Paris, GLM, (February) 1950.
1 vol. (115 x 195 mm) of 46 p., [2] and 1 f. In wrappers, uncut.
Partly first edition.
One of 25 copies on vélin du Marais from the deluxe issue (no. 14).
Signed presentation inscription: “Pour Louis Broder avec la vive et cordiale pensée de René Char.”
One of 25 copies on vélin du Marais from the deluxe issue (no. 14).
Signed presentation inscription: “Pour Louis Broder avec la vive et cordiale pensée de René Char.”
Art bref contains various prose texts, including Huis de la mort salutaire and Madeleine qui veillait; Premières alluvions had appeared as early as 1945, published by Fontaine, resurgences of vanished poems, some of which had appeared, in a different form, in Char’s first collection, Les Cloches sur le cœur.
Char reworked them and finally decided to publish them, in a form closer to what he had intended — some twenty years after their first drafting.
A fine copy inscribed to Louis Broder, who two years later would publish the illustrated edition of Le Rempart de brindilles; he was then at the very beginning of his distinguished career as a publisher.
L’Herne, 78b.
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