Description
RARE FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF THE FIRST 20 NUMBERED COPIES ON HOLLANDEThe edition is followed by 20 copies on arches and 210 copies on Marais vellum.
Inscribed and signed by the author full page in Latin :
"Habe semper in memoria atque in pectore ut tamquam scopulum sic fugias inauditum atque insolens verbum C.Julius Caesar. O beate Sesti, summa breuis uitae nos uetat inchoare longam. Horace.
Adrien Bertrand Pulcherrimus e poetis
Maximus inter poetas
Poetissimus poetarum..."
Born in Nyons, Adrein Bertrand moved to Paris at an early age, publishing two volumes of verse and founding the magazine The Chimeras. An anti-militarist, he nevertheless joined the troops without batting an eyelid, and even behaved like a hero when he killed six Germans he came across by chance. Wounded by shrapnel in Lorraine, he died slowly, but survived long enough to finish the war. The call of the soilPrix Goncourt 1916. He died on 18 November 1917.
Bound in the Bradel style of the period. Bordeaux half-percaline, gilt title, cover preserved. Covers a little crushed.
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