Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Genevoix, Maurice. Barret, Gaston. La Boîte à Pêche. Eaux-fortes originales de Gaston Barret.

With 22 (1 double-page) coloured etchings incl. front wrapper and 19 wood-engr. head pieces by G. Barret. 307, (13) pp. incl. blank ones at the end. Large 4to. Loose qures as issued in orig. illus. wrappers, cardboard sleeve and slipcase. – Paris, Vialetay, 1957.

One of 20 copies on Rives paper (no. 43) of a total limited trade edition of 250 (+ 130 for the “Beaux Livres, Grands Amis” society), signed in the colophon by the author and the illustrator. Complete with an additional signed watercolour, an extra suite in colour on Rives, an extra suite of the uncoloured etchings on Japan paper, an extra suite printed in brown with pictorial supplements engr. on the plate, and an extra suite with the head-pieces on China paper. – Monod 5250. – Silpcase with some tears to edges, else a fine copy. – Best.-Nr. 15731