Moments
€960.00
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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Moments
1973 | Paris | Nrf Gallimard
A rare head copy on vergé de Hollande in a superbly restrained Miguet binding. Concentrated text and material, excellently preserved.
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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In-8 (Octavo) approx. 20 × 26 cm
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One of 36 head copies on vergé de Hollande.
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36
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3
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Vergé de Hollande
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Brief, charged paragraphs alternate onset and halt; time appears as instants, not continuum. The page is spare and musical, white space speaking. With no illustration, rhythm, breath and timbre carry the work. Observations sit close to skin and nerve, in Michaux’s economical register. The result is a concentrated path that makes one read in micro-movements.
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