SEM [=GORSAT, GEORGES] Affaire Bolo-Pacha. 68 Croquis d'Audience par Sem . [Paris: circa 1918]. Number 11 of 300 copies on Arches, signed in ink by Sem on the colophon. Half purple morocco by J. Weckesser. 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches (31 x 24 cm); original printed wrappers and folder bound-in, 68 lithographic croquis on 24 sheets. One scratch to morocco else fine; Together with a second copy, laid into the original printed envelope. Folder lightly worn, otherwise a fine copy. The Bolo-Pacha affair refers to the case of the French traitor Paul Bolo, who had convinced the Egyptian Khedive that a pacifist movement in France was possible if enough money was raised from German stories to plant stories in the press. Found guilty of treason, he faced a firing squad in April 1918. Sem's caricatures portray the courtroom players. C
SEM [=GORSAT, GEORGES] Affaire Bolo-Pacha. 68 Croquis d'Audience par Sem . [Paris: circa 1918]. Number 11 of 300 copies on Arches, signed in ink by Sem on the colophon. Half purple morocco by J. Weckesser. 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches (31 x 24 cm); original printed wrappers and folder bound-in, 68 lithographic croquis on 24 sheets. One scratch to morocco else fine; Together with a second copy, laid into the original printed envelope. Folder lightly worn, otherwise a fine copy. The Bolo-Pacha affair refers to the case of the French traitor Paul Bolo, who had convinced the Egyptian Khedive that a pacifist movement in France was possible if enough money was raised from German stories to plant stories in the press. Found guilty of treason, he faced a firing squad in April 1918. Sem's caricatures portray the courtroom players. C
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