INSCRIBED BY MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS AND MARY MEIGS TO MARY McCARTHY
Une Saison Dans La Vie D'emmanuel. Roman Prix Medicis 1966. Illustrations Originales de Mary Meigs.
Montreal: Editions du Jour, 1968.
Price: $500.00
About the item
First edition thus, illustrated edition, limited to 475 numbered copies [total edition of 500 numbered copies]. 136 pp. 35 illustrated plates. 4to. INSCRIBED BY MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS AND MARY MEIGS TO MARY McCARTHY. Illustrated boards with orange lettering along spine; near fine in publisher's slipcase box that's lightly rubbed and dust soiled, else very good; it has kept the binding very bright and clean; overall a near fine copy with a fantastic association in the inscription.
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Marie-Claire Blais (b. 1939 - d. 2021) was a prolific Canadian author who wrote primarily in French for a Quebecois audience. Mary Meigs (b.1917 - d. 2002) was Blais' professional and romantic partner for many years and contributed the illustrations for this special edition of Une Saison Dans La Vie d'Emmanuel (A Season in the Life of Emmanuel), which won the Roman Prix Medicis award for 1966. This special edition is inscribed to novelist Mary McCarthy who was at one time married to Edmund Wilson, the literary critic and friend of both Marie-Claire Blais and Mary Meigs who introduced the two.
