Four unusual 1920s-1950s works in French & Icelandic, bound in half snakeskin and fishskin

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Natural history; bindings. Four unusual 1920s-1950s works in French & Icelandic, bound in half snakeskin and fish scales. Comprising 1936 Indochine la Douce by Nguyen Tien Lang (second edition, Hanoi), a travelogue describing the food and culture of Vietnam; 1922 Trois Femmes Annamites by Cl Chivas-Baron (three thousandth, Paris), a novel describing the experiences of three Vietnamese woman under French colonial rule; [1927] Au Dragon d’Annam by Jean d’Esme (Paris), a short story collection set in Indochine; and 1955 Alþýðubókin, The Book of the People by Halldor Kiljan Laxness (fourth edition, Reykjavik, ex library, with letters to the spine and residue from a removed bookplate to the front pastedown and a bar code to the rear), a collection of essays by the winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize for Literature. Half snakeskin (the Alþýðubókin in fish scales) and marbled boards, each with gilt leather spine labels; lightly edgeworn, the leaves toned as expected. An unusually and strikingly bound collection. 8vo. (4vol)