Emmanuel MOUNIER

First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alma du Marais paper, the only deluxe copies.
Issue partly devoted to Emmanuel Mounier with contributions by Jean-Marie Domenach "Mounier surpassed?", Marcel Reggui "How I knew Mounier", Michel Steiner "Pages to read in the present"...
This issue also deals with Hungarian poetry with Sandor Csoori, Gyula Illyes, Zoltan Jekely, Laszlo Nagy, Otto Orban, Gyorgy Raba, Judith Toth, Zsuzsa Takacs...
Other contributions by Steven Kehnan & Dick Howard "The new student left in the United States".
Occasional light foxing, principally marginal.

Three autograph letters signed by Emmanuel Mounier, 7 pages in black ink on headed paper with the address of the headquarters of the journal Esprit. Corrections of the author's hand.
Folds inherent in envelopes.

First edition printed on laid this choice established by Emmanuel Mounier and which does not mention great papers.
Scratches on the back, some foxing affecting the leaves mainly in dying margins.
Beautiful autograph dedication signed by Emmanuel Mounier Jean Bardet co-founder of the editions of Seuil: "For Jean Bardet from heart to heart ert floor to floor."

Edition of wich no leading copies exists.
Signed autograph of Emmanuel Mounier 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 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! "

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies, an advance copy.
Illustrated cover, 12 photographic reproductions hors-texte.
Inscribed by Emmanuel Mounier.
Spine lightly rubbed, otherwise handsome copy.