PRASSINOS (Mario) - QUENEAU (Raymond). - Lot 203

PRASSINOS (Mario) - QUENEAU (Raymond). L'Instant fatal, in six poems. [Paris] : Aux Nourritures terrestres, 1946. - In-4, 331 x 254 : (20 ff. 2 first, 17th and 2 last blanks), 15 plates, illustrated cover. In sheets, filled cover, editor's folder and case. Original edition of this collection of six poems by Raymond Queneau, illustrated with 16 original etchings by Mario PRASSINOS (1916-1985), one on the cover and 15 off-text. Edition of 250 numbered copies. One of the 215 on pure rag paper by Lana containing a suite in first state of the fifteen etchings (n° 81). A poem by Queneau cut out of a newspaper was placed between folios 11 and 12, on which it has rubbed off in several places. Damaged case with no missing parts.