ALPHABET DE SABLE [de] Venus Khoury-Ghata/ Matta. (Accompagne d'une lithographie originale de Matta)

[Paris, France]: Maeght Editeur, 2000. First edition, limited to 100 numbered copies ('21/100'), signed by Venus Khoury-Ghata and Matta [total printing of 120 copies]. A fine copy in publisher's slipcase box (also fine). First edition, limited to 100 numbered copies ('21/100'), signed by Venus Khoury-Ghata and Matta [total printing of 120 copies]. OCLC lists two holdings (none in the United States) [Paris- Bibliotheque Kandinsky and Bibliotheque nationale de France]. Nicely illustrated with an original color lithograph (measuring twelve inches by four inches) by Roberto Matta. Sebastian Antonia Matta Echaurrenm (1912-2002), abstract expressionist and surrealist artist, was born in Santiago, Chile. Vénus Khoury-Ghata, French-Lebanese poet and novelist, was born in 1937 (in Bsharri, Lebanon).,, She has lived in Paris since 1972 and has published several novels and collections of poems... [and has won the following awards]:1980- Prize Apollinaire for "Les ombres et leurs cris"; 1987- Prize Mallarmé for "Un Faux pas du soleil"; 1992- Grand Prix de la Société des gens de lettres for Fables pour un people d’argile; Prize Jules Supervielle for "Anthologie personnelle"; Prize Baie des anges for "Le moine, l'ottoman et la femme du grand argentier"; 2011- Prize of Goncourt for Poetry (for all her works); 2012- Poetry Prize Pierrette Micheloud for "Où vont les arbres?..." [per Wikipedia].