Charles Ferdinand RAMUZ

First edition.
Minor rubbing to the spine and along the edges of the covers, otherwise a pleasing, clean copy.
Cover illustrated by Marcel Duchamp.
Literary and artistic contributions by Pierre Mabille, Brassaï, Paul Eluard, Ambroise Vollard, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Salvador Dali, Pierre Courthion, Louise de Vilmorin, André Breton, Pierre-Jean Jouve, Benjamin Péret, Gisèle Prassinos, Hans Bellmer, Léon-Paul Fargue, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Klee, Yves Tanguy, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Cézanne...

First edition, one of the numbered copies.
Pleasant copy.

First edition, one of the rare numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Other contributions by Pierre Jean Jouve "Récitatif", Léon-Paul Fargue on Paul Claudel, Alain "Entretien chez le sculpteur", Vladimir Nabokov "Pouchkine", Egyptian texts by Jean-Claude Mardrus...
Spine and boards slightly faded.

Edition first in part, one of numbered copies on bouffant and reserved for advance distribution.
Spine sunned.
Rare autograph inscription signed by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz to Maurice Martin du Gard.

Second edition and the first in French, one of 8 numbered copies on annam paper, the tirage de tête.
Somes spots to endpapers, and slightly to the covers and edges of some leaves.

First edition printed on laid paper.
Spine and covers slightly and marginally lightened as usual, worming to the final leaves, the first endpaper and the back cover.

First edition française, one of 43 numbered copies on pur fil, the only large paper copies.
A good copy.

Second edition but first for many parts, one advance (service de presse) copy.
Rare autograph inscription signed by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz to Pierre de Massot.
Spine and back lightly sunned as usual.

First edition, one of 33 numbered copies on Hollande, tirage de tête after 12 Japon.
Signed by the author on an endpaper.
Endpaper and some edges marginally faded, a good copy with good margins.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Insolated back with a little lack in mind.
Rare autograph dedication signed by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz Maurice Martin du Gard.

First edition, one of 1200 copies on vergé d'édition paper, the only large paper copies with 85 on Johannot paper.
A small lack to foot of spine, tiny spots to endpapers.

First edition, review copy.
Signed autograph of Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz to 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! "
Back passed, small light spots on the boards, reading a few marks in pencil by the dedicatee in margins of some leaves.

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on Madagascar paper, deluxe copy.
Spine sunned and cracked, foxing, tears and marginal stains to boards, erased gift inscription at head of first endpaper, handsome interior condition.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Illustrated brochure with photographs, notably of Nora Dumas.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 1200 copies on laid paper, the only deluxe copies with 85 Johannot.
A small tear at the head of one joint, a stain on the second cover.