Lot no. 119
[GARY (Romain)]. Émile AJAR. Pseudo. Paris, Mercure de France, 1976. In-8, light grey calf, both covers decorated with the same composition consisting of the author's name and his pseudonym, stamped on black calf and again above on a sheet of plexiglas, the whole repeated three times and framed by a piece of grey calf forming a window, untrimmed, smooth spine, silver and palladium title letters scattered along the spine, author's name stamped in blue, covers and spine, folder and slipcase (D.-H. Mercher, 1999). First edition. One of 55 copies on Arches laid paper, the only large paper (no. 55). A very fine copy in a binding inspired by Daniel-Henri Mercher.
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