van Dongen (Kees).- Badreddine-el-Bass Raoui (Hassan) Conte des 1001 Nuits, translated by J.-C.Mardrus, number 272 of 200 copies on Hollande van Gelder, from an edition limited to 310, decorative title, 7 pochoir plates coloured by J.Saudé and numerous illustrations by Kees van Dongen, with the 4 censored erotic plates bound at end, some light offsetting, small stain to corner of first censored plate, bound in dark blue goatskin, by M.Burkhart, upper cover onlaid with two birds in natural and tan calf against a sky tooled with stars in gilt and desert horizon in blind at foot across both boards, spine titled in gilt with stars, original wrappers with pochoir illustrations bound in (spine rubbed and torn, repaired), uncut, board slip-case (slightly rubbed), 4to (binding c.335 x 260mm.), Paris, [1918].

⁂ The first book illustrated by van Dongen, in an attractive binding.