Lot no. 211
SAINT-JOHN PERSE. 4 typescripts in sheets, in-4. Ex. [2]-15-[1] p. The title page is handwritten; it bears the dry stamp of Jeanne de Lanux, 2 Sheridan Square, New York City, repeated on the last page. The poem is dated at the end "June 1941". The title page bears the ms inscription: "jl. 3/II/42". On the last blank page, Jeanne de Lanux has noted: "Carbone d'une copie pour A.L. [Alexis Léger]". Introduction by Archibald MacLeish to a publication of Anabase in the journal Poetry. 3 p. in English. Signed at the end and dated "Washington October 1943". Introduction by Louise Varese to her translation of Éloges ans Other Poems (New York, Norton, 1944), with autograph corrections and additions in red pencil, including the date "New York, 1943". 3 p. in English. Neiges. 10 p. Pencil note at head: "proof by Roger Caillois".
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