Pierre CHAMPION

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Work illustrated with 24 phototype plates.
First cover marginally sunned with some light spotting, handsome interior condition.

First edition printed in 200 copies, ours one of the 194 numbered copies on Arches paper.
Full burgundy morocco binding, spine with 6 raised bands decorated with gilt fillets, gilt letter and collection number at head and foot, pastedowns lined with burgundy box calf and morocco frame, endpapers lined with burgundy box calf, original wrappers and spine preserved, minimal scratches of no importance to the edges, top edge gilt retaining its deckled edges, binding signed Charles Benoit.
Handsome copy perfectly executed.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Autograph dedication signed by Pierre Champion to Renée Dunan.

first edition.
Autograph signed by Pierre Champion to Victor Bucaille.
Illustrated book of 2 frontispieces and 5 boards inset.
Back and boards marginally insolated, a spot on the first board of the first volume.

first edition on the current paper.
Signed autograph of Pierre Champion Robert Garric.
Catholic reformist, he was the founder of "social Teams" in 1920, which aimed to establish a social elite and bring the good word about the brotherhood born of the trenches to the workers, in the tradition of patronage. Simone de Beauvoir, then student of Robert Garric in philosophy at Sainte-Marie Institute of Neuilly, remembers him in his "Memoirs of a Tidy Wench" "Garric appeared; I forgot everything else and myself; the authority of his voice subdued me. In twenty years we he explained, he had discovered in the trenches the joys of camaraderie that removed social barriers. [...] To deny all limits and all separations, get out of my class, out of my skin: this slogan electrified me. [...] Must serve my life! Must serve all my life! "
Pitting on the back and head of the second flat, small, marginal shortages Length of the first board that also includes an angular fold track in the lead.