(Corti) PEYRE DE MANDIARGUES, André (FINI, Léonor): Dans les années sordides. Monaco: s.e., 1943. A large paperback volume in-12° under illustrated and filled covers. Not trimmed. Illustrated with 3 drawings after Leonor FINI, including 1st cover, frontispiece and one hors-texte. ORIGINAL EDITION printed at 280 numbered copies on vellum pur fil à la forme of the Fabriano paper mills (ex. n° 138). VERY GOOD EXAMPLE of the 1st book of Mandiargues.

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