Editions Spes

First edition on ordinary paper.
Handsome autograph inscription from Franc-Nohain to Paul Valéry.
A good copy.

first edition on the current paper.
Signed autograph of Franc-Nohain Robert Garric.
Catholic reformist, he was the founder of "social Teams" in 1920, which aimed to establish a social elite and bring the good word about the brotherhood born of the trenches to the workers, in the tradition of patronage. Simone de Beauvoir, then student of Robert Garric in philosophy at Sainte-Marie Institute of Neuilly, remembers him in his "Memoirs of a Tidy Wench" "Garric appeared; I forgot everything else and myself; the authority of his voice subdued me. In twenty years we he explained, he had discovered in the trenches the joys of camaraderie that removed social barriers. [...] To deny all limits and all separations, get out of my class, out of my skin: this slogan electrified me. [...] Must serve my life! Must serve all my life! "
Pleasant full copy of his please insert.

With 10 original lithographs by Robert Delaunay, one of 465 numbered copies on pur fil paper.
A very good copy.

First edition.
Ex-dono in ink to head of upper cover, faint marginal dampstain to lower cover.

first edition on the current paper.
Signed autograph of Charles the Goffic Robert Garric.
Catholic reformist, he was the   founder of "social Teams" in 1920, which aimed to establish a social elite and bring the good word about the brotherhood born of the trenches to the workers, in the tradition of patronage. Simone de Beauvoir, then student of Robert Garric in philosophy at Sainte-Marie Institute of Neuilly, remembers him   in his "Memoirs of a Tidy Wench"   "Garric appeared; I forgot everything else and myself; the authority of his voice subdued me. In twenty years we he explained, he had discovered in the trenches the joys of camaraderie that removed social barriers. [...] To deny all limits and all separations, get out of my class, out of my skin: this slogan electrified me. [...] Must serve my life! Must serve all my life! "
Book decorated with illustrations by Frédéric Jubier.
Two gaps on the back, a split bit and then reattached the head, a foot fold trace of the second flat, little foxing mainly affecting the margins of some leaves.

New edition.
A small stain, not serious, to the lower cover.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Autograph inscription by the author.
Spine slightly creased, small worming to second cover.
Illustrated cover.

Third edition.
Fine autograph inscription from the author to Georges Simenon.
Handsome copy despite minor stains of no consequence to the first cover.