[First copy with binding by Pierre-Lucien Martin].— GRACQ (J - Lot 129

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[First copy with binding by Pierre-Lucien Martin].— GRACQ (J - Lot 129
[First copy with binding by Pierre-Lucien Martin].— GRACQ (Julien). *Un balcon en forêt*. Paris, Librairie José Corti, 1958, in-12, full English green box leather with frame, covers stamped with large veined and umbelliferous leaves, author and title gilt on smooth spine, gilt edges, inner covers edged and filleted in gold, green suede endpapers and linings, yellow cover and spine preserved, slipcase in half-box English green with bands and flaps, lined with green suede, slipcase edged and dotted (binding signed P.-L. Martin, 1977). First edition printed in a run of 408 copies; no. 1/50, printed on Rives vellum, with an inscription: "To Mr. Raymond Hoffsummer / these memories—highly transposed—/ of a phantom war / A tribute from the author / Julien Gracq / March 19, 1985." A very fine copy in a unique binding by Pierre-Lucien Martin (1913–1985), in which the pages engraved into the leather embody the “forest curtain”—omnipresent in the narrative—that isolates the soldiers from the rest of the world and transforms nature into a character in its own right.
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