[EDITIONS DE MINUIT]. L'Honneur des poètes.... - Lot 148 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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[EDITIONS DE MINUIT]. L'Honneur des poètes.... - Lot 148 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
[EDITIONS DE MINUIT]. L'Honneur des poètes. Paris, July 14, 1943. Bound with: L'Honneur des poètes II : Europe. Paris, May 1, 1944. 2 works in one volume in-12 : red morocco with four vertical gilt bands on the boards, red morocco inner frame, untrimmed, gilt head, covers and spine preserved, case (period binding). First editions of the two volumes forming L'Honneur des poètes. The second volume is one of 100 copies on Rives vellum (nº 98). No first edition for the first volume. A militant publishing house, bringing together communists and Gaullists, Minuit was a high-risk adventure that benefited from the support of writers from all sides: among the founders, the novelist Pierre Lescure and the cartoonist Jean Bruller alias Vercors, we find Aragon, Julien Benda, Jean Cassou, Jacques Debû-Bridel, Paul Eluard, Jacques Maritain, François Mauriac, Jean Paulhan, Francis Ponge, Pierre Seghers, Elsa Triolet, etc. Forced to join the maquis in 1942 to escape arrest, Pierre Lescure handed over to Paul Eluard, who was then president of the Reading Committee. The bookseller Lucien Scheler took over the editorial work. A copy of Georges Hugnet's book bearing the signatures of several of the poets who participated in the volumes on each of the false titles. Thus, on the first volume, we find the signatures of Jean Tardieu, Pierre Seghers, Lucien Scheler, Claude Sernet, Guillevic, Loÿs Masson, André Frénaud, Louis Aragon, Paul Eluard (who signed the preface of the first volume) and, on the second : Pierre Seghers, Georges Spyridaki, Lucien Scheler, Lise Deharme, Paul Eluard, Loÿs Masson, M, Michel Leiris, Jean Tardieu, André Frénaud, Louis Aragon. At the head of the second volume, Georges Hugnet has had his Ausweis issued by the Prefecture of Police on April 17, 1944 bound. Georges Hugnet participated in both collections under the pseudonym of Malo Lebleu in the first one and of Norway in the second one. A fine copy, probably bound by Georges Hugnet himself. (Vignes, Bibliographie des éditions de Minuit, nº 4 and nº 18.)
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