Lettrines — Lettrines 2
€700.00
In Lettrines and Lettrines 2, Julien Gracq gathers notes, travel shards, and reader’s margins into a mosaic of brilliant short essays. Both volumes were issued by his long-time publisher José Corti, a partnership dating back to the 1940s. Landscapes, books, and memory are distilled into taut, luminous paragraphs. For bibliophiles they are intimate documents from a writer who made the notebook a genre. This set brings together the FIRST EDITIONS. The copy of volume two bears a warm presentation. As a pair they form a poised, personal ensemble that makes the proximity of author, publisher, and reader tangible.
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Gracq, Julien
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Lettrines — Lettrines 2
1967 | Paris | Jose Corti
A poised pair in original state, volume II from a limited issue, distinguished by a signed presentation.
In Lettrines and Lettrines 2, Julien Gracq gathers notes, travel shards, and reader’s margins into a mosaic of brilliant short essays. Both volumes were issued by his long-time publisher José Corti, a partnership dating back to the 1940s. Landscapes, books, and memory are distilled into taut, luminous paragraphs. For bibliophiles they are intimate documents from a writer who made the notebook a genre. This set brings together the FIRST EDITIONS. The copy of volume two bears a warm presentation. As a pair they form a poised, personal ensemble that makes the proximity of author, publisher, and reader tangible.
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In-12 (Duodecimo) approx. 17 × 22 cm
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Copy with author’s signed presentation to Claude Couffon in volume two.
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The two volumes offer snapshots—observations of places, writers, and recurring motifs—often born of travel and reading. Gracq writes with a cartographer’s eye and supple, image-rich prose. Geology and geography, the spell of names, the afterglow of reading, and an aesthetics of delay and detour recur. These short pieces echo his novels and criticism while preserving their own free-breathing cadence. Taken together they sketch a discreet self-portrait of a writer who thinks in landscapes.
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