Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller - Old and Rare Books

Nocturne – Essai pour une archéologie imaginaire 1980 - 1987 (Nocturnal - Essay on an Imaginary Archeology) [NOCTURNE IS SIGNED, WITH A SIGNED PRINT]

Fastenaekens, Gilbert (Photo); Alain Buttard (Text); Jean-Yves Leloup (Poem)

Brussels: Galerie Catherine Mayeur, 1993. Secial Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/100. Oblong Quarto. Unpaginated. Original black cloth with blind-stamped lettering on covers in the original off-white and black dustjackets with modern design and typography; housed in photo-illustrated slipcase with white lettering on spine. Aubergine endpapers. Title pages designed as the dustjackets. The edition of "Nocturne is in this set is one of 100 special limtied edition copies sign and numbered by the photographer on the verso of the title page, which also include a signed and numbered photograqphic print laid in. The
"Essai pour une archéologie imaginaire" copy here is one of the regular edition, limitied to 1500 copies, and is not signed, and does not have the print.

Twenty-four full page nocturnal b/w photographs in first volume (Nocturne) with text by Alain Buttard and a poem by Jean-Yves Leloup in French and English. List of photographs at rear. First of two "black books." Second volume with twenty full page b/w photographs, one of them folding, with text by Alain Buttard in French and German. List of photographs at rear. Slipcase with light wear along edges, books in fine condition. Very good+ to fine condition. Item #54523
ISBN: 2930115009

Price: $950.00