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a close up of a black book with dots on itan open book with a picture of a bird on ita piece of paper with handwriting on it sitting on top of a tablean image of a piece of paper with writing on itan image of a black and red case with red stitching on ita black and red notebook with a dotted design on the cover
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70 - Paul ÉLUARD. *Le Phénix*, with eighteen drawings by Valentin…
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Estimate €2,000 - €3,000
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Paul ÉLUARD. *Le Phénix*, with eighteen drawings by Valentine Hugo. Paris, GLM, 1951. Large 8vo, soft binding with gold fastenings, black goatskin with a pattern of silver leather medallions and gold dots hot-stamped, on the spine a secondary stitching of ten gold fastenings on wooden plates, linings in black goatskin, endpapers in untrimmed red lambskin, gilt headband, cover and spine preserved, slipcase (Sün Evrard). First edition: illustrated with 18 line drawings by Valentine Hugo. Printed in a run of 1,425 copies. (Coron, Les Éditions GLM, bibliography, no. 349.) One of the 25 first-edition copies on Arches vellum (no. 23), signed by Paul Éluard and Valentine Hugo. Two autograph poems signed by Paul Éluard have been bound at the end: -‘Dominique aujourd’hui présente’. A signed autograph manuscript of 2½ pages, quarto, with a few autograph corrections. -Autograph drafts, signed, of fourteen lines from *Écrire dessiner inscrire*, with crossings-out and corrections. 1 page, in-4. The beautiful binding by S. Evrard was completed in 2014. The illustrations have been reproduced on the facing pages.
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About the sale Henri Michaux, the Sven Pitsey collection
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Auction time 10/29/2026 at 2:00 PM
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