Ensemble de trois lettres manuscrites signées, d'un jeu d'épreuves corrigées et d'un tapuscrit corrigé de Pierre Mac Orlan pour sa préface à Embruns de son ami le poète artésien Roger Valuet
S. n.|Saint-Cyr-sur-Morin 27 Septembre au 31 Octobre 1949|21 x 27 cm|10 feuillets
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Set of three dated and signed autograph letters by Pierre Mac Orlan (10 lines in blue ink each), a set of corrected proofs and a corrected typescript concerning the preface he wrote for the poetry collection Embruns by his young friend and protégé Roger Valuet. Fold marks inherent to postal handling. We include, on soft yellow paper, the three-page typescript with about ten corrections and modifications in turquoise felt-tip pen by Pierre Mac Orlan. We also include a set of printed proofs of 5 leaves also enriched with about ten corrections and modifications in Pierre Mac Orlan's hand. A native of Arras, Roger Valuet is a popular writer who signed, under the pseudonym Roger Vilard, numerous detective and espionage novels. At the beginning of his career, he was helped by Pierre Mac Orlan who wrote the preface to his first collection of poems.