Description
FIRST EDITION.
One of 419 numbered copies on Rives after 8 copies on Japon paper and 23 copies on Hollande.
AUTOGRAPH SIGNED MAILING:
"To Jean Voilier
his old friend
Léon-Paul Fargue
Jean Voilier was the literary and journalistic pseudonym of Jeanne Loviton (1902 - 1996). The author of four novels published between 1936 and 1989, she became famous after her sulphurous relationship with publisher Robert Denoël. She inherited the publishing house after the murder of her lover, who had made her the principal shareholder. Openly accused of murder by the publisher's wife and by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, she is, according to Jérôme Dupuis, "the most insulted figure in all of Célin's comedy".. Jeanne Loviton was also "Paul Valery's great love". Dominique Bona recently documented this relationship in a book published by Grasset in 2014, I'm crazy about you.
A fine copy, well bound by Lavaux.
Modern binding signed A.D Lavaux, half burgundy morocco. Spine decorated with gilt fillets and frames, gilt title and head, date at foot, cover and spine preserved.
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