Illustrations by Bécan, Charlet, Pavis, Pedro and Roger Roy, Carb, Rafer, Bib, Gus Bofa, Don, Ferjac.
Index and tables at the end.
Copies in mint condition for this trilogy.
First edition. Pre-original edition of Considérations sur la mythologie Grecque by André Gide.
Other contributions by Jacques Rivière, Georges Simon, André Lhote, Paul Claudel, Albert Thibaudet.
With the NRF subscription bulletin, handsome copy of one of the first issues of the most famous French literary review.
First edition, one of the rare deluxe copies on Japan paper. Pre-original edition of Lettre à P.C., consul by Francis Jammes.
Contributions by André Ruyters, Francis Jammes, Paul Fargue and Henri Ghéon.
A small stain at the foot of the front cover, a mark along the full length of the back cover.
An extremely rare deluxe copy of one of the very first issues of the most famous French literary review of the twentieth century.
First edition, one of the rare deluxe copies on Japan paper. Pre-original edition of A André Chénier by François-Paul Alibert.
Contributions by Michel Arnaud, François-Paul Alibert, François Porché, Jean Talva and Louis Laloy.
A few tiny spots on the back cover and a crease mark on the front, otherwise a handsome copy.
Extremely rare deluxe copy of one of the very first issues of the most famous French literary review of the twentieth century.
First edition, one of the rare deluxe copies on Japan paper. Pre-original edition of Dolly by Valéry Larbaud and Nationalisme et littérature (2ème partie) by André Gide.
Other contributions by Henri Ghéon, Guy Lavaud, Gaston Furst, Louis Laloy and Louis Iehl.
Extremely rare deluxe copy of one of the very first issues of the most famous French literary review of the twentieth century.
First edition, one of the rare deluxe copies on Japan paper. Pre-original edition of Introduction ç une Métaphysique du Rêve by Jacques Rivière.
Contributions by Michel Arnaud, François-Paul Alibert, François Porché, Jean Talva and Louis Laloy.
A tiny trace of angular folding on the first cover.
Extremely rare deluxe copy of one of the very first issues of the most celebrated French literary review of the twentieth century.
First edition, one of the rare deluxe copies on Japan paper. Pre-original edition of Trois Hymnes by Paul Claudel.
Other contributions by Henri de Régnier, Paul Valery, Francis Carco, André Ruyters, Eduard Ducoté and André Gide.
A tiny tear without loss at the foot of the second cover, otherwise a handsome copy.
Extremely rare deluxe copy of one of the very first issues of the most celebrated French literary review of the twentieth century.
First edition.
Fifth complete year.
Full olive green cloth binding, smooth spine lightly browned decorated with blind fillets, gilt title and date, corners very lightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Review decorated with black and white illustrations, vignettes and tailpieces.
Principal contributors: Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Renée Vivien, Léon Bocquet, Paul Fort, René Ghil, Gustave Kahn, Albert Mockel, Charles Morice, Léon de Rosny, Albert Samain, Emile Verhaeren, Louis Pergaud, among others.
The final issue, number 50, is devoted to a questionnaire containing 102 responses from poets and writers to the following questions:
If to complete the Goncourt Academy and following its model, a well-endowed man were to establish an independent academy of poets:
1-Who would be, in your opinion, the ten new immortals to elect? (Women are admitted as well as French poets from Belgium.)
2-To which volume of verse published this year would you award the prize?
Handsome copy.