JABÈS, Edmond.

Trois filles de mon quartier. [Paris], G. L. M., [1948].

Small 8vo, pp. [6], XXIV, [6]; a fine copy, uncut in the original printed wrappers.

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Trois filles de mon quartier.

First edition: one of 340 numbered copies, of which this is one of 15 on vélin du Marais.

Stoddard, Edmond Jabès in Bibliography, 10.

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JABÈS, Edmond.

Trois filles de mon quartier. [Paris], G. L. M., [1948].