70 - Paul ÉLUARD. *Le Phénix*, with eighteen drawings by Valentine Hugo.

Paul ÉLUARD. *Le Phénix*, with eighteen drawings by Valentine Hugo. Paris, GLM, 1951. Large 8vo, softcover with gold clasps, black goatskin with a pattern of silver leather dots and gold dots embossed with a hot iron; on the spine, a secondary stitching of ten gold clasps on wooden plates; linings in black goatskin; endpapers of untrimmed red lambskin, gilt headband, cover and spine preserved, slipcase (Sün Evrard). First edition: illustrated with 18 line drawings by Valentine Hugo. Printed in a run of 1,425 copies. (Coron, Les Éditions GLM, bibliography, no. 349.) One of the 25 head copies on Arches vellum (no. 23), signed by Paul Éluard and Valentine Hugo. Two autograph poems signed by Paul Éluard were bound at the end: -“Dominique aujourd’hui présente.” A signed autograph manuscript of 2½ pages, in-4 format, with a few autograph corrections. -“Autograph drafts signed of fourteen lines from: Écrire dessiner inscrire,” with crossings-out and corrections. 1 page, in-4. The beautiful binding by S. Evrard was completed in 2014. The illustrations have been reproduced on the facing pages.