[LITERATURE/MODERN ILLUSTRATED WORKS] - Lot 140

[LITERATURE/MODERN ILLUSTRATED WORKS] A collection of works illustrated by Théophile Steinlen: -MOREL (Emile)/ STEINLEN (Théophile)] Les Gueules noires, Paris, Edward Sansot, 1907 A 207-page, illustrated paperback volume in-4 format. Indicated as a second edition, published one year after the Courrières mining disaster (March 10, 1906), in which more than 1,000 miners died as a result of the collapse of the mine tunnels. Edition adorned with 15 lithographs by Steinlen as separate plates and vignettes. Text and illustrations are very dark. Cover is damaged. Head and tail caps are worn down. -DESCAVES (Lucien)/ STEINLEN (Théophile)] Barabbas, Paroles dans la vallée, Paris, Eugène Rey, 1914 First edition, unnumbered copy. A quarto-sized paperback volume with an illustrated dust jacket, 259 pages. - RICTUS (Jéhan)] ...*Le coeur populaire*, Paris, Eugène Rey, 1914 One of 1,000 copies printed on Arches vellum paper (no. 339) with a frontispiece portrait by Steinlen. A full black leather volume with a smooth spine, 222 pages. -RICTUS (Jéhan) Les soliloques du pauvre, Paris, Eugène Rey, 1913 A revised and corrected edition, expanded with previously unpublished poems. A volume bound in half-maroquin with black bands, title and author stamped on the spine