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First edition, one of the numbered copies on Mandeure rag paper, the only ones to include as frontispiece an original lithograph justified and signed by Jean Hélion, deluxe copy.
Handsome copy despite a light and small dampstain at foot of spine.
Poetic full-page autograph inscription signed by Edmond Humeau: "Au cher René Massat dont je sais combien nous approche la passion de peindre une terre qui nous illumine au défaut d'un ciel coutumier, en toute présence amie." ["To dear René Massat whose passion for painting a land that illuminates us in the absence of a familiar sky I know brings us so close together, in all friendly presence."]