Description
ORIGINAL EDITION AND COMPLETE COLLECTION of the literary and artistic review of Reims Le Pampre (1922-1925), directed by René Druart, an antechamber to the Grand Jeu.
Complete set in 24 issues (18 deliveries), complete with plates and 13 supplements, as well as the rare supplement to nos. 13-14, ".Vowels"by Marcel Caruel, printed in 5 colours on butter paper A handsome typographic model based on Arthur Rimbaud's poem of the same name.
The copy is full of :
- a photographic portrait of René Druart at his desk, pasted on the back of the first blank page,
- a black etching by Joseph Delfosse, "Faubourg", signed and numbered 97/100, depicting Reims Cathedral,
- an autograph postcard from Rita del Noiram, captioned "from the poet Rita del Noiram (Marion) to Mrs Ernest Kalas" :
2 July / Dear friend / It's been a long time since we last heard from you. Has there been any improvement at last? I so wish it had! / I have received a kind invitation from the Academy. What has become of Pampre? Do you know if Druart has received my anthology sent in January? From the bottom of our hearts we are with you/ Rita
Eugène Dupont's copywith an illustrated bookplate bearing the mottoWool, feathers and sound". Eugène Dupont (1859-1941), an annalist and writer from Reims, worked with Ernest Kalas, one of the illustrators of the Pampre, à Reims, echoes and visions of the past (1921). This work is mentioned on p. 26 of issue 2, along with a biographical note on the author. A wool buyer, Eugène Dupont published a monograph on the subject, Wool in France (1907), then devoted himself to writing, composing plays and works of local history, including the chronicle collection La Vie rémoise. He also published in the Grande Revue a translation of Anticipations by H. G. Wells.
With contributions by René Maublanc, Roger Vaillant, Germaine Lepage, Roger Lecomte, etc., illustrated by André-Édouard Marty, Adolphe Willette, Eugène Bourguoin, Ernest Kalas...
René Maublanc, the editorial secretary and a great promoter of haiku in France, published an anthology of "French haikai" in issue 10-11, comprising 283 haiku, 173 of them previously unpublished, written by 48 poets.
Several of the contributors to the Pampre were among the founders of the avant-garde magazine from Reims The Great Game (1928-1932).
Charming copies bound in 4 volumes of taupe percaline à la Bradel signed Provost, with covers and publisher's leaflets.
Bound in the Bradel style, full taupe cloth, spine decorated with fillets and a gilt fleuron, black leather title page, covers preserved (binding signed P. Provost). Some discolouration to the upper cover of the first volume.
