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Alain BOSQUET. Painted words. Original engravings...

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Alain BOSQUET. Painted words. Original engravings by Max Ernst, Jacques Hérold, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Dorothea Tanning. Paris, Éditions Galerie Diderot [Marcel Zerbib], 1959. In-folio, paperback, filled printed cover, publisher's case in grey half-toile with laces containing, inserted in the first plate under paper cover, the continuation of the engravings. Original edition: 21 poems by Alain Bosquet, including one printed on the cover. The illustration includes 10 original etchings by Max Ernst, Jacques Hérold, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Dorothea Tanning. Limited edition of 69 copies: one of the 12 reimposed on japan Kazo à la forme (nº VII), containing 10 original etchings in signed colours and a suite of the same etchings with large margins, signed. Copy enriched with all the autograph poems signed and recopied by the author, two of them with variants.