Camille MAUCLAIR

Autograph manuscript signed entitled "La force et la destruction" about Paul Adam's novel La Force which has just been published, 8 leaves in blue ink with some corrections.
The article was certainly published in the Revue Blanche.
In this laudatory critique of the novel La Force, published by Paul Ollendorff: "... c'est un très grand poème épique..." ["... it is a very great epic poem..."] as well as of Paul Adam's already prolific work: "Un écrivain qui, à trente-cinq ans, avant ce livre en a signé vingt-trois autres dont aucun n'est médiocre et dont dix sont de premier ordre...", "... un inépuisable agitateur d'idées, d'aperçus

First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite a small shadow caused by a press cutting glued to a flap of the crystal paper protecting the work.

First edition, one of 650 numbered copies on Japon impérial paper.
Work illustrated with 17 original color compositions by Charles Jouas.
Handsome copy despite light marginal foxing of no consequence on the first cover.

First edition, one of 200 numbered copies on grand vélin pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Work illustrated with original watercolors by Migueline d'Attanoux.
Handsome copy, complete, as stated in the justification page, with its separate suite of the color plates.

Illustrated edition with 16 original watercolor compositions enhanced with pochoir by H. Cassiers, one of 500 numbered copies on Japan paper, the only printing with 100 other Japan copies.
Spine and covers lightly and marginally sunned without concern, handsome copy.

Edition illustrated with 17 original color compositions by C. Jouas, one of 650 numbered copies on Japan paper.
Spine and covers slightly and marginally sunned without consequence, handsome copy.
Marginal stains to slipcase.

(COLLECTIVE)
Stéphane MALLARMé
Prince PONIATOWSKI
Léon TOLSTOI
Alphonse DAUDET
Marcel SCHWOB
Jules RENARD
R. de MONTESQUIOU
Camille MAUCLAIR Tristan BERNARD
Maurice LEBLANC
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
Paul-César HELLEU
CARAN D'ACHE
Félix VALLOTTON
Jean-Louis FORAIN
Eugène GRASSET
Revue Franco-Américaine n° 1
Revue Franco-Américaine| Paris & New York June 1895| 19.5 x 28.5 cm| original wrappers
First edition of the first issue of this ephemeral magazine that ended at issue 3, two months later, and was taken over by La Revue Blanche, one of 50 copies on Japan paper the tirage de tête.

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