Henri BOSCO(1888-1976, novelist) / "Eglogues de la Mer", Editions Les Terrasses de Lourmarin, Lourmarin de Provence,1928, paperback (11.5 x 19 cm) first edition from a total run of 350 copies, this one on Montgolfier(watermark), unnumbered (30 announced copies of this first paper), unpaginated (36 pages plus covers), illustrated cover, 2 original unsigned woodcuts in the text, copy enriched with an important autograph letter signed by Henri BOSCO to the Provencal painter Alfred LOMBARD(1864-1973): "A Alfred Lombard, Marseillais, ces vers de la côte, à la voile, A Alfred Lombard, le peintre (souvenir des beaux fonds d'azur de P...), le poète, (car il l'est), le chanteur, l'ami, le dieu, comme le proclame Girieud*, et à Madame Lombard, ces vers d'un petit matelot des Mers" (* Pierre Girieux, Provençal painter and friend of Alfred Lombard).

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