Description

FIRST EDITION.
Off-commerce copy on China paper printed specially for Paul Valéry (printed on the print receipt) comprising 2 photographic portraits, 31 woodcuts and 1 drypoint by Székély de Doba; it also includes 5 hors-texte etchings by Székély de Doba reserved for 61 first copies (5 Chine, 6 Vélin d'Arche, one Whatman, 5 Japon Ancien and 44 Japon impérial)

Includes, in addition to facsimiles (fragment of the manuscript of Narcisse and facsimile autograph of The Crisis of the Mind), several unpublished works by Valéry: "Notes and unpublished thoughts"(which will reappear in Analecta [1926] and Suite [1930]), an unpublished letter and an unpublished verse reproduced in the text by Valery Larbaud.
Texts by René Boysleve, Valery Larbaud, Francis de Miomandre, Paul Souday, Frédéric Lefèvre...

Karaïskakis-Chapon 68