Albert Samain - Poèmes pour la Grande Amie - un des 4...

Albert Samain, Poems for the Great Friend. Paris, Auguste Blaizot, 1942. Small quarto, 95 pp. Original edition of this work, facsimile of the manuscript, a unique printing run of 150 copies, here no. 3/4 on Imperial Japanese paper of the tirage de tête. The work includes a long introduction by Jules Mouquet. Provenance: P.R. Méry, with his bookplate depicting a town hall (!) with the motto Information Publicité Propagande. The sale of this library seems to have taken place at Drouot in 2007. Binding by Yseux, full goat, smooth spine, boards with a geometric decoration of cold and gilt fillets, gilded top, moiré guards, double guards of marbled paper, covers and spine preserved. Spine missing. Very handsome copy in the tirage de tête.

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