Poésie et Vérité
ELUARD, Paul
Poésie et Vérité 42.
Neuchatel: Albert Kundig [Geneva] for Editions de la Baconnière, 1943
8vo (182 × 140mm), mid-twentieth century blue morocco over marbled paper boards by Lobstein-Laurenchet, spine lettered directly in gilt with date to foot; matching marbled endpapers; with original wrappers bound in, printed in red and blue; top edge gilt, others untrimmed; pp. [xx], 13-108, [xii]; spine evenly sunned, else a near-fine copy. Provenance: Prochian (Ex Libris) to p. [i], and Auction slip from Emmanual Lhermitte, Paris, 12th May 2004, lot 60, loosely inserted.
First French edition, limited to 1012 copies, this no. 509 of 1000 on papier velin, signed by Eluard with his distinctive ‘crossed’ signature to the front free endpaper. This volume contains Eluard’s celebrated poem of resistance, Liberté.
Eluard had joined the Resistance in 1941, and had stayed in Paris with his wife Nusch at a time when the greater part of the Surrealist circle sought refuge in New York. According to Raymond Jean, there was an edition preceding this one: “en 1941 [Eluard publie]…Poésie et Vérité 42… dont des milliers d’exemplaires - dans une édition de la revue Fontaine á Alger - seront parachutés dans les maquis, par les avions de la R.A.F.”, but the Librairie Française Catalogue Général des Ouvrages Parus du 1933 a 1946 indicates this edition as the first published in France. (Raymond Jean, Paul Eluard par lui-même. Paris: 1968).
ELUARD, Paul
Poésie et Vérité 42.
Neuchatel: Albert Kundig [Geneva] for Editions de la Baconnière, 1943
8vo (182 × 140mm), mid-twentieth century blue morocco over marbled paper boards by Lobstein-Laurenchet, spine lettered directly in gilt with date to foot; matching marbled endpapers; with original wrappers bound in, printed in red and blue; top edge gilt, others untrimmed; pp. [xx], 13-108, [xii]; spine evenly sunned, else a near-fine copy. Provenance: Prochian (Ex Libris) to p. [i], and Auction slip from Emmanual Lhermitte, Paris, 12th May 2004, lot 60, loosely inserted.
First French edition, limited to 1012 copies, this no. 509 of 1000 on papier velin, signed by Eluard with his distinctive ‘crossed’ signature to the front free endpaper. This volume contains Eluard’s celebrated poem of resistance, Liberté.
Eluard had joined the Resistance in 1941, and had stayed in Paris with his wife Nusch at a time when the greater part of the Surrealist circle sought refuge in New York. According to Raymond Jean, there was an edition preceding this one: “en 1941 [Eluard publie]…Poésie et Vérité 42… dont des milliers d’exemplaires - dans une édition de la revue Fontaine á Alger - seront parachutés dans les maquis, par les avions de la R.A.F.”, but the Librairie Française Catalogue Général des Ouvrages Parus du 1933 a 1946 indicates this edition as the first published in France. (Raymond Jean, Paul Eluard par lui-même. Paris: 1968).
ELUARD, Paul
Poésie et Vérité 42.
Neuchatel: Albert Kundig [Geneva] for Editions de la Baconnière, 1943
8vo (182 × 140mm), mid-twentieth century blue morocco over marbled paper boards by Lobstein-Laurenchet, spine lettered directly in gilt with date to foot; matching marbled endpapers; with original wrappers bound in, printed in red and blue; top edge gilt, others untrimmed; pp. [xx], 13-108, [xii]; spine evenly sunned, else a near-fine copy. Provenance: Prochian (Ex Libris) to p. [i], and Auction slip from Emmanual Lhermitte, Paris, 12th May 2004, lot 60, loosely inserted.
First French edition, limited to 1012 copies, this no. 509 of 1000 on papier velin, signed by Eluard with his distinctive ‘crossed’ signature to the front free endpaper. This volume contains Eluard’s celebrated poem of resistance, Liberté.
Eluard had joined the Resistance in 1941, and had stayed in Paris with his wife Nusch at a time when the greater part of the Surrealist circle sought refuge in New York. According to Raymond Jean, there was an edition preceding this one: “en 1941 [Eluard publie]…Poésie et Vérité 42… dont des milliers d’exemplaires - dans une édition de la revue Fontaine á Alger - seront parachutés dans les maquis, par les avions de la R.A.F.”, but the Librairie Française Catalogue Général des Ouvrages Parus du 1933 a 1946 indicates this edition as the first published in France. (Raymond Jean, Paul Eluard par lui-même. Paris: 1968).