JABÈS, Edmond.

Le Livre des Questions.

[Paris], Gallimard, [1963]. 8vo, pp. 199; S[ervice de] P[resse] copy with perforated initials to back cover and final two leaves; a very good copy, uncut in the original printed wrappers, spine and covers slightly darkened. First edition. This is the first of what was to become a series of seven books under this title published between 1963 and 1973: ‘the centrepiece of Jabès’s oeuvre’ (Stoddard). 20 numbered copies were printed on pur fil; ours is one of the unnumbered copies on ordinary paper.With a signed presentation inscription on half title to the French philosopher Ferdinand Alquié (1906-85): ‘A Ferdinand Alquié, En témoignage de haute estime, E. Jabès’.Stoddard, Edmond Jabès in Bibliography, 20.

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