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La Route des Flandres

1966 140 x 194 mm

FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF 87 EXEMPLES numbered on pur-fil vellum

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FIRST EDITION.

ONE OF 87 EXEMPLAIRES numbered on pur-fil vellum, the only large paper edition.

Complete with rare insert.

"Unlike a chronicle, in which events are recounted as they unfold, in La Route des Flandres the author sets out less to tell a story than to describe the imprint it leaves on a memory and a sensibility". (The editors, please insert)

Prix de l'Express, The Flanders Route is considered to be the major work of the author, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1985.

Copy preserved in an elegant blue chagrin slipcase by Patrice Goy and Carine Vilaine.

Paris,Éditions de Minuit,1966. 140 x 194 mm,314 pp.

Etui-Chemise blue chagrin and paper signed Goy et Vilaine.

Bio

Claude Simon

(born on 10 October 1913 in Tananarive, Madagascar and died on 6 July 2005 in Paris)

The Nobel Prize in Literature.

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