PIGNON (Édouard) & VALÉRY (Paul). Includes two original pencil drawings. Dialogue de l'Arbre. Eaux-fortes, aquatints and woodcuts by Édouard Pignon. Paris, Bernard Klein, s. d. (1958). In-folio on ff. in illustrated filled cover, cloth slipcase with the signatures of Paul Valéry and Pignon on the front cover and the full title on the spine (publisher's slipcase). 7 etchings and aquatints by Pignon (color cover, frontispiece, 5 double-page etchings and aquatints), 20 woodcuts in-text. First edition at 290 copies, Copy printed especially for Hélène Parmelin, with verso of the title page a full-page drawing by Pignon with a dedication "A Marcelle très amicalement / Pignon 64" and a drawing in the title of the leaf with the order of the plates. Printed by Daniel Jacomet. Preface by Agathe Rouart-Valéry. A fine copy.

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