L’Automne à Pékin
Paris - Éditions du Scorpion - 1947
- Bookbinder : A. DEVAUCHELLE-2001.
- Format : In-12.
- Number of volumes : 1 volume.
- Binding : Hardcover.
- Collation : 317 pp.
In bordered slipcase and half-box folder with small overlaps. Bound in half horizontal old pink and orange box. Smooth spine with long author. On the upper cover, 4 rounded listels separate three vertical box banderoles bearing the title of the book in orientalizing characters; same decoration on the lower cover without letters. All edges gilt. Blue suede lining and endpapers. Illustrated cover and spine preserved. Binding signed A. DEVAUCHELLE-2001. Washed copy.
ORIGINAL EDITION for which no large-format paper was printed. The story's protagonists travel to Exopotamia, a desert region invented by Vian. Their adventures are interspersed with several "passages", in which the narrator-author comments on the action.
Very fine condition.
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