Eugène GUILLEVIC.
Requiem. Paris, Éditions Sagesse, Librairie Tschann, no date [1938].
Booklet in-8, half black morocco with small corners, smooth spine, brick calf title page, brick waxed paper boards, linings and endpapers, untrimmed, gilt head, black illustrated paper covers and spine, case (D.-H. Mercher).
Rare first edition. First book of the poet : it is dedicated to Jules Supervielle.
Signed autograph letter : For Ilarie and Colomba Voronca / with all my heart / Guillevic.
The meeting of the Romanian surrealist poet Ilarie Voronca and his wife Colomba was to be decisive for Eugène Guillevic (1907-1997); widowed in 1946, Colomba became the companion of the poet, who is one of the rare poets of his generation who owe nothing to surrealism.
