Louis ARAGON. En étrange pays dans mon pays lui-même. In Fre - Lot 40

Louis ARAGON. En étrange pays dans mon pays lui-même. In French in the text and Brocéliande. Paris, Éditions Pierre Seghers, 1947. In-12, soft blue rawhide binding decorated with painted marbling, spine with visible stitching, author's name and title on three pieces of black-tinted leather with mosaic gilded marbling, two semicircular pieces of wood on the second board, gray suede lining, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, slipcase (Antonio P.N.). First current edition of the collection including En français dans le texte and Brocéliande, preceded by De l'exactitude historique en poésie. Originally published, without the preface, in 1943 by Ides et Calendes in Neuchâtel. Autograph letter to the poet Paul Eluard on the title page: A Paul, c'était // le bon temps qu'on se rencontrait // à la Gare de Lyon // et qu'on // était quatre // affectionately // Louis. This meeting at the Gare de Lyon in early 1943 was the first since Aragon's break with the Surrealists. In the tribute he read at the inauguration of the Lycée Paul Eluard many years later, Aragon recalled the event: "It was on our first trip to Paris after the landings in North Africa that, to our great and sweet surprise, we saw Nusch and Paul waiting for us at the gate of the Gare de Lyon platform. We'd never seen each other since my break with the Surrealists." Beautiful softcover binding by Antonio P. N.