23. ARAGON (Louis).
Cantique à Elsa. Alger, Éditions de la Revue Fontaine, 1942, in-8, gray morocco, smooth spine, gilt author and title throughout, mosaic boards in a large ivory box rectangle, spiderweb decoration of gilt fillets framing the board leaving an oval in the center, author and title on the first in gilt letters, gilt head on brochure, cover and spine preserved, folder, case (P.-L. Martin, 1961).
First edition.
1/20 copies on Ingres (n° T), first paper.
Letter from Louis Aragon
"To Pierre Consten,
Always the same words at the end of romances
As the same words began them
Aragon" (in blue ink)
Below, Elsa's signature (in black ink).
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€4,500
Buyer's premium
27%
23. ARAGON (Louis).
Cantique à Elsa. Alger, Éditions de la Revue Fontaine, 1942, in-8, gray morocco, smooth spine, gilt author and title throughout, mosaic boards in a large ivory box rectangle, spiderweb decoration of gilt fillets framing the board leaving an oval in the center, author and title on the first in gilt letters, gilt head on brochure, cover and spine preserved, folder, case (P.-L. Martin, 1961).
First edition.
1/20 copies on Ingres (n° T), first paper.
Letter from Louis Aragon
"To Pierre Consten,
Always the same words at the end of romances
As the same words began them
Aragon" (in blue ink)
Below, Elsa's signature (in black ink).