Author: [SEMPÉ, JEAN-JACQUES, 1932-....),
Title: Les Amis des Belles Manières. [Édition originale limité/original limited edition].
Description: S.I., s.n., [circa], 1955. 4°., original limp paper portfolio, full-sized cartoons on upper-and lower wrappers. Illustrated Hftitle (verso blank).Title-leave with provenance and a large cartoon (verso blank). 40 full-size loosely inserted plates on limp paer (versos blank), being cartoons after drawings by Jean-Jacques Sempé after original drawings, illustrating rather bizarre sex-acts. Complete set of 40 cartoons after original drawings. Limited and numbered edition of 400 copies only, this copy bears nr. 255. Fine complete set. Rare. (spine of portfolio a bit damaged in places). Without have ever attended an Art school Jean-Jacques Sempé has become one of the most famous cartoonist worldwide. He worked as an illustrator for periodicals lik Paris Match, Punch, l'Express in the 1950s.

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