Eugène GUILLEVIC.
Executory. Poèmes. Paris, Gallimard, 1947.
In-12, black half-maroquin with small corners, smooth spine, brick calf title, brick waxed paper boards, linings and endpapers, untrimmed, gilt head, covers and spine preserved, case (D.-H. Mercher).
First edition.
One of the 13 first copies on vellum pur fil Lafuma Navarre, this one being the first of the three non-trade copies (ex. a).
Moving and long autograph letter signed on the false title:
To Colomba, my love always / stronger, always deeper, / To Colomba to whom I owe consciousness / and joy, / To Colomba - that she remembers / what I was before May 1939- / To Colomba, without whom I would not have / deserved these poems / To Colomba as warmth and sunshine / EG / August 31, 47.
