MICHAUX (Henri).
Meidosems.
Paris : Éditions du point du jour, 1948. - In-8, 248 x 191: (1 blank f.), 95 pp, (3 ff. last two blank), 1 plate, illustrated cover. In sheets, filled cover, laced cardboard folder and publisher's slipcase. 

First edition of the first and most important book of painter by Henri MICHAUX (1899-1984). It includes twelve original lithographs, eleven full-page and one double-page out-of-text, as well as a cover lithographed by the author.

This work is fundamental in Michaux's work because it contains his very first lithographs, the only ones he made on stone.

Edition at 297 copies; one of 276 on Johannot paper, and more precisely one of the twenty-six hors commerce on this paper, reserved for the author's friends and publishers.

A very well preserved copy.
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MICHAUX (Henri). Meidosems. Paris : Éditions du point du jour, 1948. - In-8, 248 x 191: (1 blank f.), 95 pp, (3 ff. last two blank), 1 plate, illustrated cover. In sheets, filled cover, laced cardboard folder and publisher's slipcase. First edition of the first and most important book of painter by Henri MICHAUX (1899-1984). It includes twelve original lithographs, eleven full-page and one double-page out-of-text, as well as a cover lithographed by the author. This work is fundamental in Michaux's work because it contains his very first lithographs, the only ones he made on stone. Edition at 297 copies; one of 276 on Johannot paper, and more precisely one of the twenty-six hors commerce on this paper, reserved for the author's friends and publishers. A very well preserved copy.

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MICHAUX (Henri). Meidosems. Paris : Éditions du point du jour, 1948. - In-8, 248 x 191: (1 blank f.), 95 pp, (3 ff. last two blank), 1 plate, illustrated cover. In sheets, filled cover, laced cardboard folder and publisher's slipcase. First edition of the first and most important book of painter by Henri MICHAUX (1899-1984). It includes twelve original lithographs, eleven full-page and one double-page out-of-text, as well as a cover lithographed by the author. This work is fundamental in Michaux's work because it contains his very first lithographs, the only ones he made on stone. Edition at 297 copies; one of 276 on Johannot paper, and more precisely one of the twenty-six hors commerce on this paper, reserved for the author's friends and publishers. A very well preserved copy.
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