Quarto,156 pages, 20 full pages illustrations + numerous text illustrations. Green illustrated wrappers. In original card board slipcase. - First edition. One of 100 numbered copies with original signed and numbered aquatint by Jean Messagier and original signed and numbered gauffrage by André Ramseyer. Trou was founded in 1979 by a comite de redaction with George Barth, Jean Pierre Girod, Umberto Maggioni and Roger Voser. In this first issue: Jean Messagier, Roger Meier, Anne Cuneo and Andre Ramseyer. Other artists published in the later issues of Trou: Bram van Velde, Ch. Juliet, M. Butor, A. Voisard, M. Oppenheim, J-M. Lovay, F. Pajak, P. Sarto, J. Pache, B. Comment, G. Camesi, C. Bolle, J-B. Vuillème, C. Delarue, G. Cherpillod, F. Scianna, M. Chappaz, H. di Rosa.