[VALÉRY (Paul)]. Paul Valéry. Paris : La... - Lot 191 - Ader

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[VALÉRY (Paul)]. Paul Valéry. Paris : La... - Lot 191 - Ader
[VALÉRY (Paul)]. Paul Valéry. Paris : La Revue Capitole, [1926] - Large in-8, paperback, filled cover. First edition of this collective work dedicated to Paul Valéry. Beginning with a preface by René Boylesve, it includes 15 texts, the first 5 by Valéry, and the others by Émile Borel, Benjamin Crémieux, René Fernandat, Valery Larbaud, Frédéric Lefèvre, Henri Massis, Francis de Miomandre, Henri Rambaud, André Rouseaux and Paul Souday. The book ends with a bibliography by Ronald Davis and Raoul Simonson. The fifth text by Paul Valéry is a facsimile of the author's handwriting. The illustration includes a portrait of Paul Valéry, as well as 15 chapter headings and 15 woodcuts drawn and engraved by André Szekely de Doba. ONE OF THE 6 COPIES ON VELIN D'ARCHES PAPER, specially published for Mr. Ronald Davis, including the colored woodcuts, 4 additional portraits of Paul Valéry including 3 drypoints by Szekely de Doba, 5 original color etchings outside the text by Szekely de Doba, a reproduction of a drawing by the author with his autograph signature, and between pages 28 and 29, a reproduction of a handwritten page enriched with colored drawings by Valéry This content differs from the justification which announces in particular "a sketch page engraved on copper and an unpublished drawing by Paul Valéry signed by the author". The sketch page is not engraved on copper, and what is signed is the reproduction of a drawing and not an original drawing. Cover soiled. Small tears at the bottom of the spine.
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