Editions de Minuit. Première édition publique... Lot n° 43

First public edition of Editions de Minuit. Paris, Editions de Minuit, 1944. 17 x 12,5 cm, 20 vols. bound in the same manner, half duck calf, smooth spine with long title and letter or star at the end, gilt head, cover and spine cons. Public reissue reserved for Belgium, in accordance with the works published clandestinely between 1942 and 1944. Edition at 2000 copies. Complete series, whose order is presented as follows by the publisher: Nuits noires, by John Steinbeck - Chroniques interdites (I), by Jean Paulhan, Yvonne Desvignes, Julien Benda, Jacques Debû-Bridel, Vercors - L'Honneur des poètes (poems by 21 French poets) - Le Musée Grévin, by François La Colère (Aragon) - La Pensée patiente (Patient Thought), by Thimerais - Le Cahier noir (The Black Notebook), by Forez (François Mauriac) - Les Amants d'Avignon (The Lovers of Avignon), by Laurent Daniel (Elsa Triolet) - Angleterre, by Argonne (Jacques Debû-Bridel) - Contes d'Auxois, by Auxois (Edith Thomas) - La Haute Fourche, by Vivarais (Pierre Bost) - Europe (poems by 35 French and foreign poets) - 33 sonnets composed in secret, by Jean Noir (Jean Cassou) - La Marche à l'étoile, by Vercors - Le Temps mort, by Minervois (Claude Aveline) - La Marque de l'homme, by Mortagne (Claude Morgan) - Péguy-Péri. Two French voices, by Jean Paulhan - New chronicles (by Charles Morgan, André Gide, Raymond Mortimer, Gabriel Audisio, Claude Bellanger, André Chamson) - In prison, by Cévennes (Jean Guehenno) - A l'appel de la liberté, by Hainaut (Georges Adam) - Le Silence de la mer, by Vercors.