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Lot n° 129

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Including: -Paul Fort, L'arbre des fées. Paris, Flammarion, 1942. Dedicated "To Monsieur André Lebras, in friendly homage, Paul Fort". -Paul Fort, Mes Mémoires. Paris, Flammarion, 1944. Dedicated by the author "To Monsieur André Lebras, these Memoirs of an old trouvère from my old France, in very friendly homage" and "Conseil, il faut nous aimer sur terre. You must love us alive. Don't believe in the cemetery. You must love us first. Thy dust and my dust shall become the winds." -Paul Fort, Florilège des Ballades Française. Paris, L'amitié par le Livre, 1941. Copy number 17 on Japanese paper containing an original page from the Florilège. Dedicated "Light is the life of all my thoughts. To Monsieur André Lebras, with the friendly remembrance of an old poet of old France." -Paul Fort, Contes de ma sœur l'Oie et de mon frère le Jars. Paris, Flammarion, 1947. Dedicated "With the most distinguished homage, the most cordial memory and the best wishes for 1948 from the old trouvère his friend to Mr André Lebras"... "In this book of fairy tales and poems, the poet's imagination will be the only Fairy". -Paul Fort, Le bol d'air. Paris, Flammarion, 1946. Dedicated " To Monsieur A. Lebras, from a French poet, these songs to the taste of France, with my distinguished tributes and a very friendly remembrance, Paul Fort. Que suis je? un arbre à poèmes : un poémier". -Paul Fort, La ronde des mondes. Paris, Flammarion, 1922. Dedicated "To André Lebras, very kindly. Paul Fort". -Paul Fort, Fantômes de chaque jour. Paris, Flammarion, 1925. "These joys and sorrows of a poet to Monsieur André Lebras, who was willing to show himself the friend of a trouvère and a patriarch of the island of France." -Benjamin Peret, Le deshonneur des poètes. Mexico City, Poetry and Revolution, 1945. -Serge Lifar, Charlotte Grisi. Paris, Albin Michel, 1941. Dedicated "To Monsieur André Lebras, friendly homage". -Serge Lifar, Giselle,