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Dans la Chaleur Vacante

Giacometti, Alberto. Bouchet, André du

(Paris). Mercure de France. 1961
An excellent copy of André du Bouchet's verse collection with Giacometti's signed portrait of the poet as frontispiece.

From the edition limited to 520 numbered copies with this one of the first 70 on vergé d'Auvergne à la main du moulin Richard-de-Bas with Giacometti's signed original etching as frontispiece.

Giacometti's original etching, signed in pencil at lower right, is a portrait of the poet André du Bouchet.

Giacometti had provided an etching for du Bouchet's earlier 'Le Moteur Blanc' (GLM, 1956) appearing to show the poet's desk or the floor of a studio covered in canvases. 'Le Moteur Blanc' is also included in this collection together with other verse, some not previously published. 'Dans la Chaleur Vacante' also includes 'Sol de la Montagne', 'Au Deuxième Etage', 'Face de la Chaleur', 'Sur le Pas' and 'Cession'. The collection received the 'Prix de la Critique' in 1961, the year of publication.

[Lust 107].
8vo. (206 x 144 mm). Half-title, leaf with Giacometti's signed original etching as frontispiece verso, printed title with justification and copyright verso, section title and du Bouchet's verse in seven sections, leaf with 'Table' and final leaf with achevé d'imprimer and printer's credit verso. Original publisher's printed wrappers with titles and publisher's vignette to front cover and titles to spine in black.
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