La table
€610.00
In La table, Ponge returns to his emblematic focus on the everyday object, here in a pared-back form. The text unfolds as a moving thought around top, legs and use, at once concrete and conceptual. The voice is precise, rough-grained and sensuous, with Ponge’s characteristic prose-poetic cadence. Published in 1982 by Éditions du Silence in a bibliophile setting that underscores the project’s sobriety. Ample margins and Japan paper invite slow, tactile reading. This copy belongs to the head issue while retaining the fragile elegance of wrappers.
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Ponge, Francis
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La table
1982 | Montreal | Éditions du Silence
A rare, pared edition presenting Ponge’s method in its most concrete guise. Head issue on Japan paper and the signature heighten the copy’s singularity. A key piece for collectors of the object-poem.
In La table, Ponge returns to his emblematic focus on the everyday object, here in a pared-back form. The text unfolds as a moving thought around top, legs and use, at once concrete and conceptual. The voice is precise, rough-grained and sensuous, with Ponge’s characteristic prose-poetic cadence. Published in 1982 by Éditions du Silence in a bibliophile setting that underscores the project’s sobriety. Ample margins and Japan paper invite slow, tactile reading. This copy belongs to the head issue while retaining the fragile elegance of wrappers.
€610
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In-4 (Quarto) approx. 25 × 32 cm
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One of 60 numbered copies on Carlyle Japan; signed in pencil; ex. from the library of Jacques Dauchez.
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60
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29
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Carlyle Japan
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The book is a concentrated meditation on a piece of furniture that organizes our relation to space. Ponge dissects material, functions and metaphors, revealing a tactile vocabulary. Sentences assemble like board and screw; rhythm grows from reprise and variation. The table becomes both object and stage, instrument and metaphor for thought and gathering. The prose is lucid yet resistant, asking for slowness.
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In Choix de poèmes, Michaux’s poetic trajectory is gathered into a compact, portable compass. This édition originale collective was issued by NRF in 1976; the present copy is from the minute head issue of fifteen on vélin pur fil. Miguet’s sober Havana-morocco binding, with panelled frame, marries elegance to rigor—akin to a voice moving between vision and observation. The selection shows the steady pursuit of inner landscapes and linguistic shock. For bibliophiles, luxury paper, original state and atelier binding make a persuasive triad. Provenance from Jacques Dauchez provides a discreet, eloquent seal.
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Moments is a late, compact Michaux volume where language probes time in brief surges and pauses. The grey-buffalo Jansenist binding—by Miguet—frames the spare layout and lets the text’s rhythm breathe. The title points to flashes of consciousness: halts, starts, reprises. As the édition originale in NRF’s “Le Point du Jour” series, the book exemplifies postwar bibliophile exactitude: precise setting, generous white, tactile paper. This copy is from the very small head issue on vergé de Hollande. The binding’s discreet elegance heightens reading focus.
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Bras cassé is a compact, scarce edition in which Michaux’s taut prose-poetry uses bodily fracture as a thinking figure. Issued as loose sheets, the book encourages a fragmentary, rhythmic reading—each page an autonomous pulse. Fata Morgana’s restrained typography conducts rather than dampens the intensity. This is the original 1973 edition, with an exceedingly small head issue on Japan paper. Treille’s chemise and slipcase frame the work as an artist’s object. A model bibliophile format where material and voice converge.
