Douze Petits Écrits

Paris: Librairie Gallimard, 1926. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 650 copies, this being copy no.267. Slim octavo (18.5cm); publisher's original sage green wrappers, printed in black; original glassine overlay; [ii],[8],9-44,[4]pp, with a lithographed frontispiece portrait of the author by Mania Mavro; text is entirely in French. Hint of sunning to spine, light wear to spine ends, with some mild creases to wrapper extremities and a sprinkle of foxing to upper edge of textblock; Very Good+ or better, with most of the pages unopened. In a spine-sunned glassine, shownig shallow losses to upper and lower spine panel, and some corresponding creasing to extremities. First book by the French poet who was briefly affiliated with the Surrealist movement before joining the Communist Party, gathering a dozen prose poems. 85854.