First Folio

OEUVRES [with Autographed Letter Signed].

Valery, Paul (1871-1945).

Oxford: Editions du Sagittaire (and N.R.F.), 1930-38.

First edition. No. 70 of 150 copies on Arches paper (total edition of 1225 copies). Printed by Maurice Darantiere. Eight volumes. Quarto. L'Ame et la Danse, Eupalinos of l'Architecte, Paradoxe sur l'Architecte (1931); Monsieur Teste, La Soiree, Lettre d'Emilie, Le Log-Book Quelques Epitres (1931), Variete, premier volume (1934); Variete, deuxiene volume (1937); Discours (1935); L'Idee Fixe, Socrate et son Medicin (1936); Pieces sur l'Art (1938); Les Divers Essais sur Leonard de Vinci (1938). Bound by Minos, Paris in 3/4 green morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., the spines with gilt titles and gilt floral decorations with onlays, original wrappers bound in. Spines evenly faded to mellow brown and with minor rubbed spots, all quite sound and presentable, contents fine. Item #18987

Later expanded to 12 volumes. Most libraries searched hold only scattered volumes of this important edition.
With the bookplates of Serbia's first foreign minister to France after World War I (?).
With an AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED by Valery laid in.

Price: $1,250.00