GRACQ (Julien). Preferences. Paris: José Corti, [1961]. - In-8, 182 x 112: 252 pp., (2 ff. last blank), printed cover. Bordeaux box, green morocco strip framed on the covers, smooth spine, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (modern binding). Largely original edition of this collection containing the majority of Julien Gracq's essays published between 1947 and 1960, including La littérature à l'estomac. ONE OF THE 75 EXAMPLES OF LAFUMA WIRE HEAD ON PURE WIRE ( No. 73). Copy in modern binding, with some defects of execution.