Mercure de France, n°333 à n°489, tome CXXX, année 1918

First edition.
Full soft mouse-grey cardboard binding, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by F.-W. Bain "Un Doigt de la lune, conte hindou", G. Dubor "Un Empereur romain féministe", A. Rouveyre, E. de Keyser "En Syrie", R. Cruchet "La Crainte du danger chez le Combattant", P. d'Olan "Les Rêves, essai de psychologie idéaliste", G. Apollinaire "L'Esprit nouveau et les poètes", P. Valéry "Le Rameur", B. Cendrars "Le Film de la fin du monde", J. Romains "Sur les Conditions actuelles du théâtre", E. Laloy " Le Kaiser et la neutralité de la Hollande", P. Peltier "Musset et Baudelaire, à propos des 'Confessions d'un mangeur d'opium' ", Rachilde, C. Merki.
Copy illustrated with drawings by A. Rouveyre.
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' originated as a French periodical, founded in the 17th century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which evolved to become a publishing house in the 20th century.
Under the impetus 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 Parnassian poets (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Heredia, etc.) and witnessed the emergence of Jarry's Pataphysics.
The publishing house emerged in its wake. It notably published the first works of Gide and Claudel, Colette, Apollinaire, Georges Duhamel?