Advertisement in French for a hair salon pasted on back free endpaper. Spine of vol. repaired with green paper and written in ms.: Manual of conversation., Table of coins on back lining papers., and Thomas Hardy's copy. Signed in ms.: T. Hardy, 1 Arundel Terrace, Upper Tooting, England. Signed in ms.: Hardy, Wimborne, Dorset, England. Extensive ms. annotations by Hardy. Pasted on front pastedown: booklet with ms. annotations of translated phrases. Newspaper clipping about hotels in Europe pasted on t.p. Newspaper clipping about food prices in Europe pasted at end.
Publisher:
Karl Baedeker,
Subject (Name):
Hardy, Thomas,--1840-1928--Autograph., Hardy, Thomas,--1840-1928--Ms. notes., and Karl Baedeker (Firm)
"Il a été tiré de cette image, 10 exemplaires sur aluminium anodisé numérotés de I à X et 90 exemplaires sur papier mécanographique transparent numérotés de 1 à 90. Le tout constituant une édition originale"--Colophon., "Le modèle de cette image approximative est l'édition originale du poème 'Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard' de Stéphane Mallarmé, publié en 1914 par la librairie Gallimard"--Colophon., Comprises 30 leaves of translucent paper. Includes 5 blank leaves, not counted in collation: 2 at beginning and one at end, and one preceding and one following "Préface." The bars representing the poem are printed on alternate pairs of opposite pages, but are visible in reverse on the intervening blank pages., Cover title., From the library of Michel Foucault., Issued in white paper covers, printed in black and red., and The poem by Mallarmé is printed in typographically compressed format as "Préface," leaves [2-3]. The "image" on leaves [4-23] consists of bars representing the typography of the original edition of the poem, which was published in 1914 by Éditions de la Nouvelle revue française and subsequently reprinted by Gallimard.
Publisher:
Galerie Michael Werner, and Galerie Wide White Space ;