Les croix de bois. Avec des dessins et des pointes sèches de ANDRÉ DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC.

Paris (Éditions de La Banderole), 1921.. 278, (4)pp., 10 original drypoint etchings. Prof. illus. 4to. Full black and tan blindstamped morocco gilt (slightly rubbed at edges). Calf doublures (signed Pierre Legrain), moiré silk endpapers. Orig. wraps. and spine bound in. One of 60 numbered copies on Hollande, from the limited edition of 600, the etchings printed by Xavier Havermans and the text by Coulouma. A remarkable copy including two original ink sketches by Segonzac on buff paper (one 160 x 125 mm. tipped in, one 255 x 180 bound in), both inscribed Pour les Croix de Bois and signed at lower right; and in a superb master binding by Pierre Legrain in black and tan morocco, both covers depicting the shadows of three crosses cast in blind against a black ground by a cross silhouetted at the summit against a tan sky. A similar binding by Legrain for the same work, executed by René Kieffer for Vever, is cited in the Legrain Répertoire (no. 264, reproduced in color as plate C).
André Dunoyer de Segonzac exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1908, the Salon des Indépendents in 1909, and participated in the Armory Show in New York in 1913. In 1914 he was drafted into military service in World War I, earning the Croix de Guerre in 1918. He published hundreds of drawings between 1914-1918, and then learned etching in 1919 in order to illustrate The Wooden Crosses by Roland Dorgelès. The artist then produced over 1600 etchings over his lifetime. His work is held in many of the world's major museums. (Inventory #: B173212-1)