34 - René CHAR. *L’Inclémence lointaine*. With twenty-five engravings by Vieira da Silva. Paris, Pierre Berès, 1961.

René CHAR. *L’Inclémence lointaine*. With twenty-five engravings by Vieira da Silva. Paris, Pierre Berès, 1961. Folio size, black morocco leather, the covers adorned with an intaglio geometric design on a black box-calf background, the edges of which are covered with white box-calf, spine decorated with a cold-stamped geometric design featuring a mosaic of black box, linings and endpapers of pearl-gray box, untrimmed, gilt top, cover and spine preserved, slipcase (P.-L. Martin, 1964). Partially original edition illustrated with 25 full-page chisel engravings by Vieira da Silva. A selection of poems from *Fureur et Mystère*, *Les Matinaux*, and *La Parole en archipel*. “Pour un Prométhée saxifrage” appears here for the first time. Limited edition of 130 copies on Japanese paper. One of the 10 first copies, accompanied by two sets of engravings on vellum and Japanese paper, and an original drawing (no. 5). The original drawing in India ink, bound at the top, is full-bleed. “The book sealed […] an unclouded friendship, built on mutual admiration and affectionate gestures, between two beings as sovereign as they were different. In 1960, Char wrote the introductory text for Vieira da Silva’s exhibition at the Jeanne Bucher Gallery. Together, in January 1963, they produced a small book published by PAB, then in 1973 undertook the project that would culminate in *Sept portraits*” (Coron, *René Char*, 2007, p. 146.) A sumptuous binding adorned with a two-tone relief design by Pierre-Lucien Martin, executed with consummate skill. (Original binding, National Library, 1965, no. 312.)