VALÉRY, Paul
Propos sur la Poésie
Saint-Felicien-en-Vivarais: Au Pigeonnier, and Paris: Maison du Livre Français, 1930

First edition. Quarto (200 x 147 mm overall). No. 11 of 24 copies on Japon impérial (tête d’édition, of the entire edition of 764 copies). Decorated with two original woodcuts and title vignette by Jean Chièze and woodcut ornaments throughout by Ph. Burnot. Publisher’s original cream wraps printed in red and black on front cover and in black on spine (in apparently original glassine, near pristine save for chip on bottom of spine), author’s name printed in black on front cover and spine, uncut and unopened. Collates [1 l.], 1 l. (half title, justification verso), 1 l. (woodcut frontispiece verso), 1. l (title), pp. [9]-74, 1 l. (table recto), 1 l. (publisher’s advertisement recto), 1 l. (achevé d’imprimeur recto). Fine. Karaïskakis-Chapon 150.

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