When the dedicatee is prestigious, when the inscription itself is part of the writer's history or sheds new light on the work... an exceptional autograph bears witness to a major event: the work's encounter with History.
Edition illustrated with original tailpieces and vignettes by Jean-Gabriel Daragnès engraved on wood, one of 250 numbered copies on Arches vellum, the only edition with 30 various Japan.
Publisher's binding in full flexible boards covered with watered paper, title vignette pasted on the front cover.
Precious and fine autograph inscription from J.-G. Daragnès to André Gide who signed twice (in black ink then in blue ballpoint pen).
A tiny lack at the foot of one joint, handsome copy.
First edition, one of 100 numbered advance (service de presse) copies on alfa du Marais paper.
Half brown morocco Bradel binding over marbled paper boards by P. Goy & C. Vilaine, gilt date to foot of spine, yellow paper endpapers and pastedowns , advertising band preserved and mounted on guards.
Light dampstain to foot of covers, a trace of folding to upper cover, foxing to covers and the first few leaves.
A nicely bound copy.
A rare and poetic autograph inscription from Aimé Césaire to the Pataphysician Maurice Saillet.
First edition on ordinary paper.
A vertical shadow along the entire length of the lower cover, otherwise a very good copy.
Illustrated wrapper with a drawing by Claude Cahun.
Precious signed autograph inscription from the author Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes to André Breton: "... au grand chanteur / à la sirène / au ........ hélas".
