Album de Monsieur Teste par Paul Valéry
Avec des gravures de l'auteur
Paris: Éditions de la Galerie Charpentier, 1945
Folio (slipcase 33.3 x 26.9 cm; pages 32.5 x 25.7 cm). No. 2 of 25 copies
printed on vélin blanc de Lana (tête d’édition),
of the entire edition of 225 numbered copies (rest of edition on vélin
teinté de Marais; some additional copies for collaborators), with
a suite of the etchings on vélin teinté in a separate portfolio.
Illustrated with 10 original etchings (two with aquatint) by Valéry.
Loose as issued in original cream-colored wraps (titles printed in black
on front covers), in the original pale rose-colored board chemise and slipcase.
Contained in a walnut red Cave paper clamshell box by Nello Nanni. Collates
16 double bifolia: [1 l.], 2 ll. (frontispiece plate and title), pp. [7]-116,
[1 l.], 3 ll. (table and colophon), [2ll.]. Two small repaired and reinforced
breaks at outer corners of slipcase, otherwise fine throughout. “Monsieur
Teste en images" (pp. 7-8) here appears in first edition; the remainder
of the text conforms to the 1926 original edition. Karaïskakis-Chapon
85E.
We offer this title as one of a collection of ten limited edition copies
of Paul Valéry titles, most of great rarity, some extraordinarily so, in
overall astounding condition, together with a copy of the standard bibliography.
While we have priced this and the other titles individually in our individual
listings, we will give strong preference to preserving the group intact.
See the listing of the group here.
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Price: $1,750
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