Maximilien VOX

First edition - only published issue of this journal of the Resistance.
Minor rubbing at head and foot of spine, slight tears in margins of covers.
Anonymous texts by Claude Bourdet, Maurice Clavel, Jean-Louis Curtis, Yves Gandon, Flavien Monod and Maximilien Vox, who was the magazine's director.
This single issue was put together between December 1943 and March 1944, but La Revue noire could not be published during the Occupation. The final press proof was given on 15 February 1944 and the imprint is dated 15 February 1945.
A rare and pleasant copy.

First edition printed to commemorate the centenary of the House of Hermès, one of the nominative copies on Imperial Japanese paper, this one inscribed for Mr. Saur.

Illustrated with 10 in-text vignettes, 6 full-page three-colour drawings, and photographic reproductions of Hermès products on 6 leaves devoted respectively to saddlery, polo, tobacco, leather goods, golf, and travel accessories.

Only three copies listed in the CCF (BnF, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Rennes).

Publisher’s Bradel binding in full flexible fawn board, flat spine without title, decorative endpapers and pastedowns.

A handsome commemorative booklet published for the 100th...