Livre d'espérance. La joie française vaincra les temps sans joie

First edition not put on the market, one of 45 copies numbered and initialed by the author on Japan, ours printed especially for Jean Comte, head print.
Nice copy despite the back very slightly insolated as generally.
Work adorned with a frontispiece of I. Perely, a vignette cover of Fort-Meyembourg and a cul-de-lamp Paul Welsch.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Paul Fort to Jean Comte on a guard: "... from French heart to French heart, this book of hope and faith in the soul of France ..."