Description
FIRST EDITION.
Hors-texte drawing by Noëlle Rivier, pipe portrait of the author on the title page.
ONE OF THE FIRST 50 COPIES ON HOLLANDE (before 50 copies on bouffant).
The copy bears the author's autograph signature in fine.
Written in 1935, Colourless castles was not printed until August 1941 in Rodez, where the author was demobilised. After the war, Jean Rivier moved to Vallauris and joined the Vallauris potters' group alongside Pablo Picasso, Jean Marais, Jean Gerbino, Roger Capron, Robert Picault, Alexandre Kostanda, Jean Derval and Jacques Innocenti.
This second collection of prose poems by Jean Rivier is, like the first entitled Player of all tradesis a rarity.