Paris

New edition. Imprint for this new edition completed on December 1st, 1655.
Very worn contemporary full brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with grotesques (leafy designs, dots and fleur-de-lys). Brown sheep title label. Headcaps torn with large lacks to first and last compartments. Joints cracked at head and foot with leather lacks. Corners cut and worn bare. Overall very rubbed. First text leaf with browning, some following leaves affected. Foxing to index. Lacks lower right corner of page 1043.
19th-century armorial bookplate of Bellaigne de Bughas.

First edition, one of 70 numbered copies on Lafuma de Voiron and reimposed in quarto Tellière format, only deluxe copies ("tirage de tête").
Spine and cover slightly and marginally sunned.
Nice copy.

First edition, one of the publisher’s press copies.

Some light spotting to the boards and spine.

Exceptional signed autograph inscription from Raymond Queneau to his very close friend and biographer Jean Queval, himself a leading figure and co-founder of Oulipo.

This dedication is followed by a second one — in English and heavily corrected — by Jean Queval: "To the [?], in friendship. NB. I smoke no more. This is a rather nice book, one on which I worked. There's also Beowulf. There is a university in Limoges. Untest uncheck ! Nan is none too well."