Claude TERRASSE

First edition, one of the press copies.
Half brown shagreen binding, smooth spine with gilt floral panels, gilt initials C.T. at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, covers preserved, gilt edges, one upper corner slightly rubbed, binding dating from some years later.
Inscribed by Charles Terrasse (son of Claude) in ink at the head of a flyleaf.

Discreet restorations to the joints.
Precious presentation copy signed and inscribed by Alfred Jarry: "A Claude Terrasse son admirateur et son ami. Alf. Jarry" [his admirer and friend]

 

Ubu Roi
Second edition, partly unpublished, printed with 300 copies using the autographic facsimile reproduction method: the handwritten text by Alfred Jarry is carefully written in calligraphy like the score written by Claude Terrasse, which is itself in first edition, one of 10 copies on Japan paper, the tirage de tête before 10 Holland paper.

Binding in full garnet morocco, spine decorated with curved gilt fillets continuing on the boards, names of the author and the artist embossed in white, boards stamped with gilt and tricoloured (green,