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27. ARAGON (Louis). La Semaine sainte. Novel. Paris, Gallimard, 1958, in-8, midnight-blue box, ribbed spine richly mosaicked with a repeating geometric decoration in red, sky-blue and ochre box, sown with gilded dots throughout, blue box faux nerfs underlined by a double gilded fillet, title in English letters, single gilt fillet framing the boards, inner frame with blue box border with double gilt fillet, red glazed paper lining and endpaper, gilt edges on brochure, cover and spine preserved, case lined with blue box covered with the same red glazed paper (P.-L. Martin, 1963). First edition. 1/30 copies on Hollande van Gelder vellum, this 1/5 hors commerce (first paper). Copy C. Fine mailing on the title page: "À Pierre Consten tous les chevaux du monde" ("To Pierre Consten, all the horses in the world"). Binding to be compared with that appearing under no. 16 of the J.-P. G. sale (May 17-18, 1995), on the same work.
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27. ARAGON (Louis). La Semaine sainte. Novel. Paris, Gallimard, 1958, in-8, midnight-blue box, ribbed spine richly mosaicked with a repeating geometric decoration in red, sky-blue and ochre box, sown with gilded dots throughout, blue box faux nerfs underlined by a double gilded fillet, title in English letters, single gilt fillet framing the boards, inner frame with blue box border with double gilt fillet, red glazed paper lining and endpaper, gilt edges on brochure, cover and spine preserved, case lined with blue box covered with the same red glazed paper (P.-L. Martin, 1963). First edition. 1/30 copies on Hollande van Gelder vellum, this 1/5 hors commerce (first paper). Copy C. Fine mailing on the title page: "À Pierre Consten tous les chevaux du monde" ("To Pierre Consten, all the horses in the world"). Binding to be compared with that appearing under no. 16 of the J.-P. G. sale (May 17-18, 1995), on the same work.
