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Deluxe-paper printing

Montparnasse and its artists, by Modiano

As issued, in the deluxe printing

Deluxe copy, as issued, from Gérard Pouguet's library

One of Modiano's masterworks — as issued

Modiano's first play, delicately illustrated by Pierre Le-Tan

Placed under the protection of Queneau, it took the sixth novel by “the most gifted writer of his generation” for Modiano to be awarded the Prix Goncourt. The jury rewarded — a rare occurrence worth noting — the writer's body of work as a whole, which by then appeared to reflect a constant impulse toward…

A fine provenance: Hélène Rochas, with whom Modiano was on close terms.This “queen of perfumes,” with a passion for white flowers, presided for five decades over literary afternoons and society evenings at her garden apartment on rue Barbet-de-Jouy, where postwar Tout-Paris — from Cocteau to Dalí — passed through, later succeeded in more recent years…