Details
4°, as issued, printed wrappers, uncut. Three original full-page etchings by Sanyu and a portrait of the poet after Hwang Shen as the frontispiece. A very fresh copy.
Total edition of 306 copies, one of 290 on Arches wove paper, n°130.
32.5 x 25.5 cm. (1234 x 10 in.
FURTHER DETAILS
SANYU (1901-1966)
Les Poèmes de T’ao Ts’ien. Paris : Editions Lemarget, 1930.
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A very fine copy of the only book illustrated by Sanyu, then a student in Paris, living in Montparnasse, where he met Brancusi, Braque, and Duchamp.
The poems of T’ao T’sien are translated by Liang Tsong Tai; the preface is by Paul Valéry.

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