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Les mandarins

1954140 x 200 mm

FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF 750 COPIES ON VELLUM LABEUR.

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FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF 750 COPIES ON VÉLIN LABEUR FROM PAPETERIES NAVARRE IN VOIRON, BOUND ACCORDING TO THE DESIGN BY MARIO PRASSINOS 
(Huret, 57), after 25 copies on Hollande and 110 copies on pur-fil.

The Mandarins was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1954.

 

Paris,Gallimard,1954.In-8 sun, Bound,140 x 200 mm,579 pp.

Spine lightened, top cover slightly frayed.

Bio

Simone de Beauvoir

(Paris: January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986)

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Bio

Mario Prassinos

(Constantinople: 30 July 1916 - Avignon: 23 October 1985)

Greek-born French non-figurative painter of the New School of Paris. In 1942, he became friends with Raymond Queneau and collaborated with the NRF publishing house, for which he created book models and NRF cartonnages, sometimes known as cartonnages Prassinos or "reliés Bonet-Prassinos".

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