SAINT-JOHN PERSE.
Chronique. Paris, Gallimard. NRF., 1960; large in-4 (3 x 28cm) blue box decorated on the boards, in a large box of the same box, with a geometrical composition suggested by oblique, vertical and horizontal listels, mosaicked in the same box in light relief with light grey edges, lining and endpapers of midnight blue suede (binding by Pierre-Lucien Martin dated 1977.
First separate edition.
Copy n° 3 on Japon impérial. Limited edition of 186 copies; 21 on Japon impérial numbered 1/21 and 165 on vélin de Hollande. Reference : Pierre-Lucien Martin. Catalog written by Claude Blaizot with the collaboration of Georges Bernard. Bruxelles Bibliothéca
Wittockiana, 1987, n° 153, page 169.
