Esprit N°11 de la 17ème année

First edition of this issue of this important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alma du Marais paper, the only deluxe copies.
Issue partly devoted to the crisis affecting the people's democracies. : J. Cep & Abbé Boulier: "The religious struggle in Czechoslovakia", François Fetjö: "The Rajk affair is an international Dreyfus affair", Claude Bourdet: "Journey to the second USSR"
Other contributions by J.J. Brieux "Mao Tse-Tung's China, II: the men", André Bazin "The victorious test of Italian neo-realism"...
Occasional foxing mainly marginal.