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a wooden book with chinese writing on itthe front cover of a book with a red design on ita book open on a white surface with a red stamp on it
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89 - SEGALEN (VICTOR)
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Estimate €250 - €300
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Description
SEGALEN (VICTOR) Stèles. Pei-King, Presses du Pei-T’ang, 1914. In-8 volume in folio (288 x 142 mm), accordion-folded, cream paper cover (tattered and pitted with traces of adhesive tape, title label missing), bound between wooden boards engraved with the title in Chinese and French, held together by yellow laces. Second wooden board split in two. 7 full-page reproductions of Chinese calligraphy, Chinese ideograms in the text, 3 Chinese seals in red ink. Paper warped. Second edition, partly original. Print run of 640 copies; no. 227 of 570 on felted laid paper. First edition available in bookshops, expanded to include 16 ‘steles’ and the lengthy explanation of the layout, which had not appeared in the rare first edition of 1912. ‘The “stele” form adopted arose from a striking analogy between the stone tablets scattered throughout China and the “ short, dense prose pieces” that he proposed to write even before he had seen them. “ (In French in the text, no. 340).
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About the sale Charity sale in aid of the Petits Frères Des Pauvres charity
Auction location
Auction time 10/25/2026 at 10:00 AM
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Boisgirard Antonini
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