L'homme de chair et l'homme reflet, édition originale

Réf. 39350

€ 380.00

Max JACOB

Paris - Simon Kra - 1924

Bookbinder : DELPIERRE-VINDING.
Format : In-12 carré
Number of volumes : 1 volume.
Binding : Bound.
Collation : 256 pp.
Language : Français

Half-marbled ebony binding. Smooth spine with date in tail. Top edge gilt. Blankets and spines kept. To great witnesses. Binding signed DELPIERRE-VINDING Decorated with a frontispiece portrait of Max Jacob photographed by Man Ray.

FIRST EDITION. This one one of the 35 copies on Lafuma, third paper, after 15 copies on Japan and 20 copies on Holland.

Born in Quimper in 1876, in a Jewish family, Max Jacob moved to Paris, where he met many painters, such as Picasso and writers, such as Apollinaire. On September 22, 1909, he recounted that Christ appeared to him on the wall of his room; he converted to Catholicism and was baptized on February 18, 1915; Picasso was his godfather. Then, he went into exile in Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire on the advice of a priest friend, from 1921 to 1928, then from 1936 until his arrest in the village by the Germans on 24 February 1944, then deported to the Drancy camp where he died on 5 March 1944. He rests at the Saint-Benoît cemetery.

Very pleasant copy.