Saint-Flour

Rare double first edition of this masterpiece of the literature of the Resistance, probably published simultaneously in the northern and southern zone by the two most important underground publishers of the Resistance.

The six-page fold-out cupboard produced in the Parisian cellar of Editions de Minuit is echoed by the equally modest brochure printed on the active resistant presses of Saint-Flour by René Amarger under a yellow cover “falling from wallpaper”. It

ELUARD, Paul, under the pseudonym of Jean Du HAUT
Les sept poèmes d'amour en guerre
Bibliothèque française, No publisher (Saint-Flour) n.d. (1943), 10.5 x 13.5 cm, one folded sheet
The first edition, printed clandestinely, of which there were no large paper copies.
A good and rare copy.

First edition.
Autograph inscription from J.B. Vidaillet, two manuscript corrections by the author in the text.
A lack at head of spine, some minor foxing.