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1956145 x 195 mm

FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF THE FIRST 74 EX. ON VELIN.
Mosaic binding by Pierre-Lucien Martin.

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FIRST EDITION of this psychological novel, a model of its kind, in which the reader is plunged into the skin of Isabelle, one of four women living in an eight-closet in the Nantes region.

ONE OF THE FIRST 74 COPIES ON BANK VELLUMfollowed by 130 copies on pur-fil and 795 copies on esparto.

A fine copy, very well established by Pierre-Lucien Martin in half-box and mosaic paper.

Paris,Grasset,1956.In-8, Bound,145 x 195 mm,252 [2] pp.

Binding signed P.-L. Martin. Black half-box, boards decorated with a geometrical mosaic composition in 3 colours, smooth spine with gold titling, gilt head, glossy orange paper endpapers, cover and spine preserved, half-rhodoïd folder with small flaps, edged slipcase.

Bio

Hervé Bazin

(born on 17 April 1911 in Angers, commune where he died on 17 February 1996)

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