(Corti) CHAR, René (BRAQUE, Georges): The sun of the waters. Spectacle for a painting of the fishermen. Paris: Matarasso, 1949. A volume in-4° in sheets under printed and filled covers. Folder titled on the back and hardback case of the publisher. Complete with its 4 full-page etchings by Georges BRAQUE, including frontispiece. ORIGINAL EDITION printed at 200 numbered copies. 1 of 170 on vélin du Marais signed by René Char and Georges Braque (ex. n°137). The subscription form is enclosed. (P.A. Benoit : n°33).VERY GOOD EDITION enriched with a handwritten sending from René Char to José Corti : " To José Corti. These waters which are familiar to him. Very friendly. R. Char."

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