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ORIGINAL EDITION illustrated with 32 astrophotographs by Marcel de Kérolyr.
ONE OF THE FIRST 7 COPIES ON CHINEfollowed by 13 ex. on Japon, 25 ex. on Hollande, 50 ex. on pur-fil, 155 ex. on Alfa, 6430 ex. on châtaignier

"A vast prose poem, sometimes delirious, The Weight of Heaven is divided into three parts: Dance of modern souls, Free sizes and The beauty of the individual. In fact, the theme of the pollution and nuisance caused to man by modern-day machinery is taken up and developed at length [...] According to Michelfelder, Real Wealthit's the poem of the man from Regain, The Weight of Heaven is the poem of the men of Battles in the mountainsthe poem of man at the extreme limit of matter".
(Maurice Chevaly, Giono alive : Our friend Jean le bleu, 1994). A few months before the outbreak of war, Giono also asserts his hatred of the "dictatorial stench", "the partisan is necessarily a warrior",  "Parties and leaders must be destroyed. There is only greatness in the individual and in freedom.". His pacifist stance remained unchanged and earned him two prison terms in 1939 and 1944.

A very rare edition in its original booklet, in ideal condition for admiring the beautiful, fully illustrated cover.