Description

Thirteenth book in the collection "The habits of poetry".
One of 70 numbered copies on Montval paper, all signed by the author and illustrated with a fold-out frontispiece, original engraving burin and etching by Stanley William Hayter, the only large paper edition.
The current edition, without the engraving and under a different cover, is printed on coloured paper.

MOVING DOUBLE AUTOGRAPH SIGNED LETTER, the first to Georges Hugnet's father :

to Georges Hugnet
my father
in memory
black novels
that enchanted and filled my childhood
Georges HUGNET

The second to his son Nicolas :

And now..,
twenty-five years on
to my dearest son
Nicolas
from his grandfather
who would have loved it
his dad with all his heart
G.

This text appeared for the first time as a preface to a suite of 6 burins, also entitled theApocalypsegiven by Éditions Jeanne Bucher in 1932.

Be exemplary.

Coron. Les Éditions GLM, 1923-1974, p. 29