Paul FORT

Definitive edition of the thirteenth volume of Ballades françaises.
Bradel binding in half blue-grey cloth, smooth spine slightly faded decorated with a gilt fleuron, brown shagreen title-label with marginal scratches and gilt volume number, marbled paper boards, covers and spine preserved, contemporary binding.
Preface by Pierre Louÿs.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Paul Fort to Count Henri de Nanteuil.

Final edition of the thirteenth volume of Ballades françaises et Chroniques de France.
Bradel binding in half blue-grey cloth, smooth spine very lightly darkened decorated with a gilt fleuron, brown shagreen title-label with two small scratches and gilt volume number, marbled paper boards, covers and spine preserved, contemporary binding.
Full-page autograph inscription dated and signed by Paul Fort to Count Henri de Nanteuil: "... Qu'est-ce que la poésie ? Une chanson qu'on parle." ["... What is poetry? A song that one speaks."]

Definitive edition of the second volume of the Ballades françaises.
Bradel binding in half blue-grey cloth, smooth spine slightly darkened decorated with a gilt fleuron, brown shagreen title-label with scratches and gilt volume number, marbled paper boards, covers and spine preserved, contemporary binding.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Paul Fort to Baron Henri de Nanteuil.

Definitive edition of the eleventh volume of Ballades françaises et Chroniques de France.
Contemporary Bradel binding in half blue-grey cloth, smooth spine slightly darkened decorated with gilt fleuron, brown shagreen title label with scratches and gilt volume number, marbled paper boards, covers and spine preserved.
Full-page autograph inscription dated and signed by Paul Fort to Madame Henri de Nanteuil ending with the poet's famous verses which constitute one of the most celebrated hymns to peace: "... On pourrait faire une ronde autour du monde, si tous les gens du monde voulaient se donner la main." ["... We could make a circle around the world, if all the...

Handwritten signed poem of the Chant de la paix – La ronde autour du monde dedicated to Carlo Rim
[Si tous les gars du monde]
Handwritten signed poem by Paul Fort: 13 lines in black ink, three tercets entitled “Chant de la paix – La ronde autour du monde”.

“If all the girls of the world wanted to hold hands, all around the sea they could make a circle / If all the guys of the world wanted to be sailors, with their boats they would make a nice bridge on the water: Then we could make a circle around the world, if all the guys of the world wanted to hold hands.”
Handwritten...

First edition, one of the copies from the first printing.
Half wine-red sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt floral motifs and gilt volume numbering, spine lightened, marbled paper boards, contemporary binding.
Preface by Pierre Louÿs.
Signed autograph inscription from Paul Fort to Marius Vallabrègues.

Definitive edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe issue.
A small tear at foot of spine, handsome copy.

Definitive edition, one of 882 numbered copies on pure linen paper reserved for the "Friends of Paul Fort".
Spine slightly sunned, otherwise handsome copy.
Fine autograph inscription signed by Paul Fort to André Allix: "... avec les distingués hommages et le très amical souvenir d'un vieux trouvère... Qu'est-ce que la poésie ? Une chanson qu'on parle..." ["...with distinguished homage and the very friendly remembrance of an old troubadour... What is poetry? A song that one speaks..."]

Definitive edition, one of 610 numbered copies on pure thread paper reserved for the "Friends of Paul Fort".
Spine slightly sunned, otherwise handsome copy.
Fine autograph inscription dated and signed by Paul Fort to Doctor François Leboeuf recalling one of his most famous verses: "... ces chants de France avec les distingués hommages et le très amical souvenir du vieux trouvère... On pourrait faire une ronde autour du monde, si tous les gens du monde voulaient se donner la main..." ["... these songs of France with distinguished homage and the very friendly remembrance of the old troubadour... We could dance in a circle around the world, if all the people of the world...

First edition.
Spine cracked with some lacks, light corner bumps to boards, some light interior foxing.
Precious signed autograph inscription from Paul Fort: "A Léon Bakst, son admirateur."

