CHAR (René). Van Gogh's Neighbours. Paris, Gallimard, 1985. Small in-4, paperback, uncut. First edition. One of 155 first copies on Arches satiné, the only ones with a frontispiece in colour by Alexandre Gaspérine signed by the artist. Autograph signed letter from René Char: Exemplaire de Claude Couffon. "Pression des chances sur les blés..." (Pressure of the odds on the wheat...) (incipit of L'Invitée de Montguers, p. 29). An envelope with five autograph lines is enclosed. Poet and translator Claude Couffon (1926-2013) played a major role in bringing Spanish and Latin American writers such as Camilo José Cela and Gabriel García Márquez to the attention of French readers.