Fargue, Léon-Paul. - Rencontres. Paris: Madame Daragnès, 195 - Lot 522

Fargue, Léon-Paul. - Rencontres. Paris: Madame Daragnès, 1954. Foreword by Colette. . In-4, loose-leaf, with a red-lettered title cover, a shaped vellum spine folder with gold lettering, and the publisher’s slipcase—minor flaws along the edge of the slipcase—118 pp., [3 ff., including 2 blank pages]. Illustrated with 28 full-color woodcuts on half-pages, a double-page black-and-white drawing at the title page, and 2 black-and-white portraits engraved by A. Dunoyer de Segonzac (Fargue and Daragnès). Printed in an edition of 140 copies; one of the 130 on pure white Lana rag vellum, complete with the original gouache mentioned (no. 115). First edition and last (posthumous) work illustrated by Daragnès.