Complete collection of 24 issues and 18 fascicules of this literary review animated by numerous poets.
Contributions by Paul Fort, Léon Vérane, Paul Jamot, Gaston Foubert, Germaine Lepage, René Duart, René Maublanc, Mercutio, Roger Vailland, Vincent Muselli, Georges Delaw, Touny-Léris, Paul Neveux, Max Buffenoir, Adolphe Willette, A.M. Gossez, Marcel Sézanne, Emile Sedeyn, Roger Lecomte, Théotime...
Illustrations by Georges Delaw, Auguste Lepère, André-Edouard Marty, Adolphe Willette, Léon Bellot, Maurice Louvet, Edmond Chauvet, Eugène Bourgouin, Robert Coutin, Claude Renard, Pierre Subtil, Denise Hubrecht-Petitjean,
Handsome and rare complete set including issue N°10-11...

first edition on current paper.
Pleasant copy.
Autograph signed by Paul Fort to Armand Godoy.

First Edition printed 200 copies numbered and justified by Paul Fort on laid, ours specially printed for Jean Comte.
Illustrated book, frontispiece, a portrait of Paul Fort by Ignacio Zuloaga.
Back slightly insolated, a small lack at the top of the first board, a shadow on the page next to the portrait left by the snake protecting him.
Signed autograph dedication of Paul Fort to his Jean Comte with this quote: "It is only love to be happy to the world."

First edition not put on the market, one of 45 copies numbered and initialed by the author on Japan, ours printed especially for Jean Comte, head print.
Nice copy despite the back very slightly insolated as generally.
Work adorned with a frontispiece, cul-de-lamp and vignettes by Paul Welsch.
Signed autograph dedication from Paul Fort to Jean Comte on a guard: "... this book is a great deal of trouble and little joy, this flight of black birds to cherries ..." enriched two pages further from this handwritten thought: "Light is the life of all my thoughts."

First edition out of trade, one of 300 numbered copies on Arches paper, ours printed specially for Jean Comte, only draw with 30 Japan.
Nice copy.
Illustrated book of a frontispiece and a cul-de-lamp of Gino Severini.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Paul Fort to Jean Comte: "This book, or rather this shipwrecked shipwrecked boat under the rainbow of hope ... with the affectionate memory of an old finder of our France ".

First Edition, one of 185 copies numbered and justified by Paul Fort on laid Arches paper and reserved for his friends.
Binding half morbid taupe morocco corners, smooth back adorned with double golden nets, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers, gilded head, ex-libris Georges Rouma pasted on a contreplat.
Illustrated book of a frontispiece in colors, vignettes and banners of Ginette D'Yd.
Nice copy.
The book is also illustrated with a beautiful portrait of Paul Fort by Gino Severini at the foot of which Paul Fort has cracked a dated and signed autograph to Georges Rouma.
Autograph...

First edition on current paper.
Autograph dedication dated 1943 and signed by Paul Fort to a friend named Michel.

First edition on current paper.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Paul Fort to Angèle Canonge.

Edition printed in 150 nominative copies on rag paper.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Paul Fort by Mac Avoy here in double state.
First cover marginally discolored, otherwise handsome copy.

Definitive edition on ordinary paper.
Fine autograph inscription signed by Paul Fort to Alexis Baume "with my best wishes for the entire passage of the mysterious year 1943".
Foreword by Paul Valéry.

First edition on ordinary paper, with only 46 deluxe copies printed.

Autograph inscription by the author.

Corner dampstain affecting the front cover.

First edition not put on the market, one of 45 copies numbered and initialed by the author on Japan, ours printed especially for Jean Comte, head print.
Nice copy despite the back very slightly insolated as generally.
Work adorned with a frontispiece of I. Perely, a vignette cover of Fort-Meyembourg and a cul-de-lamp Paul Welsch.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Paul Fort to Jean Comte on a guard: "... from French heart to French heart, this book of hope and faith in the soul of France ..."

First edition out of trade, one of 300 numbered copies on Arches paper, ours printed especially for Jean Comte, only draw with 45 Japan.
Beautiful copy despite the back slightly insolated as generally.
Illustrated book of a frontispiece and a cul-de-lamp of Gino Severini.
Signed autograph dedication of Paul Fort to Jean Comte: "... who granted me his esteem, was willing, in these years of disgrace for all and for letters, to show the friend of an old poet of the old France that the lady with the faulx was watching (hence the delay ...) but finally the villain has just escaped! "

