VALÉRY (Paul) - PIGNON (Édouard). Dialogue de l'arbre. [Paris: Bernard Klein, 1958]. - Edition of 290 copies, illustrated with 27 compositions by painter Édouard PIGNON (1905-1993), including 7 etchings and aquatints in the artist's hand (cover, frontispiece and 5 on double page), and 20 woodcuts in the text. Copy on Arches vellum, specially printed for the typographer Pierre Jean Mathan, enriched with the following pieces: - Color suite comprising six double-page plates - different from those in the book -, a portrait of Pignon and a figure representing Tityre's goat on the cover. - Original copperplate for an unreproduced version of the frontispiece. A very well-preserved copy, despite some light foxing on the edges of a few leaves. Provenance: Pierre Jean Mathan Collection.