Édouard PEISSON

Autograph letter dated and signed, addressed to the writer and literary critic Noël B. de La Mort, pen name of Noël Bayon, 15 lines in blue ink.
Crease marks inherent to folding for mailing, envelope included.
Noël B. de La Mort wishes to meet Edouard Peisson, but the latter is seldom in Paris: "Mais je vis la plus grande partie de l'année dans le midi..." (But I live most of the year in the south...) but he remains at his correspondent's disposal: "Je suis disposé toutefois à répondre toutes les questions que vous me poserez par lettre." (I am willing however to answer any questions you may ask me by letter.)

First edition, one of 220 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies after 55 on Lana vellum.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 200 numbered copies on Alfa paper and reserved to the press service.
Signed autograph Edward Peisson Guy Lavaud.
Back slightly wrinkled, otherwise good copy.

First edition, one of 200 numbered copies on Alfa paper and reserved to the press service.
Signed autograph Edward Peisson Guy Lavaud.
Nice copy.

First edition, one of 100 copies on numéroéts Alfa paper and reserved to the press service.
Signed autograph Edward Peisson Robert Kemp.
Warped back with small gaps without gravity.

Edition printed on vellum at 2200 Navarre.
Signed autograph Edward Peisson 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...

First edition, one of the numbered copies on alfa paper.
Spine faded with a very slight lack at head.