[French children's books] Three (rare) French language works: (1) Fr. Hellens, F. (= Fr. van Ermengem)

Histoire d'une poupée noire. Paris, Desclée, De Brouwer & Cie (printed in Bruges), n.d. (early to mid 20th cent.), 27,(2) p., col. ills. and orig. pictorial wr. by Elisabeth Ivanovsky, 4to. Good copy of a very rare and splendidly illustrated black interest work. (2) Hellé, A. Films pour les tout-petits. (title on front cover: Images drôlatiques (Films)). Ibid., by P. Dupont for Librairie Garnier, n.d. (1923), 32 p., col. ills. and orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards by Hellé, 4to. Extremities of covers and spine worn/ sl. dam. Very humorously illustrated work. -and 1 other illustrated by Olga Kovalevsky.

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