Commerce Cahier XXIV de l'été 1930

First edition published in 2,900 copies, ours being one of the Alfa paper copies reserved for the press service.
Spine slightly faded.
Literary contributions by Ossip Mandelstam "Le timbre égyptien", René Daumal "Poèmes", Paul Valéry "Moralités", Valery Larbaud "Du sel ou du sable"...
Commerce, a literary review founded by Marguerite Caetani, appeared as twenty-nine "quarterly notebooks published under the supervision of Valéry, Fargue and Larbaud" between 1924 and 1932. Its publication forms part of the competitive tradition of French reviews of the 1920s and was not content merely to promote the most prominent authors of French literature: it played the role of "discoverer" of young talents and unearthed forgotten seminal texts.