Le roman inachevé [L'affiche rouge]

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Spine sunned with two small lacks at head and foot, boards marginally sunned.
This collection of poems contains the famous "Strophes pour se souvenir", a poem paying tribute to the members of the F.T.P. - M.O.I. of Missak Manouchian shot at Mont Valérien on February 21, 1944. This moving poem would be set to music and performed in 1959 by Léo Ferré under the title "L'affiche rouge" referring to the ignominious red poster displayed by the Vichy regime depicting the F.T.P.-M.O.I. as vulgar and criminal foreign terrorists.
Autograph inscription signed by Louis Aragon to Jean Ballard who was the director of the literary review Les Cahiers du Sud.