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92 - CLAUDEL, Paul. Connaissance de l'Est.
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Estimate €300 - €400
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CLAUDEL, Paul. Connaissance de l'Est. An elegant and refined Chinese-style edition, edited by Victor Segalen, of the great collection of prose poems that Claudel composed in China. Beijing, Presses du Pei-T’ang for Georges Crès, 1914. 2 narrow in-4 volumes, with visible blue thread stitching in the Chinese style, beige paper covers, in a publisher’s blue silk slipcase with ivory fastenings. 226 pp. Two minor scuffs on the first volume; a few marks on the slipcase. Third edition, embellished with 61 initials in red and black, published as part of Georges Crès’s Korean collection, edited by the writer and sinologist Victor Segalen. One of 570 numbered copies on laid paper. In fine condition.
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