Un cabinet de curiosités bibliophiliques : de Dürer à Alechinsky

Un cabinet de curiosités bibliophiliques : de Dürer à Alechinsky

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Chillida, Eduardo ─ Jorge Semprun

La Escritura o la vida. 1997. Pointe-sèche en frontispice signée. 1/100 ex.

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Livres illustrés modernes


CHILLIDA, EDUARDO ─ JORGE SEMPRUN 

La Escritura o la Vida.

Barcelone, Har-El printers & Publishers, Jaffa y Boza Editor, 1997.


Petit in-folio (384 x 285 mm). En feuilles, couverture estampée du titre en ceux, chemise et étui illustré toilés de l'éditeur.


Pointe-sèche de Chillida en frontispice, signée et numérotée par l'artiste.


Un des 100 exemplaires (n° 43) de l'édition espagnole. Signé par Jorge Semprun à la justification.


Choix de textes tirés de La escritura o la vida, livre dans lequel Semprun explique le processus par lequel il est parvenu, vingt ans après sa libération de Buchenwald en 1945, à faire de son expérience et de sa mémoire l'objet de son écriture.

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