Les Malheurs de Fernande. In Mercure de France, n°473 à n°474

Pre-first edition.
Full soft grey cardboard binding, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Other contributions by F. Gaiffe "L'Ame de la Pologne d'après son théâtre", A.-Ferdinand Hérold "L'Espagne en 1917", G. Batault, N. Minsky "L'Idéologie de la Révolution russe", M. Gay "Isabelle Rimbaud", Rachilde, C. Merki, G. Kahn, G. Dauville "L'Internationalisme et la guerre", M. Dufaux "Une Mentalité d'avant-guerre : le Tiers-esprit", M. Boigey "Notes sur l'esthétique des combats", C. Bessonnet-Favre "Leibniz et la colonisation germanique de la Russie", J.-E. Blanche "Les Spectacles de la société Shakespeare".
Copy illustrated with portraits of Sacha Guitry by André Rouveyre.
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' originated as a French review, founded in the 17th century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which evolved to become a publishing house in the 20th century.
Under the impulse of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review revived the name 'Mercure de France' in 1890 and featured symbolist texts, notably by Jean Moréas, Ernest Raynaud, Jules Renard, Louis Dumur. Gradually gaining recognition, this review published both the greatest Parnassians (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Heredia, etc.) and witnessed the emergence of Jarry's Pataphysics.
The publishing house was born in its wake. It notably published the first works of Gide and Claudel, Colette, Apollinaire, Georges Duhamel?