SEGALEN (Victor). - Lot 146

SEGALEN (Victor). Stèles. Peking: for Georges Crès & Cie, 1914. In-8 elongated, in Chinese-folded sheets, under two wooden plates, the first with the title engraved in Chinese and French, held together with two yellow cloth ties. Second edition, partly original, the first in bookshops, published in the "Korean Collection". Printed in Peking on the Pei-T'Ang press, it includes 16 steles not included in the 1912 original, and a new text by the author entitled "Justification of the edition". Limited edition of 640 copies. One of 570 on felted laid paper, complete with felted paper strip bearing the title. Freckling on the cover, small wetness in the inner margin of a few leaves. Some scattered foxing, not serious.