55 - BUTOR, Michel. *Matière de rêves IV. Quadruple fond*.

BUTOR, Michel. *Matière de rêves IV. Quadruple fond*. First edition, enhanced with a signed autograph dedication by Michel Butor to the French poet and writer Jean-Pierre Balpe, accompanied by an origami bird folded from blue paper. Paris, Gallimard—“Le Chemin” series, 1981. In-12, paperback, white cover printed in black and red. 132 pages. First edition of the fourth volume of *Matière de rêves*, a vast, dreamlike, and hallucinatory cycle. In it, Michel Butor recounts numerous dreams conceived as “the flip side of everyday life,” which “reveal its obsessions and allow the author to describe anxieties, fixations, journeys, and family life” (publisher’s description). A rare copy enhanced with a signed autograph dedication by Michel Butor dated March 23, 1981, addressed to the French poet and writer Jean-Pierre Balpe and accompanied by a beautiful origami bird folded from blue paper. Bookplate stamped by Jean-Pierre Balpe with the motto “Balbus sed non cæcus” (stammering but not blind) and a handwritten note reading “received on 3/30/1981.” Excellent copy, in perfect condition.