288 - André Masson - Stéphane Mallarmé. Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard. [Paris, Les Amateurs du Livre et de l’Estampe modernes, 1961. 29 color lithographs, some double-page in size, one on the cover. Loose double-sheet prints in original cover and slipcase.

André Masson - Stéphane Mallarmé. Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard. [Paris, Les Amateurs du Livre et de l’Estampe modernes, 1961. 29 color lithographs, some double-page in size, one on the cover. Loose double-sheet prints in original cover and slipcase. Auction start time: approx. 3:42 p.m. (schedule subject to change) One of 77 subscription copies for “E. T.” (total print run 102). - Printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris, on Chiffon d’Arches. - Signed by the artist, the publisher, and the president of the bibliophile society. - Some pages bear the book club’s dry stamp. - Masson largely implemented Mallarmé’s concept that the arrangement of words on each page would convey meaning beyond mere visual interest, without slavishly adhering to the original typesetting. Saphire/Cramer 48. - Monod 7682 45.0 × 33.5 cm. [76] pages. - Glassine cover disintegrated along the spine. - Throughout with foxing. English description: “As for Mallarmé, his conceit that the placement of words on a page would convey meaning apart from any simple visual interest may be disputed, but his concept requires the typographer—or, in Masson’s case, the scribe—to respect it. Masson did this in general, without slavishly following the original typeset. His foreword explains the logic of his illustrations, written vertically in the text: Mallarmé, little inclined to illustration, nevertheless approved what Odilon Redon proposed to him. This project was the opposite of the present undertaking.“ (Saphire/Cramer, p. 124). Widespread foxing throughout. - The spine of the parchment paper cover is crumbling apart