BOX B. 1910

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CAHIER B. 1910

1924148 x 190 mm and 240 x 190 mm

ONE OF THE 12 FIRST EXECTS on China
and ONE OF 130 EX. signed by the author.

550 €

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RARE REUNION OF THE TWO ORIGINAL EDITIONS.

- ORIGINAL EDITION in phototype reproducing the manuscript using Daniel Jacomet's process, published in 1925 by Édouard Champion.
ONE OF THE 130 EXAMPLES signed by the author (after 10 ex. on Japan).

- ORIGINAL typographical EDITION published by Gallimard.
ONE OF THE FIRST 12 NUMBERED EXAMPLES on China.

"there's a fool in me, and I must take advantage of his faults. Outside, I have to mask them, excuse them... But inside, I don't deny them, I try to use them. It's an eternal battle against the gaps, the omissions, the dispersions, the gales. But who is inside me, if they are not me?".

Karaiskakis-Chapon 42 & 42A

 

Paris,Édouard Champion,Gallimard,1924, 1926. Softcover148 x 190 mm and 240 x 190 mm, not paginated and 83 pp.

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Paul Valery

(born in Sète - Hérault on 30 October 1871 and died in Paris on 20 July 1945)

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