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Le Coeur en fête. Poèmes de Jacques Berne

Dubuffet, Jean

Gourdon. Editions Dominique Bedou. 1984
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Edition of 11 numbered copies on vélin d'Arches including one hors commerce; copy numbered '3 / 10' and signed by Berne in ink to the justification and with Dubuffet's colour lithograph frontispiece numbered and initialled 'J. D. 83'.

'33 poèmes illustrés de 8 dessins de Jean Dubuffet, au stylo feutre noir, dont l'une orne la couverture ... clichés au trait sur papier offset par Bastin-Gouet à Bort-les-Orgues ... '. (Webel, pg. 200).

[Webel II, 1446 - 1454; see pp. 200 - 201].
[36 leaves + inserted leaf with frontispiece; pp. 64, (iii)]. 8vo. (218 x 148 mm). Half-title, printed title and Berne's verses illustrated with 7 full-page monochrome illustrations by Dubuffet (plus that for the wrapper), leaf with 'Table des Matières', final leaf with achevé d'imprimer and justification. Loose as issued in original publisher's printed wrappers with flaps, titles in red and monochrome illustration by Dubuffet to front cover.
#43591

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