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SURVAGE (Léopold) & COCTEAU (Jean). Pegasus. Ten burins by Léopold Survage. Paris, Nouveau cercle Parisien du livre, 1965. In-folio in ff. with illustrated cover in grey cloth wrapping. Cover and 10 burins by Survage engraved in and out of the text. Edition at 170 copies; n°IX of the 20 collaborators' copies. "The idea of this book, gathering under the theme of Pegasus poems of Jean Cocteau illustrated by Léopold Survage had been submitted to the Poet and had pleased him. A few days before his death he invited us to Milly-la-Forêt to give us the texts and the preface he had specially written. But, on the day of our appointment, he was not there anymore", afterword. Upper side of the slipcase broken, otherwise very good copy.
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SURVAGE (Léopold) & COCTEAU (Jean). Pegasus. Ten burins by Léopold Survage. Paris, Nouveau cercle Parisien du livre, 1965. In-folio in ff. with illustrated cover in grey cloth wrapping. Cover and 10 burins by Survage engraved in and out of the text. Edition at 170 copies; n°IX of the 20 collaborators' copies. "The idea of this book, gathering under the theme of Pegasus poems of Jean Cocteau illustrated by Léopold Survage had been submitted to the Poet and had pleased him. A few days before his death he invited us to Milly-la-Forêt to give us the texts and the preface he had specially written. But, on the day of our appointment, he was not there anymore", afterword. Upper side of the slipcase broken, otherwise very good copy.
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