Handsome copy despite the spine being very slightly sunned.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Jacques Chessex to André Bourin: "... ces fouilles dans le style..." ["... these excavations in style..."]
First edition, no deluxe paper copies were issued.
With a precious signed autograph inscription by Jacques Higelin to Régine Deforges : “To my lady Régine Deforges, the tender greeting of my twenty springs, which I lay today at the doorstep of your heart's secret garden.”
Provenance: the library of Régine Deforges.
A handsome copy.
First edition printed from the Vatican archives, one of 27 numbered copies on pure linen paper, deluxe copy.
Rare and fine copy.
Commentary by Raymond Ritter.
First edition, one of 315 numbered copies on laid Marais paper and reimposed in Tellière quarto format.
Half dark green shagreen bindings with corners, spines with five raised bands, gilt dates at foot, combed paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns of matching paper, covers and spines preserved, slipcase edged with dark green shagreen, boards covered with combed paper.