ÉDY-LEGRAND

First edition, one of the numbered copies on alfa paper.
The work is illustrated with original illustrations by Edy Legrand.
Spine lightly sunned with two tiny lacks at head and foot.
Signed autograph inscription from Henri de Montherlant to Henri Poulain, literary columnist and later administrator of the collaborationist newspaper "Je suis partout".

First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on nacre Japan paper, the only deluxe copies.
Texts by André Antoine, Tristan Bernard, Léon Daudet, Maurice Dekobra, Henry-Paté.
The first text, by André Antoine, is illustrated with colored in-text illustrations by Jean Bruller; the second, by Tristan Bernard, by Edy Legrand; the following by Pesle; that of Maurice Dekobra by Jean-Emile Laboureur and, finally, Henry-Paté by Josué Gaboriaud.
Handsome copy complete with its slipcase, the first cover of which is illustrated with a drawing by Marcel Vertès.

Illustrated edition with 17 original engravings by Eddy Legrand, one of 200 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only issue with 25 Japan copies.
The illustrations consist of: 1 engraved title, 8 vignettes and 8 plates.
Handsome copy with spine and covers unfaded, which is generally not the case.

Edition with 12 original watercolors by Edy Legrand, printed of of 3560 numbered copies.
A good copy.

First edition, one of 100 numbered Alfa paper out on trade and reserved to the press service.
Signed autograph of Henri de Montherlant Robert Garric: "... here, dear Garric, who think a few pages to be read by a Catholic like you ..."
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! "
Book decorated with original artwork Edy Legrand.
Pleasant copy.