Lucien FABRE

First edition, review copy.
Signed autograph of Fabre Roger Caillois: "... tribute of great cultural and literary sympathy ..."

First edition, one of 1035 numbered copies on simili cuve vellum, ours one of 35 hors commerce copies numbered in Roman numerals, the only deluxe copies after 25 old tinted Japan paper.
Work illustrated, as frontispiece, with a portrait of the author by Edouard Vuillard.
Foreword by Paul Valéry.
Handsome copy.

First edition printed in 1150 numbered copies on Alfa paperlin.
Bel autograph signed by Lucien Fabre Robert Garric, "... these anxiety sheets on the man of peace."
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! "
Some small minor foxing.

First edition, one of 697 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies with 109 reimposed.
Fine autograph inscription signed by Lucien Fabre.
Our copy is enhanced with an original photograph of the author in swimwear posing by the sea, pasted on an endpaper.
Furthermore, the dedicatee has also pasted press clippings about the author and adorned an endpaper with a handwritten quote from Chamfort and, finally, annotated certain passages of the work in the margins.

First edition, one of 1035 numbered copies on laid paper, the only issue with 25 on Japan paper.
With frontispiece portrait of the author on China paper by Edouard Vuillard.
Preface by P. Valéry, spine slightly sunned, otherwise handsome copy.

First edition.
Preface by Albert Einstein.
One tear without loss to page 58.