Les Bêtes suivi de Le Temps des morts
Paris, Gallimard, (December 8) 1953.
1 vol. (120 x 190 mm) of 289 p. and [3] f. In wrappers, uncut, in a box.
Post-Goncourt edition.
One of the first 11 hors commerce copies on vélin de Hollande, this one nominative for Raymond Queneau (no. J).
Signed presentation inscription: “Pour Monsieur Raymond Queneau, avec mon admiration, ma reconnaissance, ma sympathie. Pierre Gascar.”
One of the first 11 hors commerce copies on vélin de Hollande, this one nominative for Raymond Queneau (no. J).
Signed presentation inscription: “Pour Monsieur Raymond Queneau, avec mon admiration, ma reconnaissance, ma sympathie. Pierre Gascar.”
For the customary post-Goncourt printing reserved for the author and members of the Académie Goncourt, Gallimard combined Gascar’s two collections into one, in an especially confidential collected edition, in addition to a commercial edition and one in Bonet boards.
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