127 - Henri MICHAUX. Voyage en Grande Garabagne. Paris, Gallimard, 1936.

Henri MICHAUX. Voyage en Grande Garabagne. Paris, Gallimard, 1936. In-12, paperback, green cloth slipcase with green morocco title label. First edition: one of the extremely rare six head copies on imperial Japanese paper (No. II). The first volume in the *Métamorphoses* collection edited by Jean Paulhan, the collection contains 31 texts, as well as an introduction that has not been republished. The first imaginary travel book influenced by Swift and Kafka. “The conception of *Voyage en Grande Garabagne* may well constitute the most tumultuous episode in Michaux’s literary career” (Raymond Bellour, *Michaux*, *Pléiade*, II, p. 1054). A preserved paperback copy. Spine slightly faded. (Imbert, no. 69.—Connolly, *100 Key Books of Modern Literature*, no. 83.)