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Quatres cartonnages Prassinos

1949140 x 200 mm

Four volumes on Alfa
BOUND FROM A MODEL BY MARIO PRASSINOS

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BEAUTIFUL SET OF NRF BINDED CARDBOARDS AFTER MARIO PRASSINOS' MAQUETTES from the "Les Classiques Russes" collection.

Crime and punishment
1948, 515 pp. 

ONE OF 1,040 COPIES BOUND ON ESPARTO FROM A DESIGN BY MARIO PRASSINOS 
(Huret, 163).
Translated from the French by Henri Mongault and Marc Laval.

Humiliated and offended
1949, 379 pp.

ONE OF 1,040 COPIES BOUND ON ALFAMA FROM A DESIGN BY MARIO PRASSINOS
(Huret, 165).
Translated by Sylvie Luneau.

Memoirs written underground
1949, 253 pp.
ONE OF 1,040 COPIES BOUND ON ESPARTO FROM A DESIGN BY MARIO PRASSINOS  (Huret, 168).
Translated by Jean Chuzeville.

A writer's diary
1951, 645 pp
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ONE OF 1,050 COPIES ON ALFAMA FROM PAPETERIES DU MARAIS BOUND FROM A DESIGN BY MARIO PRASSINOS (Huret, 167).
Translated from the French by Jean Chuzeville.

 

 

Paris,Gallimard,1949.In-12, Bound,140 x 200 mm,379 pp + table.

Bindings in good condition, one headband rubbed, spines slightly faded.

Bio

Fyodor Dostoewski

(Moscow: 30 October 1821 - St Petersburg: 28 January 1881)

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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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