Jacques MARITAIN

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe copy.
One repaired tear at the foot of a joint, spine slightly browned.
A full-margined copy.
Signed and inscribed copy by Jacques Maritain to Mademoiselle Delamain, his publisher's daughter.

First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe copy.
Adhesive paper stains at head and foot of endpapers, otherwise a handsome full-margined copy.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on vélin d'Arche paper, this copy one of 25 hors commerce for each volume, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies with 30 Japon.
Spine and covers slightly and marginally faded as usual, otherwise nice set with edges preserved.

First edition, one of 450 numbered copies on pur fil for each of the volumes.
Spines sunned.

Edition of wich no leading copies exists.
Signed autograph of Jacques Maritain 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 the Institut Sainte-Marie 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! "
A small marginal browning dish on the second and last book.

Edition of wich no leading copies exists.
Signed autograph of Jacques Maritain 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 the Institut Sainte-Marie 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! "
A small tear without gravity head of the first flat, nice full copy of his please insert.