Les commencements
€700.00
Les commencements is a late, restrained Michaux book where language probes fresh starts in a halting, breathing cadence. The deluxe red-morocco binding (Miguet) frames a deliberately spare text that lets white space speak. Fata Morgana’s precise typography and intimate scale give the voice full air. As the édition originale, this copy belongs to the scarce head issue on vélin pur fil. The theme of beginnings aligns with Michaux’s inquiry into perception and the body of language. Material care and finish underline its bibliophile nature. An exemplary meeting of text, layout and the art of binding.
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Michaux, Henri
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Les commencements
1983 | Montpellier | Fata Morgana
A luxurious head copy of the original edition, bound by Miguet and very well preserved. A rare alliance of textual concentration and material perfection.
Les commencements is a late, restrained Michaux book where language probes fresh starts in a halting, breathing cadence. The deluxe red-morocco binding (Miguet) frames a deliberately spare text that lets white space speak. Fata Morgana’s precise typography and intimate scale give the voice full air. As the édition originale, this copy belongs to the scarce head issue on vélin pur fil. The theme of beginnings aligns with Michaux’s inquiry into perception and the body of language. Material care and finish underline its bibliophile nature. An exemplary meeting of text, layout and the art of binding.
€700
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In-8 (Octavo) approx. 20 × 26 cm
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One of 75 head copies on vélin pur fil.
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75
Copy Number
41
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Vélin pur fil
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Brief segments start, recoil and shift; a laboratory of overtures and breaks. A deliberately simple register foregrounds rhythm and pause. Material care—paper, setting, binding—mirrors the voice’s precision. With no illustrations, typography and silence carry the work. The late Michaux sounds here: concentrated, spare, exact.
Michaux, Henri
Choix de poèmes
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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€700
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Moments
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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€960
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Les ravagés
Les ravagés is a late, taut volume in which Michaux probes inner devastation through brief, charged passages. The taupe box-calf Jansenist binding—plain, unadorned—mirrors the text’s austerity and lends the bibliophile object a quiet weight. Fata Morgana’s lucid typography respects the prose’s breathing. As the édition originale, this copy belongs to the very scarce head issue on Arches. The slipcase by Miguet confirms the material care. An intense work where wound, recovery, and interior mapping are handled with surgical poise.
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€650
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Bras cassé
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.
