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MÉLOT DU DY Hommeries. With a portrait of the author by André Lhote, woodcut by G. Aubert. Paris Éd. de la Nouvelle Revue française 1934 In-8°. Paperback. First edition. Edition of 535 copies on vellum mock vat of Navarre paper mills, of which 35 copies on paper + 15 copies on old japon teinté marked A to O (ex. M, without the num. proof and signed by the artist). With 2 loose l.a.s., 1 p. in-4° each and under common env., dated Rixensart 15-12-42 and 4-4-43, addressed to Franz Hellens: in the 1st, he thanks him for the compliment, "the storyteller without profession [...], worried and vain at the same time [...]". He also tells him about his love of trees, and suggests that Hellens go for a walk among them; in the 2nd, he thanks him for the gift of the "Moralités" and praises their merits. He calls them "salutary", not "unhealthy", as the whole title implies.

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MÉLOT DU DY Hommeries. With a portrait of the author by André Lhote, woodcut by G. Aubert. Paris Éd. de la Nouvelle Revue française 1934 In-8°. Paperback. First edition. Edition of 535 copies on vellum mock vat of Navarre paper mills, of which 35 copies on paper + 15 copies on old japon teinté marked A to O (ex. M, without the num. proof and signed by the artist). With 2 loose l.a.s., 1 p. in-4° each and under common env., dated Rixensart 15-12-42 and 4-4-43, addressed to Franz Hellens: in the 1st, he thanks him for the compliment, "the storyteller without profession [...], worried and vain at the same time [...]". He also tells him about his love of trees, and suggests that Hellens go for a walk among them; in the 2nd, he thanks him for the gift of the "Moralités" and praises their merits. He calls them "salutary", not "unhealthy", as the whole title implies.

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