Santiago (Chili)

First edition printed in 500 numbered copies, ours being one of the 250 hors commerce copies reserved for the author.
A handsome copy.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Rare and signed autograph inscription from Juan Enrique Lagarrigue to Henri Béraud.
Some light foxing to the boards
Provenance: from Henri Béraud's library on Île de Ré.

Arte de Pájaros
Sociedad de amigos del arte contemporaneo | Santiago de Chile 1966
| 34 x 39.5 cm | original wrappers, custom slipcase
First edition printed on ordinary paper.
Pleasant copy despite a small restored snag on the head of the spine.
Illustrations by Nemesio Antunez, Mario Carreno, Hector Herrera and Mario Toral.
Precious signed autograph inscription from Pablo Neruda « à Georges Pompidou, Président de la poésie, hommage. Pablo Neruda. Isla Negra, Chile, 1971.» «to Georges Pompidou, President of poetry, respect. Pablo Neruda. Isla Negra, Chile, 1971.»
Our copy is presented in a half green morocco slipcase, date on the bottom
of the spine, slipcase signed by Thomas Boichot.
Neruda, Ambassador of Chile at the time, met Pompidou in 1971, during a meeting aimed at renegotiating Chilean debt. According to the Mexican poet Carlos Fuentes, they talked for more than three hours, sharing their passion for French poetry, and in particular for Baudelaire. For the occasion the poet offered this copy of Arte de Pájaros to the French President, author of the well-known Anthologie de la poésie française published in 1961.