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SARRAUTE Nathalie (1900-1999) The Planetarium. Paris, NRF Gallimard, 1959. In-12, 3 bl. ff. cover, 311 pp. cover and spine, 3 bl. ff. Full brown morocco, boards and smooth spine continuously decorated with fine cold-stamped fillets framing different shapes in reserve, edge-to-edge linings of metallic olive box, brocaded silk endpapers, double endpapers of yellow and green hand-painted kromekote paper, smooth titled spine, gilt edges on witnesses. Cover and spine preserved, spine and flap folder of the same morocco and paper, lined case and matching paper signed (L. Gérard // Anne Thimmesch, gilt). First edition. One of 35 copies on vellum paper pur fil Lafuma-Navarre watermarked, only large paper (n° 5). Autograph address in blue ink on the frontispiece, to Maître Robert Moureau. A very nice copy in an elegant binding by Liliane GÉRARD. PROVENANCE Library of Robert MOUREAU (ex-libris on the upper double-guard). (Upper corner of the slipcase dulled).
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SARRAUTE Nathalie (1900-1999) The Planetarium. Paris, NRF Gallimard, 1959. In-12, 3 bl. ff. cover, 311 pp. cover and spine, 3 bl. ff. Full brown morocco, boards and smooth spine continuously decorated with fine cold-stamped fillets framing different shapes in reserve, edge-to-edge linings of metallic olive box, brocaded silk endpapers, double endpapers of yellow and green hand-painted kromekote paper, smooth titled spine, gilt edges on witnesses. Cover and spine preserved, spine and flap folder of the same morocco and paper, lined case and matching paper signed (L. Gérard // Anne Thimmesch, gilt). First edition. One of 35 copies on vellum paper pur fil Lafuma-Navarre watermarked, only large paper (n° 5). Autograph address in blue ink on the frontispiece, to Maître Robert Moureau. A very nice copy in an elegant binding by Liliane GÉRARD. PROVENANCE Library of Robert MOUREAU (ex-libris on the upper double-guard). (Upper corner of the slipcase dulled).
