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First edition of thse poems by the Egyptian–Jewish poet Edmond Jabès, no. 75 of 340 numbered copies (of which this is one of 300 on Alfama), presented by the author to the writer André Pieyre de Mandiargues (1909–1991) and his wife, the Surrealist artist Bona de Mandiargues (1926–2000), prominent figures in post-war avant-garde Paris.

The Italian-born French painter Bona de Mandiargues (née Tibertelli, self-fashioned ‘Bona’) was the niece and mentee of the painter Filippo de Pisis, and after the war was involved with André Breton’s circle in Paris. Her marriage dissolved three years after this copy was presented to the couple; following their separation, she notably took scissors to her ex-husband’s jackets and disassembled the linings to create textile collages which she called ‘ragarts’. She also enjoyed an ongoing artistic collaboration with Jabès, who ‘ended the days before his forced exile from Egypt by editing “Le Chemin des Sources,” a series of texts by Gabriel Bounoure, Jean Grenier, and René Char. He commissioned devices for the series and colophon of his slim brown-wrappered pamphlets “du peintre Bona”, the youthful Bona Pieyre de Mandiargues’ (Stoddard, p. 7).

Stoddard, Edmond Jabès in Bibliography 10.

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