Georges BATAILLE.

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Georges BATAILLE.
History of Rats (Diary of Dianus). With three etchings by Alberto Giacometti. Paris, Éditions de Minuit, 1947. In-8 : black half calf à la Bradel, smooth spine, plexiglass boards on a three-tone painted background, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, case (Mercher, 1959). First edition: illustrated with three original etchings by Alberto Giacometti. Limited edition of 200 copies. One of the 40 first copies on white vellum paper (no. 3), with the addition of the suite of the three rejected etchings, thus bringing the number of original engravings by Giacometti to 6. Impeccable decorated binding by Mercher. (Lust, Alberto Giacometti, the Complete Graphics, 1991, nos. 81-83 and p. 235.)
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