9782904732713

Book Description: Soft cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. Martine Franck (illustrator). 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¿" - 12" tall. 155pp Card covers with white lettering on face and spine. Protected with plastic sleeve and enclosed in slipcase. Gift inscription on ffep refers to names of L'Assemblee des Professeurs 1987. The double page spread (pp6-7) contains wide angled b/w photograph of 39 leading academics of the College de France. Enclosed tracing paper drawings and hand written names identify these VIPs.The Professeurs are then each featured within the book - with excellent portrait images taken by the author and brief biographical text accompanies the photographs. What makes this book very special is that the donor (the daughter of the previous owner) has diligently sought the SIGNATURES of 27 of the featured Professeurs; Yves Laporte, Yves Bonnefoy, Marcel Froissart, Pierre Toubert, Gilbert Dragon, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Jean Delumeau, Michel Tardieu, Andre Miquel, Maurice Agulhon, Marc Fumaroli, Claude Hagege, Jean Kellens, Jean Yoyotte, Paul Veyne (with additional personal inscription for previous owner), George le Rider, Jacques Ruffie, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Jean Irigoin, Bernard Frank, Jacques Thuillier, Jean-Marie Zemb, Pierre-Etienne Will, Nathan Wachtel, Jean-Pierre Serre, Gerard Fussman, Yves Coppens, Emmanuel le Roy Laduries. An archive item par excellence. Signed by Members of the Assem. Bookseller Inventory # 003437

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