This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/9/2023
[MÉLIÈS] CHELU, Caroline. Le Nain Jaune [The Yellow Dwarf] Galop Brilliant. Paris: A. Rouart, ca. 1890. Sheet music for piano, dedicated to Madame Méliès and composed to accompany her husband’s magic-filled pantomime production at the Theatre Robert-Houdin in Paris based on the seventeenth century fairy tale and classic French board game of the same name. The front wrapper bears an image of the dwarf, resplendent in an elaborate harlequin-like costume with a playing card at the center of his chest. 8pp. including wraps, with reinforcements to one internal leaf and expected wear to spine, else very good. RARE; the first example we have encountered.