signed first edition Hardcover
1972 · Parma, Italy
by Roland Barthes
Parma, Italy: Franco Maria Ricci, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine. INSCRIBED BY ERTE on the half-title. A very handsome copy to boot of this lavish 1972 limitation. #1,072 of 2,000 copies issued by the legendary Italian publisher Franco Maria Ricci and with accompanying text by the formidable French philosopher Roland Barthes.. A clean, bright, Near Fine copy. Bound in dark silk, with an immaculate pasted-on image to the front cover and crisp, completely unflecked gilt-lettering along the front panel and spine. Also includes a Near Fine example of the publisher's decorative cloth box. Very uncommon signed by Erte.
(Inventory #: 12381)