[GERMAIN, Louise-Denise] - DERÈME, Tristan.

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[GERMAIN, Louise-Denise] - DERÈME, Tristan.
Dedications. Paris, Georges Andrieux, [1928]. In-8 [213 x 160] of 25 pp, (4) ff, 1 plate : turquoise calf, black morocco vertical borders with silver lamé edging, extended to the spine sides of the jaws, author and title in silver lamé and threaded letters on the first board, smooth spine, black morocco and green box framing inside, decorated with a double silver fillet, silver paper lining and endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, black morocco spine and cover bands folder, case (Canape et Corriez 1930 - Louise-Denise Germain) . First edition. Collection of dedications by Tristan Derème, taken from works listed in the catalog of the sale of the library of an amateur in February 1928. Portrait of the author, drawn and engraved by Hermine David, taken from the first edition of Zodiaque. The signed autograph manuscript of the poem that opens the collection (7 quadrille pages in-8 oblong, with corrections and erasures) has been bound at the head. One of 50 copies on japon impérial: one of 20 hors commerce, printed especially for Louis Barthou. Beautiful sending of the author on the false title: to Mr. Louis Barthou // - but isn't it your name that we read // on the other page? - Here! a verse! - and here is, my dear Master, this little book, // if I dare to call it a book, whose sale I had to // forbid. What a century!... [Everything is sold in these seasons! What to do! - Ah! let it be... answers, if I am not mistaken, // the beginning of a verse of Verlaine. But I // did not want to give myself the ridicule // that this booklet of trifles should appear in book form, - this booklet of which you, my // dear Master, pay a respectful homage // your cordially devoted // Tristan Derème A very beautiful copy : the decoration of the linings and the endpapers on silver paper is remarkable Provenance : Louis Barthou, with bookplate (sale III, 1936, n° 1265). Exhibition : Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 2017, n° 68.
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