Jacques RIVIÈRE

Original autograph signed and dated manuscript by Paul Claudel, for his preface to Jacques Rivière's 'A la trace de Dieu'. Seventeen and a half pages in black ink on five double leaves.
A few words crossed out and rewritten. Horizontal fold, some foxing to the first page, pencil notes by a bibliographer on the last blank page. The preface, dated June 1925, first appeared in Le Correspondant on September 25, 1925, then with Rivière's Carnets published the same year by his wife under the title 'A la trace de Dieu' (Gallimard, pp. 9-24).



Complete manuscript of Paul Claudel's moving preface to the notebooks kept by Jacques Rivière during his captivity in WW1. The writer pays

First edition. Pre-original edition of Considérations sur la mythologie Grecque by André Gide.
Other contributions by Jacques Rivière, Georges Simon, André Lhote, Paul Claudel, Albert Thibaudet.
With the NRF subscription bulletin, handsome copy of one of the first issues of the most famous French literary review.

First edition, one of the rare deluxe copies on Japan paper. Pre-original edition of Introduction ç une Métaphysique du Rêve by Jacques Rivière.
Contributions by Michel Arnaud, François-Paul Alibert, François Porché, Jean Talva and Louis Laloy.
A tiny trace of angular folding on the first cover.
Extremely rare deluxe copy of one of the very first issues of the most celebrated French literary review of the twentieth century.