Mario Prassinos (30/07/1916 - 23/10/1985)

First edition, one of 750 numbered copies on vélin labeur.
Publisher's paper boards with an original design by Mario Prassinos.
Spine very slightly faded as usual, otherwise a good copy.

New edition printed in 1000 numbered copies.
Publisher's paper boards with an original design by Mario Prassinos.
With plates hors texte.
Spine wrinkled to the bottom.

Edition first in part, one of 540 numbered copies on alfa.
Publisher's paper boards with an original design by Mario Prassinos.
A good copy.

First edition, one of 1040 numbered copies on vellum higher.
Binding of the publisher according to the original model of Mario Prassinos.
Signed autograph from the author to Mr. L'Heureux.
Pleasant specimen.

Later edition of 1,050 numbered copies on vélin Navarre de Voiron paper.
Publisher's paper boards with an original design by Mario Prassinos.
A handsome and important inscription from Albert Camus to René Char :
“à René Char, ces premières Noces,
avec le meilleur du cœur.
Albert Camus [for René Char, these first Nuptials, from the bottom of my heart, Albert Camus]” .
The friendship between Albert Camus and René Char is among the most touching and most fruitful in French literature.
There was nothing obvious to bring together the Algerian journalist and author and the Provencal poet, much less to suggest a mutual affinity. Camus had not...