Haulot. Arthur - Flying the Colours of Belgium. Preface by John L. Brown. Translated and Adapted by Marnix Gijsen Brussels: Editions Est-Ouest, (1964). (1964). Brussels: Editions Est-Ouest, (1964). (1964). Good. - Oblong 4to, tan cloth backed color pictorial paper covered boards (bumped; rear board soiled with small brown stains) titled in B&W. 131 pp. plus colophon (front hinge just starting; page edges darkened) printed on one side only. 26 color plates. Good. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 70 | £UK 60 | JP¥ 11474] Book number 638From the library of Leonard Bernstein [Sotheby Sale 7070, Lot #144], inscribed to him on the front endpaper by the Commissioner of Tourism: "Au Maitre Leonard Bernstein, en signe de bienvenue a Bruxelles, et en temoignage de ma tres vive admiration / [?] / Commissaire general du Tourisme / 22/8/1968". The author writes in his introductory "Letters to a Friend": "My purpose, in these few pages, is to invite you to wander around in our provinces, from Flanders to Wallonia, from Wallonia to Flanders, through Brabant looking for that 'multiple splendor' of a country whose narrow borders make all the more astonishing its vast natural and artistic variety." . Good . is offered by:
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