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Henry de Montherlant: "To Mr Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, this volume which evokes a bullfighting environment, where the physical does not lose its rights. (there is also a policy to have on the bulls themselves [... some undeciphered words]. Tribute to Montherlant 21-1-68".
Jacques Birr: This eagle, to Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, because both have class and see well.
I dedicate the illustrations in this book to him, my first ones, because he is the only one, I believe, to possess a keen sense of genuine dialogue between Europeans, an indispensable condition allowing an effective method to create a genuine political Europe, the our generation's only great hope for safeguarding Western humanism, so precious to human happiness. Jacques Birr "the artist" of the Perspectives and Realities Club".
Very nice edition for bibliophiles, the 10th work published by the Compagnie des Bibliophiles de l'Automobile-Club de France, adorned with 24 original lithographs by Jacques Birr in color, including several insets and some double-paged, printed on the presses by Lucien Détruit with the help of Marc Laurence. Also vignettes and superb initials in the form of "Ganaderias de toros" logos in the text.
Copy on BFK de Rives vellum, nominative, unnumbered "printed for Valéry Giscard d'Estaing".
Beautiful modern illustrated entirely devoted to Spain and bullfighting. "Jacques Birr is above all a great painter with Energy in the expression of the beauty of the living".
En-feuilles, covers folded in a black box covered inside with red velvet. In very good state of conservation. Solid case, slight traces of handling. Immaculate interior. a small mark on the cover.
AUTHOR(S): Henry de Montherlant / Jacques Birr
TITLE: Espana sagrada
Paris, The Bibliophiles of the automobile club of France, 1967
159 pp.in-4 of 27 x 35 cm
Subject: Copy of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing enriched with sending of Henry de Montherlant and superb original watercolor of Jacques Birr 1967 bibliophile 67597043
