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FIRST EDITION illustrated with 5 burin engravings by Stranley William Hayter.
ONE OF THE 50 NUMBERED COPIES ON HOLLANDAfter 6 copies on Japon.

Precious copy from the author's grandmotherbearing this autograph signed letter:

"to my grandmother
that I won't forget,
to the granny of my childhood
which has not yet passed
with all my affection.
Georges.
June 1932".

The autograph manuscript is enclosed, composed six years before its publication, of the poem in five parts that opens the collection: Marquis de Sade3 pages (210 x 320 mm), black ink. Dated from December 1925 to January 1926, it shows a few differences with the printed version: change of article, repetition, and two verses missing.

"IV [...] 
you were rowing through the bubbles
it came out
wings
a smile of absinthe irritated the demons
heatwaves 
the foot caught in the back hemispheres

your tongue under the vaults
funeral wreaths hung
in armpit pendants".

Complete with subscription form.

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