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1962Best.-Nr. 523703Paris: Au Vent D'Arles 1962. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Hors commerce issue limited to 155 copies. Quarto. 37pp. Tan printed wrappers. Covers are slightly toned with very faint foxing else a near fine unopened copy. An elusive title in this 1962 edition published by Au Vent D'Arles and issued with the text sheets only reserved for distribution hors commerce by St. John Perse Georges Braque and Janine Cremieux. OCLC locates 11 copies; six in the U.S. The Getty copy in their description states: "No etchings accompany this ed." Oiseaux was also separately published along with etchings by Georges Braque under the title L'Ordre des Oiseaux 1963. This is one of a few copies reserved for Saint-John Perse not numbered and designated in type on the colophon leaf: "Exemplaire Saint-John Perse" and Signed by St-John Perse in ink on the limitation page. This copy is also Inscribed by St.-John Perse to Lincoln Kirstein on the front flyleaf: "A Lincoln Kirstein pour qui la vie est creation. Amicalement St-John Perse Washington 1963." Kirstein started the influential little magazine Hound and Horn while still a Harvard student and cofounded the New York City Ballet with George Balanchine in 1946. His sister Mina Kirstein Curtiss fluent in French was a Smith College professor and she also translated and edited publications by French authors including Saint-John Perse with whom she had a close friendship. Au Vent D'Arles unknown
1962Best.-Nr. 523703Paris: Au Vent D'Arles 1962. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Hors commerce issue limited to 155 copies. Quarto. 37pp. Tan printed wrappers. Covers are slightly toned with very faint foxing else a near fine unopened copy. An elusive title in this 1962 edition published by Au Vent D'Arles and issued with the text sheets only reserved for distribution hors commerce by St. John Perse Georges Braque and Janine Cremieux. OCLC locates 11 copies; six in the U.S. The Getty copy in their description states: "No etchings accompany this ed." Oiseaux was also separately published along with etchings by Georges Braque under the title L'Ordre des Oiseaux 1963. This is one of a few copies reserved for Saint-John Perse not numbered and designated in type on the colophon leaf: "Exemplaire Saint-John Perse" and Signed by St-John Perse in ink on the limitation page. This copy is also Inscribed by St.-John Perse to Lincoln Kirstein on the front flyleaf: "A Lincoln Kirstein pour qui la vie est creation. Amicalement St-John Perse Washington 1963." Kirstein started the influential little magazine Hound and Horn while still a Harvard student and cofounded the New York City Ballet with George Balanchine in 1946. His sister Mina Kirstein Curtiss fluent in French was a Smith College professor and she also translated and edited publications by French authors including Saint-John Perse with whom she had a close friendship. Au Vent D'Arles unknown books
Best.-Nr. 9075Paris, NRF, 1975. 28 x 20 cm, 33 pp.-[3] ff. Relié plein box marron glacé orné dun listel vertical central et de deux triangles obtus dont la base repose sur lextérieur, mosaïqués ton sur ton, de part et dautre de laxe central décor inversé formé de 2 listels bruns verticaux sur lesquels saccroche un double cercle de même couleur englobant le sommet du triangle, doublures et gardes de daim gris, tranches dorées sur témoins, couvertures et dos conservés, chemise demi-box gris, étui (reliure signée P.L. Martin, 1977). Étui légèrement sali, une trace légère sur le premier plat sinon exemplaire en très bel état dans une somptueuse reliure mosaïquée de Pierre-Lucien Martin. Édition originale, un des 55 exemplaires numérotés sur Hollande Van Gelder (suivi par 105 ex. sur vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre). Provenance : Irène et Robert Delmas (ex-libris contrecollé sur la page de garde). Réf. : Catalogue de vente Bibliothèque Robert et Irène Delmas, Étude Couturier Nicolay, Drouot, 4 et 5 mars 1985, première partie, n° 247. Le catalogue mentionnait erronément 50 ex. sur Hollande.
Best.-Nr. 9075Paris, NRF, 1975. 28 x 20 cm, 33 pp.-[3] ff. Relié plein box marron glacé orné dun listel vertical central et de deux triangles obtus dont la base repose sur lextérieur, mosaïqués ton sur ton, de part et dautre de laxe central décor inversé formé de 2 listels bruns verticaux sur lesquels saccroche un double cercle de même couleur englobant le sommet du triangle, doublures et gardes de daim gris, tranches dorées sur témoins, couvertures et dos conservés, chemise demi-box gris, étui (reliure signée P.L. Martin, 1977). Étui légèrement sali, une trace légère sur le premier plat sinon exemplaire en très bel état dans une somptueuse reliure mosaïquée de Pierre-Lucien Martin. Édition originale, un des 55 exemplaires numérotés sur Hollande Van Gelder (suivi par 105 ex. sur vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre). Provenance : Irène et Robert Delmas (ex-libris contrecollé sur la page de garde). Réf. : Catalogue de vente Bibliothèque Robert et Irène Delmas, Étude Couturier Nicolay, Drouot, 4 et 5 mars 1985, première partie, n° 247. Le catalogue mentionnait erronément 50 ex. sur Hollande.
