Quatre fascinants la Minutieuse
Work illustrated with an original drypoint by Pierre Charbonnier as frontispiece.
Handsome and rare copy.
Manuscript signatures of René Char and Pierre Charbonnier on the colophon.
"A poet can survive anything but a misprint."
Oscar Wilde
First edition, illustrated with drawings by Minartz engraved on wood by Paillard. Limited edition of only 138 numbered copies on Marais laid paper. 3 plates including one frontispiece, 56 headpieces illustrating Parisian nightlife, shows... The illustration achieving close correspondence with the poems (the opera, merry-go-rounds, cabarets...).
Near-contemporary Bradel binding in half morocco with old rose corners. Smooth Jansenist spine. Author and title in gilt. Covers and spine preserved. Fine paper freshness, with foxing on fore edge and very rare and pale internal foxing. Spine slightly faded, or having turned uniformly.
Engraved bookplate of Jacques Crépineau, director of the Michodière theater and entertainment historian, bibliophile renowned for his collection of Romantics.
Very handsome copy.
First edition of this special issue dedicated by the Fidel Castro's Cuban State to Ernesto Che Guevara, who passed away a month earlier after being executed by the Bolivian army.
Tribute issue illustrated with many photographs of Che.
Text in Spanish.
A very beautiful copy despite some small minor folds on the last sheets.
Rare issue that participated greatly to the hagiography of Che, who still today remains the Christ of anti-capitalist revolutionaries and third-worldists.
The set of largely unpublished autograph poems by Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac is brought together by the Count in a collection entitled Le Dernier Pli des neuf voiles, whose composition extends from his very first collection (Les Chauves-Souris, 1892) to his last trilogy (Offrandes, 1915).
Set of 620 autograph leaves. 532 unpublished, first draught, handwritten on the recto and numbered in pencil, preserved in 3 chemises in half red contemporary morocco, red morocco labels with gilt author and title; the poems are then placed in the chemises with a handwritten title and a number for publication. According to a note from the author, “the differences in ink have no meaning, mere change of copy”. Rare pages from the hand of his secretary Henri Pinard: p. 20 of “Huitième voile” and p. 29 of “Neuvième voile”. 23 pages present the printed or typewritten texts of the poems and are enriched with Montesquiou's handwritten corrections.
A set of printed proofs are found at the top of the first chemise, as well as a pencil tracing after Aubrey Beardsley drawn by the author and accompanied by his handwritten indications.
First edition of this selection of poems on the Resistance.
Publisher's full yellow cloth binding, complete with its illustrated dust jacket and cellophane wrapper which has a lack to the head of the rear panel.
Fine autograph inscription signed by Lucien Scheler, alias Jean Silence, to Robert Gallimard: "... cette lampe-tempête souvenir du temps mort, avec l'amitié de Jean Silence."