René SCHWOB

First edition, one of 15 numbered hors commerce copies on Holland paper, deluxe copies after 50 Holland copies containing 2 original lithographs by Marc Chagall.
Handsome copy despite minimal worming of no consequence to the spine.
Work illustrated with 16 reproductions of works by Marc Chagall.

First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe copy.
Spine wrinkled, small tears at foot of spine, full-margined copy.

First edition, review copy.
Signed autograph Rene Schwob 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 tr