Unbound, unpaginated album (28.5 x 19.5 cm) with 22 leaves (11 folded sheets 28 x 38 cm each), printed on thick wove paper watermarked Arches with text and 27 vignettes, in a 29 x 20 cm slightly beige slipcase.
Publisher’s original flapped cream wrappers, lettering to front over the vignette: VERS LIBRES | par | RAYMOND RADIGUET | Champigny | Au Panier Fleuri ||
Half-title: VERS LIBRES over a ribbon covering a stick, garland, and flute.
Title: VERS LIBRES | par | RAYMOND RADIGUET || {vignette} | Champigny | Au Panier Fleuri ||
Section title: VERS LIBRES over a vignette of a girl in a hat and with an umbrella on a beach.
Illustrations: Cover vignette, frontispiece, tail- and a headpiece for the Note, and vignettes (total 27 illustrations) attributed Rojan (Feodor Rojankovsky).
Poems: Chat perché; Champigny, Usée, Les fiancés de treize ans, Saison, Le petit journal, Ébauches, II Cinématographe.
Edition: 1st; Limitation on the last page: the total print run of 125 copies, this copy is № 18.
Illustrations printed in black and stencil-coloured (au pochoir).
Catalogue raisonné: Dutel 2592; Nordmann (2): 450.
Dutel counts vignettes as 27, Christie’s (Nordmann) as 28. Dutel writes it is printed on vergé de Hollande (laid paper), our copy is as per Nordmann, on wove Arches. No one mentions the slipcase. The number of leaves: 20 per Dutel, 22 per Nordmann. Why Cinématographe numbered II is unclear.
Contributors:
Raymond Radiguet (French, 1903 – 1923) – author.
Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan; Рожанковский, Фёдор Степанович] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970) – artist.
Comparison of 1935 and 1937 editions reveals that, as usual, the earlier the better.
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