GALTIER-BOISSIÈRE Jean (1891-1966) écrivain et journaliste, fondateur et rédacteur du Crapouillot.

autograph manuscript [for La Vie de garçon], with original drawing by Jean OBERLÉ; 17 pages in-fol. and drawing 19,2 x 26,8 cm, vol. in-fol. bound in red half-calf (P.L. Martin). Episode from Galtier-Boissière's novel, La Vie de garçon (Éditions Mornay, 1929). In search of a girl of joy, Sylvia, the narrator goes from one brothel to another, commenting on the girls, the clients and the decor. Finally he finds Sylvia in a house in La Villette: "The other women move aside, as well-bred people. I must have been drinking the other night, she is much less pretty than I thought. That tuft of hair on her right cheek grieves me. I feel that I don't want her at all, that Sylvia. I infinitely prefer this mischievous little dogfish who is looking for the musician in a scallop shell: a real Steinlen pencil"... Jean OBERLÉ's pen and ink drawing, signed and dated "Dagorno [restaurant at La Villette] July 24, 1924", shows four men from different backgrounds sitting at a table, talking but keeping an eye on their watches; in the background, a woman is watching.