Painted stars. With an original etching by André Derain. Paris, Les Éditions du Sagittaire chez Simon Kra, 1921.
In-8 square : lemon half-maroquin with bands, smooth spine, untrimmed, gilt head, cover and spine preserved (period binding).
First edition.
It is decorated with an original etching in the frontispiece by André Derain.
One of the 15 first copies on japon (nº 6).
It is enriched by an additional print in bistre, on China paper, of the engraving by Derain as well as the engraved vignette of the title, also in bistre and on China paper.
Autograph signed on the first blank page:
To Paul Eluard one of the few poets I admire
P. Reverdy
Very fine provenance.
Paul Eluard, for whom the copy was bound at the time, enriched it with the autograph manuscript of Vieux port, one of the texts of the book, mounted at the head.
Ex-libris of Paul Eluard drawn by Max Ernst with the motto Après moi le sommeil.
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