First edition out of commerce, one of 300 copies numbered and initialed by Paul Fort on Arches paper, ours printed especially for Jean Comte, only draw with 45 Japan.
Back slightly insolated as usual and which also has a small lack in mind, a slight tear in the head of the first board.
Illustrated book of a frontispiece, a cul-de-lamp and bands of Gino Severini.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Paul Fort to Jean Comte: "... these fairy tales and French walks on seven monarchs of sweet France" enriched, below, this handwritten thought: "Light is the life of all my thoughts . "

First Edition, one of 185 copies numbered and justified by Paul Fort on laid Arches paper and reserved for his friends.
Binding half morbid taupe morocco corners, smooth back adorned with double golden nets, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers, gilded head, ex-libris Georges Rouma pasted on a contreplat.
Illustrated book of a frontispiece in colors, vignettes and banners of Ginette Yd.
Nice copy.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Paul Fort to his friend Georges Rouma.
It was pasted, following the guard on which appears the autograph autograph dedication of the author described above, the...

First Edition, one of 250 copies numbered and justified by Paul Fort on laid Arches paper and reserved for his friends.
Nice copy.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Paul Fort to his friend George Marlow ending with the famous poem of "The round around the world:" If all the girls of the world wanted to give their hands, all around the sea they could make a round. / If all the guys in the world wanted to be a seafarer, they had a nice bridge on the wave with their boats. / Then we could go around the world, if everyone in the world wanted to give a hand. "

First Edition, one of 185 copies numbered and justified by Paul Fort on laid Arches paper and reserved for his friends.
Binding half morbid taupe morocco corners, smooth back adorned with double golden nets, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers, gilded head, ex-libris Georges Rouma pasted on a contreplat.
Illustrated book of a frontispiece, vignettes and banners of Gino Severini
Nice copy.
Autograph dedication signed by Paul Fort to his friend Georges Rouma as a quatrain.
It was pasted, next to the guard on which appears autograph described above, a signed autograph letter dated 1931, two...

First edition, one of the 770 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, ours one of the 25 hors commerce literate.
Autograph signed by Paul Fort to a friend named Clément.
Nice copy at all margins despite slight marginal stings on the boards and back.

First Edition, one of the 5 copies out of commerce numbered on Imperial Japan and reserved for the author, ours N ° 1 justified and numbered by Paul Fort and destined to his friend Bernard Sancholle-Henraux , head print.
Exceptional autograph dedication signed by Paul Fort, running on two pages, to his friend Bernard Sancholle-Henraux and written in the form of two humorous poems entitled "The devil in the night" and "Coming back from St. Martin".
Nice copy.

Collective Edition, a 400 numbered copies on vellum of the Vosges and reserved to the Friends of Fort Paul.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed and dated Paul Fort Dr. Jean Lacroix: "... from a French poet these songs to the taste of France in honor and remembrance very friendly."
Foreword by Guillaume Apollinaire.
Nice copy wide-margined despite a tear in the lead of the second flat.

New edition partly original because increased.
Bel autograph signed almost full page of Paul André Fort Chevrillon.
Yellowed paper as generally.

First edition hors commerce, one of 300 numbered copies on Arches paper, the only printing with 30 on Japan paper.
Fine autograph inscription dated and signed by Paul Fort to Léon Gaudin: "Ce naufrage de poète sous le faible symbole d'espérance que peut être un arc-en-ciel... avec le bien cordial souvenir d'un vieux trouvère de notre France" ["This shipwreck of a poet under the feeble symbol of hope that a rainbow can be... with the most cordial remembrance of an old troubadour of our France"].
Work illustrated with a frontispiece and tailpiece by Gino Severini.
Handsome copy.

Definitive edition on ordinary paper.
Fine autograph inscription signed by the author to André Coeuroy.
Handsome copy.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Signed autograph inscription from Paul Fort to André Coeuroy.
Handsome copy.

Edition published for Les Amis de Paul Fort, one of 50 numbered copies on Japan paper initialed by the author for which an original page of Florilège was announced, our copy lacks this page, deluxe copy.
Handsome copy complete with its publisher's slip.

First edition for which there were no large paper copies.
Rare.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Front cover slightly warped, otherwise a rare and handsome copy.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
A repaired tear at the head of one joint, two small marginal lacks to the first cover, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition printed on ordinary paper.
Autograph inscription by Paul Fort.
A tiny angular lack to head of first cover.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Autograph inscription by Paul Fort.
Spine creased with a small nick at foot.