Description

FIRST EDITION.

ONE OF 25 OFF-PRICE COPIES RESERVED FOR EMPLOYEES. This one on blue-grey vellum, total edition of 3735 copies.

Inscribed and signed by the author :

"To Madame and François Mauriac in memory of days spent together without any responsibility whatsoever
typos and objections from editors.
this very cordial and lively tribute
Jacques Debû-Bridel

François Mauriac is mentioned at length in this story about Édition de Miniuit :
"The collection ofÉditions de Minuit François Mauriac. Jean Paulhan was going to talk to him about the Éditions de Minuit and he had sensed this. Mauriac was willing to do whatever he could for them, but he didn't see, he said, what he could give them at the moment. [...] I insisted that Mauriac give us something, he promised, but he didn't know when. [...] Then, in his study, Mauriac read to me what was to become the Cahier Noir.  I was both delighted and deeply moved. These would be the most beautiful pages in the Édition de Minuit".

Nice provenance.