GERMAIN, Louise-Denise] - DERÈME, Tristan.

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GERMAIN, Louise-Denise] - DERÈME, Tristan.
Les Pommes du figuier. Paris, à l'enseigne de la verdure dorée, 1927. 2 copies in a small volume in-8 [192 x 140] of 31 pp., (4) ff. the first and last 2 blank; 31 pp, (4) ff. the first and the last 2 blank: shaded green calf, boards decorated with brown-tinted branches, author's name and date in capitals, gold or silver lamé on the first board, two circles lamé in the same way in the center of the second board, smooth spine, framed in green shagreened calf on the inside, decorated with a double gilt fillet, painted linings and endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, spine folder and flap bands in shaded green calf, case (Canape and Corriez - Louise-Denise Germain). First edition. Unique copy out of trade, "under double cover and including the text of this work printed on Japon and then on Rives for Mr Louis Barthou" (justification sheet on laid paper added at the head). It is enriched by an autograph letter signed on the added justification sheet, also signed by the publisher: to Monsieur // Louis Barthou // The publisher, // Tissot. // The author, // Tristan Derème // And may you be pleased, // my dear Master, with this little // book - the first one to be published under the sign of the Verdure // Dorée - and in which it speaks of // Bearn. // In respectful homage // from your affectionately // devoted // T ristan Derème There is also a beautiful and long letter from the author to Louis Barthou and the complete autograph manuscript of the text, inserted in the text (18 pages in-12 oblong), at the end of which the poet noted: "Poor draft or, more pompously, "original manuscript" of Les Pommes du Figuier, made in Saint-Pie d'Oléron Sainte-Marie, to Mr. Louis Barthou in respectful homage and very cordially. Tristan Derème. 3-XII-1927." Exquisite decorated binding. "It is difficult not to pronounce here the word "talking binding", in front of these tinted ramifications almost worked with a gouge, which occupy all the surface of the plates shaded with green, taken up on the watercolors of the endpapers where the fruits, this time, have grown" (Fabienne Le Bars). Spine of the folder faded and split. Provenance : Louis Barthou, with ex-libris and dedication (sale III, 1936, n° 1261). Exhibition : Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 2017, n° 67.
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