About the cover:

Half leather binding Black calf leather spine, both cover surfaces divided into four triangles, two of which are covered with bat leather and two of which are slightly raised towards the centre and covered with black calf leather with a relief of small, irregularly underlaid squares, without capital, barbed edges; black buffalo leather endpapers throughout, chemise as binding cover with straight spine and covered with black elephant skin paper, orange embossed spine title, slipcase also covered with black elephant skin paper.

About the content:

Gisèle Prassinos: Le Rêve

Original edition h. c. without number

Edition of 525 copies on Vergé d'Arches

Editions de la Revue Fontaine, Paris 1947 Born in Greece, author Gisèle Prassinos (1920-2015) emigrated to France with her parents as a young girl. She wrote numerous novels there, including the story ‘Le rêve’ in 1947.

About the artist: After studying and marrying in Japan, Nobuko Kiyomiya studied French in Angers to become a translator. Shortly after her divorce in 1993, she unexpectedly came across a modest bookbinding workshop: ‘a world without sound!’ Her fascination with how a book can be grasped with all the senses led her to learn bookbinding in this workshop. Two years later, she moved back to Tokyo and opened her own workshop. After a few years, she realised that, unlike in France, there was no book-collecting culture in Japan and she could not make a living from her work.

So she returned to France in 2000 and ran her flat studio in Paris with great success. Rather unexpectedly, she decided to return to her native Japan at the beginning of 2021.