Lot no. 215
PAZ (Octavio). Reading and contemplation. Translated from the Spanish by Jean-Caude Masson. Paris, La Délirante, 1982. In-8, leaves, illustrated cover, slipcase. First edition of the translation, illustrated with a drypoint by Gérard Barthélémy as a frontispiece. Edition of 100 copies, 25 of which include a signed large-margin proof of the frontispiece, this copy 21/100 signed at the colophon by Octavio Paz and Gérard Barthélémy with a separate large-margin proof of the drypoint on Arches vellum, justified 21/25 and signed in pencil by the artist.
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