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YOURCENAR (MARGUERITE)
Les charités d'Alcippe & autres poëmes ornés d'un dessin d'Aristide Maillol, NUMBER 152 OF 400 COPIES from an overall edition of 860 copies, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on half-title "à Allan [sic] Pryce Jones/ hommages sympathiques/ Marguerite Yourcenar", frontispiece by Maillol, with the errors listed in tipped-in errata leaf corrected by hand, original publisher's copy number slip loosely inserted, publisher's patterned wrappers with title label on upper cover, soiled at edges, some tears to spine, Liège, La Flûte enchantée [Alexis Curvers], 1956--COCTEAU (JEAN) Clair-obscur. Poèmes, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on half-title "à Alan Pryce Jones avec le salut amical de Jean Cocteau. 1954", browned at edges, publisher's wrappers, soiling to spine and edges, Monaco, Éditions du Rocher, 1954, FIRST EDITIONS, 8vo (2)
Two presentation copies, including the rare first edition of Yourcenar's Les charités d'Alcippe, withdrawn from commerce at the request of the author after she found printing errors.
Provenance: Alan Pryce-Jones (1908–2000); by descent to the present owner.
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YOURCENAR (MARGUERITE) Les charités d'Alcippe & autres poëmes ornés d'un dessin d'Aristide Maillol, NUMBER 152 OF 400 COPIES from an overall edition of 860 copies, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on…
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- Lot #
- 125
- Currency
- GBP
- Location
- London, GB
- Lot Ends
- 3 Dec 2026, 15:04:00
- Auction Ends
- 3 Dec 2026, 16:47:00
- Auction Started
- 23 Nov 2026
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