La Messe La-Bas
Gallimard, 1936.
8vo, typographic softcover wrappers, bevelled edges, 127pp. Association copy, inscribed by the poet to the front endpaper. “A Florence Meyer Son vieiel ami Claudel.” Florence Meyer, American photographer, was the daughter of Washington Post heiress and philanthropist Agnes Meyer, a close friend, patron and correspondent of Claudel. Wrappers toned, creases to spine, small chip to front wrap, toning to pages. Binding tight though brittle. Contents clean. Thirteenth edition of the original 1917 poem, a long liturgical sequence about an experience of the Catholic mass in Brazil. Printed together with L’Offrande du Temps (1917). A nice copy.
. Good.
Price: $100.00
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