Veillées noires

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Spine slightly sunned.
Rare autograph inscription signed by Léon-Gontran Damas to J.H. Guillaumet.
From the late 1920s onwards, with Aimé Césaire and Léopold Sédar-Senghor, Léon-Gontran Damas fought against assimilationism and colonialism. With his two fellow writers and poets, he was the creator of the concept of Négritude.