Lot no. 419
Raymond QUENEAU, "Cent mille milliards de poèmes", Gallimard, Paris, 1982.
Reissue of Raymond Queneau's iconic work, originally published in 1961, conceived as a machine for generating poetry. Each page is cut into 14 horizontal strips, making it possible to compose 100,000 billion different sonnets from 10 poems written according to the same rhyme schemes and metrical structures.
In-4, bound in white cloth with transparent rhodoid, as in the original edition.
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20th century Antique art and decorative objects
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