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Rare first edition of Alexandre Vialatte's second work.
Four small dark spots on the spine.
Handsome copy illustrated with a sepia frontispiece by Jean Léon.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Alexandre Vialatte to Raymond Devert.

First edition, one of 180 numbered copies on Montgolfier Annonay paper.
Handsome copy.
Work illustrated with 3 wood engravings hors-texte by François Angeli.

New edition printed on higher vellum.
Autograph signed by Henri Pourrat to his auvergne friend Robert Garric: "... this story of a poet who comes from the sun to the light ..."
Reform Catholic, he was the founder of the "Social Teams" in 1920, which aimed to constitute a social elite and to bring the good word on the confraternity born from the trenches to the workers, in the tradition of the patronages . Simone de Beauvoir, then a student of Robert Garric in philosophy at the Sainte-Marie Institute of Neuilly, remembers him in his "Memoirs of a young girl": "Garric appeared; I forgot everything else and myself; the authority of his voice subjugated me. At twenty, he explained, he had discovered in the trenches the joys of camaraderie that removed social barriers. [...] To deny all the limits and all the separations, to leave my class, to leave my skin: this slogan electrified me. [...] My life must serve! It is necessary that in my life all serve! "
Illustrated book of original woods by François Angeli.
Marginal stings in the middle of the first board.