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Steinbeck


Mario

Prassinos


Les pâturages du ciel – La grande vallée

1946120 x 180 mm

Two original editions
bound from a model by Mario Prassinos

110 €

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NRF cardboard Literature Copy on large paper First Edition

Description

SET OF TWO FRENCH FIRST EDITIONS.

The great valley (translated from the English by Marcel Duhamel and Max Morise)
FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF 1,040 COPIES ON ALFA NAVARRE ALL BOUND FROM THE MAQUETTE BY MARIO PRASSINOS (Huret 505) after 110 copies on lafuma Navarre under the cover of the collection "Du Monde entier".

Pastures in the sky (translated from the American by Louis Guilloux):
 FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF 1,040 COPIES ON ALFA NAVARRE ALL BINDINGS AFTER THE MAQUETTE BY MARIO PRASSINOS (Huret 507) after an edition of 210 copies on Vélin pur fil under the cover of the "Du Monde entier" collection.

 

 

Paris,Gallimard,1946, 1948.In-12, Bound,120 x 180 mm,274 pp + table; 246 pp.

Black publisher's boards. Spine and corners rubbed, edges dusty.

Bio

auteur

John Steinbeck

(Salinas: 27 February 1902 - New York: 20 December 1968)

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Bio

artiste

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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