Le théâtre de Maurice Boissard 1907-1923

First edition, one of 944 numbered copies on pur fil paper, ours one of the 30 hors commerce copies.
Our hors commerce copy bearing the letter "b" was traditionally reserved for Jean Schlumberger, one of the 6 founders of the Nrf.
Spine lightly sunned, otherwise a handsome copy complete with its publisher's slip.
Autograph inscription signed by Paul Léautaud to Jean Schlumberger.
Below the autograph inscription, Jean Schlumberger has written this note, as a gift to his friend Joseph Breitbach: "Et pour l'amusement de J.B. JS."
Provenance: from the libraries of Jean Schlumberger then Joseph Breitbach.
In 1929, the German writer and francophile Joseph Breitbach came to France and settled in Paris two years later. His books banned in Germany from 1933, he then applied for French nationality in 1937 while returning his German passport, making him stateless. Arrested in 1939 as a German native, Jean Schlumberger would have him released, which sealed the beginning of a long friendship.