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21. ARAGON (Louis). Les Yeux d'Elsa. Neuchâtel, Éditions de la Baconnière, collection des Cahiers du Rhône, 1942, in-12 square, lapis lazuli morocco, smooth spine mosaiced with a large gray morocco E repeated three times and a small midnight blue A, author, title and date gilt, spine decoration repeated on the boards in semé, mosaic arabesques of yellow, orange, light brown and dark brown box, brown suede endpapers, gilt edges on brochure, cover and spine preserved, folder, case (Paul Bonet, 1965). First edition. 1/20 copies on Hollande (n° IX), first paper. Autograph verse signed by Louis Aragon from the poem Les Yeux d'Elsa: "It happened that one fine evening the universe shattered On the reefs that the shipwreckers set ablaze I saw shining above the sea Elsa's eyes Elsa's eyes Elsa's eyes Aragon " Below the title is Elsa's signature. An exceptional copy.
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21. ARAGON (Louis). Les Yeux d'Elsa. Neuchâtel, Éditions de la Baconnière, collection des Cahiers du Rhône, 1942, in-12 square, lapis lazuli morocco, smooth spine mosaiced with a large gray morocco E repeated three times and a small midnight blue A, author, title and date gilt, spine decoration repeated on the boards in semé, mosaic arabesques of yellow, orange, light brown and dark brown box, brown suede endpapers, gilt edges on brochure, cover and spine preserved, folder, case (Paul Bonet, 1965). First edition. 1/20 copies on Hollande (n° IX), first paper. Autograph verse signed by Louis Aragon from the poem Les Yeux d'Elsa: "It happened that one fine evening the universe shattered On the reefs that the shipwreckers set ablaze I saw shining above the sea Elsa's eyes Elsa's eyes Elsa's eyes Aragon " Below the title is Elsa's signature. An exceptional copy.
