André MALRAUX (1901-1976). L.A.S., Boulogne s/Seine Thursday [1952] to Félix Garas; 2 pages in-8 addressed to him. 
Corrected proofs with note a.s. enclosed.

On the publication of the first volume of Musée Imaginaire on sculpture. "When returning the good sheets to me, please do not fail to point out the photos that you retain". He indicated in the margin those directly related to the text, and asked that he be sent "the title (not the morasse, the project) [...] I think the simplest thing would be an over-title saying 'This week appears the first imaginary museum of world[ial] sculpture', or 'A M. publie etc..."; underneath, the real title, which is l'Insaisissable; some kind of chapeau, even a very short one, to explain what it's about; in this chapeau, a *; and at the bottom, the reminder of the * with simply: Gallimard éditeur. The important thing is that the text be published as an unpublished fragment of a book whose title is quoted, not as a whole foreign to that book."
Corrected proofs with note a.s. are enclosed.Bon à tirer après corrections / André Malraux / 23 septembre 1974" of his preface to Bernanos' Journal d'un curé de campagne (22 p. in-8).
Malraux's text accompanies the novel's reissue by Plon, and bears numerous typographical corrections in blue or red pen and pencil.
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André MALRAUX (1901-1976). L.A.S., Boulogne s/Seine Thursday [1952] to Félix Garas; 2 pages in-8 addressed to him. Corrected proofs with note a.s. enclosed. On the publication of the first volume of Musée Imaginaire on sculpture. "When returning the good sheets to me, please do not fail to point out the photos that you retain". He indicated in the margin those directly related to the text, and asked that he be sent "the title (not the morasse, the project) [...] I think the simplest thing would be an over-title saying 'This week appears the first imaginary museum of world[ial] sculpture', or 'A M. publie etc..."; underneath, the real title, which is l'Insaisissable; some kind of chapeau, even a very short one, to explain what it's about; in this chapeau, a *; and at the bottom, the reminder of the * with simply: Gallimard éditeur. The important thing is that the text be published as an unpublished fragment of a book whose title is quoted, not as a whole foreign to that book." Corrected proofs with note a.s. are enclosed.Bon à tirer après corrections / André Malraux / 23 septembre 1974" of his preface to Bernanos' Journal d'un curé de campagne (22 p. in-8). Malraux's text accompanies the novel's reissue by Plon, and bears numerous typographical corrections in blue or red pen and pencil.

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André MALRAUX (1901-1976). L.A.S., Boulogne s/Seine Thursday [1952] to Félix Garas; 2 pages in-8 addressed to him. Corrected proofs with note a.s. enclosed. On the publication of the first volume of Musée Imaginaire on sculpture. "When returning the good sheets to me, please do not fail to point out the photos that you retain". He indicated in the margin those directly related to the text, and asked that he be sent "the title (not the morasse, the project) [...] I think the simplest thing would be an over-title saying 'This week appears the first imaginary museum of world[ial] sculpture', or 'A M. publie etc..."; underneath, the real title, which is l'Insaisissable; some kind of chapeau, even a very short one, to explain what it's about; in this chapeau, a *; and at the bottom, the reminder of the * with simply: Gallimard éditeur. The important thing is that the text be published as an unpublished fragment of a book whose title is quoted, not as a whole foreign to that book." Corrected proofs with note a.s. are enclosed.Bon à tirer après corrections / André Malraux / 23 septembre 1974" of his preface to Bernanos' Journal d'un curé de campagne (22 p. in-8). Malraux's text accompanies the novel's reissue by Plon, and bears numerous typographical corrections in blue or red pen and pencil.
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