Hervé BAZIN

First edition of which there were no grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Texts by Michel Leiris, Jacques Prévert, Vercors, Hervé Bazin and commentaries by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Autograph inscription signed by Jean-Paul Sartre to Mademoiselle Marchais.

Grasset | Paris 1948 | 12 x 18.5 cm | bound in a chemise and slipcase

First edition, one of 23 numbered copies on pure wire, the “tirage de tête”.

Bound in olive green morocco, gilt date at the foot of the spine, plates embellished with tan morocco panel stamps with geometric outlines, the inside of which have been laid with strips of brown morocco appearing like both snakeskin and the outline of a closed fist, all edges gilt, preserved wrappers and spine, chemise in half olive green morocco in strips, white paper boards, slipcase lined in olive green morocco, white paper boards, elegant and spectacular binding signed D. H. Mercher.

A very rare and beautiful, perfectly set copy.

First edition, one of 132 numbered copies on pure laid paper.
Handsome copy despite some shadowing on the justification page and its facing page.

First edition, one of 55 numbered copies on Madagascar paper, deluxe issue.
Handsome copy.

Second edition published the same year and a few months after the first edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Spine creased with a small tear at foot; at the end of the volume, two signatures having been poorly cut and having caused small lacks of paper at the heads of the leaves without any damage to the text.

Autograph letter dated and signed by Hervé Bazin (49 lines in blue ink from his home in Aube, La belle Angerie in Villenauxe-la-Grande) in which he apologizes for his late reply: "... vous devez me trouver bien silencieux et m'en vouloir quelque peu..." ["you must find me very silent and hold it against me somewhat..."]
Hervé Bazin confides his apprehensions and psychological torments related to the political climate tinted with anti-communism : " Depuis des semaines, je traverse une sorte de crise, assez pénible... je suis inquiet de voir se transformer peu à peu l'anti stalinisme et anti marxisme..." ["For weeks, I have been going through a kind of crisis, quite painful... I am worried to see the gradual transformation of anti-Stalinism and anti-Marxism..."] and remains lucid about the minimal impact of his journalistic interventions : "ma voix est mince, mal assurée, inefficiente..." ["my voice is thin, unsteady, ineffective..."] preferring what his talent is recognized for : "mieux vaut pour elle cet autre genre d'éloquence où je suis plus à l'aise : le roman." ["better for it this other kind of eloquence where I am more at ease: the novel."] This is why he prefers to devote himself solely to writing his novels and suspends his collaboration with Georges Altmann to whom he had been providing some articles on current political events which he judges insufficient and too concise to express all that he would like to develop further: "Pour tout vous dire, je me lance dans un grand travail... qui m'oblige à quitter le forum... Il s'agit maintetant de passer à l'essentiel... C'est pourquoi j'arrête toute chronique fixe. Mais je suis avec vous, plus que jamais..." ["To tell you everything, I am embarking on a great work... which obliges me to leave the forum... It is now a matter of moving on to the essential... This is why I am stopping all regular chronicles. But I am with you, more than ever..."]
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Georges Altmann began his great career as a journalist in 1922 at L'Humanité then directed by Henri Barbusse who entrusted him, in 1927, with the La vie littéraire section. He was dismissed the following year from the communist daily while continuing to collaborate with Henri Barbusse on the review Monde. In 1932, he joined the Parisian editorial staff of Le Progrès de Lyon through which he made contact with the Resistance group Franc-Tireur. In March 1942, he went underground and became one of the principal editors of the review Franc-Tireur. He was arrested by the Germans in July 1944 then freed on August 18, the day before the Parisian insurrection. After the war he was involved in various journalistic and editorial activities. He then managed the press service of culture minister André Malraux.

First edition, one of 205 numbered copies on vélin neige, the only deluxe copies after 155 on vélin d'Arches.
Two small instances of sunning at head and foot of spine, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition, one of 225 numbered copies on snow-white vellum.
Two small patches of sunning at head and foot of spine, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition, one of 75 numbered copies on Montval, deluxe copies with 20 on vélin de Rives reserved for Jean Loize bookshop.
Full tawny morocco binding, smooth spine, gilt date at foot, boards decorated with curved black morocco plaques representing horseshoes within which pieces of skin evoking the coat of a pinto bay tobiano horse (mixture of brown and cream white) have been applied, brown paper endpapers and pastedowns, all edges gilt, covers and spine preserved, half chocolate brown morocco chemise with bands, brown-grey paper boards, tawny morocco title label, slipcase edged with chocolate brown morocco, brown-grey paper boards, elegant and spectacular binding signed D. H. Mercher.
Very rare and handsome copy perfectly executed.

First edition on ordinary paper with the mention "premier tirage" at the colophon despite a mention of 14th edition at the foot of the back cover.
A small tear repaired at head of spine, handsome copy.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Hervé Bazin to Jean Raudin: "... en espérant une amicale et fructueuse collaboration. Hervé Bazin.

First edition, one of 137 numbered copies on pure linen paper, the commercial deluxe issue after 80 on Montval.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 1840 numbered copies on alfa paper.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of the 175 numbered copies on pur fil, the "tirage de tête" (first deluxe copies).
Nice copy.

Edition of the same year as the first edition.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Hervé Bazin to Gaston J. Viala.

First edition, one of 162 numbered copies on alfa paper, our copy unnumbered, the only deluxe copies along with 19 on Holland paper and 46 on Rives paper.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 131 numbered copies on pure thread paper, deluxe copy after 74 on Rives vellum.
Handsome copy.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Autograph inscription from the author.
Handsome copy complete with its dust jacket.

Edition of the year of the original.
Pleasant copy.
Beautiful autograph dedication signed by Hervé Bazin to Gaston J. Viala: "For Mr. Gaston Jacques Viala, principal at the Lycée de Philippeville, the author, student of the Jesuits, signs and dedicates this viper with his fist , begging him not to mix (like some press) these whistles and memories. Hervé Bazin. "

first edition, one of the 260 numbered copies on vellum snow, only large papers.
Handwritten signature of Hervé Bazin below the justification of the draw.
Beautiful copy.

First edition, one of 75 numbered copies on Montval, tirage de tête.
A very attractive copy.

First edition, one of 29 numbered copies on alfa, the only large paper copies.
Illustrated.
A good copy.

First edition printed on ordinary paper.
Fine autograph inscription by the author.
Handsome copy.