357 - SIMON (Jacques). *L'Île lointaine*. Paris, n.p., 1961. Small 8vo (147 x 190 mm), loose-leaf in a plain parchment-style cover, cardboard slipcase with laces, red spine, 27 pp.

SIMON (Jacques). *L'Île lointaine*. Paris, n.p., 1961. Small 8vo (147 x 190 mm), loose-leaf in a plain parchment-style cover, cardboard slipcase with laces, red spine, 27 pp. A short story on the theme of exponential population growth. It is illustrated by the author with 26 reproductions of small black-and-white sketches. Printed in a run of 115 numbered copies; No. 52 of 70 on pure-fiber Marais paper, featuring on the first endpaper an ORIGINAL DRAWING by J. Simon in ink and pen, colored with colored pencils, on thin paper applied to the page.(132 x 82 mm), signed and inscribed in ink, depicting a group of women in conversation, with an E.A.S. "To the Michel Lefevres, with much affection, the Jacques Simons" and an autograph note signed "Uncle Jacques" on a loose sheet dated 9/17/61 addressed to his nephews following the death of his sister. A few small pinholes on the endpapers.