68 - CLAUDEL (PAUL)

CLAUDEL (PAUL) Western Ideograms. [Paris], [Paul Blaizot], [1926]. In-4, 16 pp., paperback, printed cover. Facsimile publication of Paul Claudel’s autograph manuscript by the Blaizot bookstore. Rare edition printed in a run of 200 copies; No. 38, signed by the author. Included is a second copy of this edition, no. 18, also signed by the author and accompanied by a typewritten letter signed by the publisher. Also included by the same author: *Dodoitzu*. Poems by Paul Claudel. Paintings by Rihakou Harada. Paris, NRF, 1945. In-4 paperback, illustrated black cover with small gold highlights, bound in the Japanese style with red thread. A few very minor signs of wear at the edges of the cover, nothing serious. Cover and 30 illustrations by the Japanese painter Rihakou Harada. Print run of 5,005 copies (no. 1784). (Monod, I, 2835; Carteret, V, 50.)