Description

PART ORIGINAL EDITION, original cover by Emilienne Delacroix.
The text by Jacques Prévert, which appeared for the first time, occupies the first forty pages; that by André Vert is made up of 33 poems, some of which had appeared in The New Edition in 1945, under the title Memories of the present.

AUTOGRAPHIC SEND-ONS SIGNED by both authors with drawings and collages :

Original drawing-collage by Jacques Prévert representing a cup used as a vase for a real dried leaf:

"For Joan Story Wright
in happy memory
Jacques Prévert
When the leaf has wilted you put another flower from another country in the vase."

Original full-page colour drawing by André Verdet depicting the hills of Vence and a portrait of the dedicatee:

For Joan Story Wright
In happy memory of the beautiful country
André Verdet
St Paul on 30 July 49

On the first endpaper, autograph quote from André Verdetsigned with his monogram:

Our love raising the sea level a blue in the mud of the hills below the horizon
A. V. (Worlds and Suns)