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Colette. La vagabonde, limited edition, Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1927, half-title, original wrappers bound in, spotting, bookplate of Jean de Bavier, edges untrimmed, contemporary marbled quarter sheep, 8vo (19.2 x 13 cm), number 556 of 2000 copies on papier vélin de marais, together with: Maurois (André), Tourguéniev, Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1927, browned, inscribed by the author 'Pour Mme de Bavier, en sympathie, André Maurois' on the initial blank, contemporary green quarter sheep, spine sunned, 8vo (17.4 x 10.7 cm), Riou (Gaston), Ellen et Jean, 1st edition, Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1923, spotting, contemporary quarter morocco, rubbed, 8vo (20.5 x 13.5 cm), one of 30 copies on van Gelder paper from the total edition of 100, this copy inscribed 'Pour très chers Jean et [?] de Bavier, avec ma profonde affection, Gaston Riou', and 27 others, mainly early-20th-century French literature and history including others by Gaston Riou, many inscribed by the author to Edouard or Jean de Bavier, with the recipient's bookplate, decorative leather bindings, various formats (Qty: 30) Provenance: Edouard de Bavier (1842-1926) was a Swiss merchant who at one point served as consul general of Denmark in Japan; his son Jean de Bavier (c.1892-?) achieved recognition for his reporting on the situation of the Hungarian Jewry as International Red Cross representative in Budapest between October 1943 and May 1944.