QUIGNARD (Pascal). Last Kingdom: The Wandering Shadows. - About the old days. - Abyss. - The Paradisiacs. - Sordid. Paris: Grasset, [2002-2005]. - 5 volumes in-8, 189 pp., (1 f.); 310 pp., (5 ff. last blank); 262 pp., (5 ff. last blank); 292 pp., (6 ff. 2 last blanks); 266 pp., (2 f f.), printed covers. Paperbacks. Original edition of the first 5 volumes of Le Dernier royaume, a masterful work, each title of which is a collection of essays, stories, fragments of novels , translations and poems. Les Ombres errantes, which forms the first volume, was awarded the Goncourt prize the year it was published in 2002 .Le Dernier royaume now has 10 volumes, the last of which will be published in 2018; the work is still being written. Copies in head print. The first 3 volumes are part of the 50 numbered copies on pure thread vellum of Papes (n° 26) and the last 2 of the 50 numbered copies on pure thread vellum of Papeteries de Malmenayde (n° 29), the only large papers. Largely uncut copies. Volumes 2 and 3 are warped.