Null 28. ARAGON (Louis).
Elsa. Poème. Paris, Gallimard, 1959, in-8 square, pape…

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28. ARAGON (Louis). Elsa. Poème. Paris, Gallimard, 1959, in-8 square, paperback. First edition. 1/8 copies hors commerce (G) on vellum pur fil Lafuma (second paper). Beautiful letter from Aragon reproducing a stanza of a poem in blue ink. "To Pierre Consten, ces vers toute la nuit sont répétés répétés Aragon". Underneath in black ink, Elsa's signature. Enclosed is a photograph of Aragon and Elsa Triolet.

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28. ARAGON (Louis). Elsa. Poème. Paris, Gallimard, 1959, in-8 square, paperback. First edition. 1/8 copies hors commerce (G) on vellum pur fil Lafuma (second paper). Beautiful letter from Aragon reproducing a stanza of a poem in blue ink. "To Pierre Consten, ces vers toute la nuit sont répétés répétés Aragon". Underneath in black ink, Elsa's signature. Enclosed is a photograph of Aragon and Elsa Triolet.

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Louis ARAGON (1897-1982). Autograph manuscript signed, Note in vita di Madonna Elsa, [1960]; 3pages in-4, with a few erasures and corrections. Beautiful text in which Aragon talks about his poetry and acknowledges authorship of his translation of Petrarch's Five Sonnets (1947, with an etching by Picasso). This text was published at the head of the Poésies d'Aragon anthology presented by Jean Dutourd (Club du Meilleur Livre, 1960). "Cinq sonnets de Pétrarque avec une eau-forte de Picasso et les explications du traducteur" bears no other reference than the name of an imaginary publisher at La Fontaine de Vaucluse, and a date mcmxlvii. It is here for the first time that this book is admitted to be mine; it has never before appeared in the list of my works"... The myth of Petrarch and his muse Laure has always been of particular importance to Aragon, Laure often becoming a figure of Elsa, or the other way round: "I refer the curious to the Cantique à Elsa and to this part of my Henri Matisse, as yet unpublished [...]. Also to the poem at the end of Le Roman inachevé (Prose du bonheur et d'Elsa), to which I am particularly attached. [...] I would like to say here that everything I am, everything I have been, my heart, my life, my dreams, goes against a conception of poetry that makes the lyrical art of love a minor activity. For me, this art is man's highest achievement, his justification for being"... Etc. And he concludes: "And if anything remains of me, it will be, I swear, for having written everything I wrote in vita di Madonna Elsa".

Estim. 3 000 - 4 000 EUR

ARAGON (Louis). Elsa. Poème. Paris : Gallimard, [1959]. - In-4, 235 x 182: 125 pp, (1 f.), printed cover. Dark blue box, boards decorated with the title of the book repeated in entangled capital and italic letters, mosaicked in light blue, pink and mauve box, smooth spine decorated in the same spirit with the author's name in light blue box and the title repeated twice in mauve box, light blue box edge-to-edge linings and endpapers, edges gilt on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, dark blue box spine and cover bands folder, lined slipcase (P.L. Martin 1960). First edition. One of the first 26 numbered copies on Hollande van Gelder vellum (no. 3), with this handsome autograph letter from the author to Jacques Millot (1897-1980), an arachnologist but also a great bibliophile and founder of the Société de la reliure originale: to Jacques Millot, // for a lost portrait, // the only one to which I really // hold that of // ELSA // Aragon A superb copy in a period triple binding, produced for Jacques Millot by Pierre-Lucien Martin. Perfectly preserved. Provenance: Jacques Millot, with consignment from the author (1991, no. 158).

Estim. 500 - 800 EUR

ARAGON (Louis). Le fou d'Elsa. Paris, Gallimard, 1963. In-8, framed in havane morocco, smooth spine, gilt head, covers preserved (Ep. binding). First edition. One of 105 copies on pur fil, the only large paper after 35 Hollande.

Estim. 30 - 50 EUR

ARAGON (Louis) La mise à mort Éditions Gallimard, 1965 1 bound volume, cloth cover, Edition of 6,100 copies, this one numbered 408

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