Les éditions premières

First edition, one of the numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies with 62 on pure thread paper.
Handsome copy.

First edition in French, one of 25 numbered copies on Marais Crèvecoeur paper, deluxe copies.
Work illustrated with a cover by Max Ernst.
Handsome copy.

first edition, one of the numbered copies on Alfa paper, only large papers with 62 "pur-fil" paper.
Our copy is enriched with an autograph signed letter of 4 pages from Ernest de Gengenbach, probably addressed to Eric Losfeld, dated September 10, 1976 in which he complains of pecuniary misdeeds due to the great delay in the publication of "The Mass Notwithstanding the conditions inherent in the signature of the contract with Philipacchi and in particular the advances on copyright which would enable it to avoid expropriation and pay its bills of daily living ... This critical material situation Encouraged Ernest Gegenbach and his wife to play their interpersonal skills: "... My wife who (fortunately) has retained her relations with the bourgeois, diplomatic and ecclesiastical world has had enough of these palinods. , Promoted to high positions that offer financial intervention to prevent us from being expropriated.I can not both accept their help and let publish the "Mass Of gold "which is a sacrilegious anti-clerical work ..."
A precious handwritten letter informing us of the financial difficulties of a sulphurous writer who was divided by the dilemma of his literary existence conditioned by his fragile material security.

First edition in French, one of 750 numbered copies on alfama paper, the only deluxe copies after 25 on Marais paper and a few hors commerce copies.
Work illustrated with a cover by Max Ernst.
Spine and boards slightly and marginally discolored as is often the case, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on pure Johannot laid paper, deluxe copy.
Autograph signature of Gengenbach below the justification page.
A small trace of sunning at foot of spine, occasional light worming, a shadow on the title page and the facing page left by the numbering bookmark of our copy.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on pur fil Johannot paper, the tirage de tête.
Author's signature to justification page.
A very good, well-margined copy.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on alfa, the only large paper copies along with 62 pur fil.