172 - Henri MICHAUX. *Peace in the Fragments*. Paris, Flinker, 1959.

Henri MICHAUX. *Peace in the Fragments*. Paris, Flinker, 1959. Vertical quarto, tab-bound, black box adorned on the covers with a design of silver plated metal strips, inlaid with painted nails and red dots, a mosaic design of concave-pleated metallic leather, black box linings, pearl-gray suede endpapers, untrimmed, cover and spine intact, preserved in a black calfskin box (Monique Mathieu, 2007). First edition: illustrated with a series of the author’s mescaline-inspired drawings reproduced over fourteen pages. Limited edition of 1,190 copies. “Michaux, in this tall, vertical book—designed to stand upright so as to better fall, unravel, and flow—where everything is a flow, or more accurately a ‘torrent’—offers a multitude of thoughts and sensations that assail him […]. Mescaline is there, drawing consciousness toward a super-consciousness, an accelerated state. […] Michaux has crafted a book that is visually, formally, and typographically perfect. *Peace in the Breaks* is a great book of dialogue” (Yves Peyré). One of the first 9 copies on Imperial Japan paper (no. 4), accompanied by an original drawing: it was printed especially for Maia Calliga, with this autographed dedication signed beneath the colophon: … if only peace could be distributed Henri Michaux The large, original Mescalinian drawing, in ink and signed, is one of the fourteen drawings reproduced in the book. The copy is housed in an ingenious box designed to preserve the original drawing, which is protected by a Plexiglas window in the upper flap. This is the only binding created by M. Mathieu for this edition. (Peyré, *Peinture et poésie*, pp. 156–157.—Imbert, no. 210.)