Miomandre Grau Sala Written Onto Water No. 3/20 Original Drawing Board Denied

  
Francis de Miomandre, writes on the water, with engravings to water-strong Grau Sala, Paris, Emile-Paul brothers, 1947. In sheets under illustrated cover, cover and nesting editor. Cover, color frontispiece, 30 blue illustrations in the text: 15 brass in full screen +15 header.

All brass, in connection with the title of louvrage, are drawn in shades of blue: midnight blue, electric blue, ultramarine, indigo, navy, sapphire. Limited to 400 numbered: 50 on wove darches 1 to 50 and 350 on wove lana 51 to 400. It has been joined to the first 20 an original drawing, a sequence in a first state and the state after the final, the 30 following a suite.

Our copy is the No. It contains the colophon as advertised. One original drawing Pen lencre.

Signed in red, by hand, by Grau sala. This location is an original drawing of the fourth board, p. 1 suite in first state of 31 engravings. 1 Following the state final of 31 engravings. A board denied with the note.

\Signature Hand of Grau Sala. Gray pencil, not reported to the colophon. Written on water was released in 1908, to account dauteur, five hundred copies by Marseille house fire, led by Emile sicard.

The novel was awarded the same year by the price goncourt face Henri barbusse, amédée Rouques Violis and jeans. When the verdict was signed by the hand of Léon Hennique, president of the academy, there remained five hundred copies dozen small quune which sold within an hour.

Sicard and his printer, rushed out paris decided to drown the booksellers in the new edition of this goncourt unexpected. But poorly equipped and so happy to discover the charms and pleasures of the capital to which they melted, they found not the time for this reprint.

When finally the volumes out of the press, it was too late. Miomandre admit, with no regrets and no hard feelings, putting more than seven years to sell three thousand copies he had planned for his glory. The novel invites us to follow over the sentimental lapprentissage water the young Jacques de Meillan (alter ego Francis de Miomandre) in Marseille Early dawn of the twentieth. The theme is playful and writing, light and without any boursoufflure style liberates its reading an outdated and wispy charm.

Sort of little praise to the youth and the love of a young man whose sap runs through the body and mind desires bubbling. In the foreword, Miomandre and warned his readers of the time: \That you open in the middle, it will be as intelligible you that if you addressed the first chapter. Like an eternity, it has no beginning or end, but it is shorter. \André Gide puzzled in the new French journal note about writing on water \Light as a bubble, inconsistent, bizarre, it shifts under criticism and seems constantly training.

It might be unbearable; he is charming. Exceptional in excellent condition overall. Lavish illustrations and original signed drawing Grau Sala.

Sending very neat, with insurance and tracking, worldwide. The ad's illustration of photos show the three states of selection boards and 4 states that for the original drawing in ink. The item \The seller is \This article can be shipped worldwide.

1. Special features: deluxe edition <\/ li>
2. changed object: yes <\/ li>
3. era: 1900-1960 <\/ li>
4. binding: flexible cover <\/ li>
5. signed: yes <\/ li>
6. Publish name: Emile-Paul brothers <\/ li>
7. description of the amendment: dune board copy also refused enriched with \
8. weight 3 <\/ li>
9. Language: French <\/ li>
10. place of publication: Paris <\/ li>
11. author: Francis de Miomandre / emilio Grau Sala <\/ li>
12. topic: illustrated books <\/ li>
13. Custom: yes <\/ li>
14. publication date: 1947 <\/ li>
15. Name: Written on Water <\/ li>
16. Number of pages: 266 <\/ li> <\/ Ul>