DURAS (Marguerite). La Maladie de la mort. -... Lot 743

DURAS (Marguerite). La Maladie de la mort. - La Pute de la côte normande. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, [1982-1986]. -2 works in 2 in-12 volumes, 188 x 140 and 184 x 115: 60 pp. (2 ff.), printed cover; 19 pp. (2 ff. first blank), printed cover. Black oasis, boards with two vertical grooves, one decorated with a small white calf listel, the other entirely inlaid with white calf, author's name and title in white letters on the first boards, smooth spines, white suede lining and endpapers, untrimmed, covers and spines preserved, special slipcase with black morocco spine and small bands, including inside a compartment for each book, bordered by a white calf listel coming continuously from those on the volumes (N. Berjon 2007). First edition of these 2 works by Marguerite Duras. One of 106 copies on Arches vellum for the first title (no. 10) and one of 106 on Lana chiffon vellum for the second (no. 70), the only large paper editions. Copies remarkably bound by Nathalie Berjon in 2006, preserved in a special compartmented slipcase.