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1955120 x 180 mm

FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF 550 COPIES ON VELLUM
Bound after the design by Prassinos

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The Matrix - Royal Air Force Depot Diary (August-December 1922) followed by Later notes by Private Ross, regimental number 352087 

FIRST EDITION translated from English by Étiemble.
ONE OF 550 NUMBERED COPIES ON VÉLIN LABEUR, BOUND ACCORDING TO THE DESIGN BY MARIO PRASSINOS
 (Huret 304), after 56 numbered copies on pur-fil under cover of Le Monde Entier.

Nice copy.

 

Paris,Gallimard,N.R.F,1955.In-12, Bound,120 x 180 mm,285 pp.

Spine slightly oiled. Casing.

Bio

Thomas Edward Lawrence

(Tremadoc, Wales: 16 August 1888 - Wareham: 19 May 1935)

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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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