de Monfreid, is today hold in the Louvre collection. From the present facsimile, 100 copies were printed and numbered exclusively for the Paris publisher G. Crès. Those were fitted out with an own title page. – Light wear to top of spine of jacket. Clean copy. – Best.-Nr. 27741