139 - Henri MICHAUX. You’re Going to Be a Father, by a certain Plume. [Saint-Maurice-d’Ételan, P. Bettencourt, 1943]. Square 16mo, paperback, illustrated color-filled cover, Plexiglas slipcase with beige box-style edges.

Henri MICHAUX. You’re Going to Be a Father, by a certain Plume. [Saint-Maurice-d’Ételan, P. Bettencourt, 1943]. Square 16mo, paperback, illustrated color-filled cover, Plexiglas slipcase with beige box-style edges. First edition printed by Pierre Bettencourt on his private press in Saint-Maurice-d’Ételan and sold “under the table in Paris”: printing was completed in December 1942. Limited edition of 350 copies on Arches paper (No. 115). Included is a list of Pierre Bettencourt’s publications, printed in 1947, with letterhead on the front and this charming handwritten, signed note, dated “an autumn Saturday”: Thank you for the letter, which amused me greatly—I must have an innate sense of legality. My father and my grandfather were doctors of law. Warm regards* Pierre B. *I meant to say: “angelic regards” What if these “angelic greetings” were addressed to Georges Bataille, author of *Mme Edwarda* (1941) under the pseudonym Pierre Angélique? (Imbert, No. 112.—List of books and pamphlets published or edited by Pierre Bettencourt, 2004, p. 32, no. 5.) Minor repairs to the endpapers.