Paris

Partly first edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Very precious and moving autograph inscription from Maurice Blanchot to his mother and sister: "Car pour nous, au sein des jours quelque chose peut-il apparaître qui ne serait pas le jour, quelque chose qui dans une atmosphère de lumière et de limpidité représenterait le frisson d'effroi d'où le jour est sorti? Pour la chère maman et la chère Marg, en toute reconnaissance et affection. Maurice [Because for us, could something appear amongst our days that isn’t the day, something that – in an atmosphere of light and softness – will represent the frisson of dread from which the day is born? For darling mother and dear Marg, with...

First edition, second issue, on ordinary paper, with the printer's date of 8 November 1913, and the corrected typographic error to Grasset on the title page, without the index.
Half grey morocco by Thomas Boichot, spine in six compartments, date at foot, covers and spine mounted on guards, top edge gilt, slipcase trimmed with grey morocco.

Inscribed copy to Count Primoli: “Hommage d'attachement respectueux et bien vif [As a token of my respectful and heartfelt affection].” 

Joseph Napoléon, Count Primoli (1851-1927), was the great nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte. Closely tied to the imperial family during the Second...