Cluzel, Magdeleine [Author]; Toutain, J. [Preface]

MIMES ET POETES ANTIQUES (ESSAY SUR L'ANTIQUITÉ) [Signed]

Paris: Les Éditions du Scorpion, 1957. First Edition.

Octavo, 155 pages, plus illustrations. In Good minus condition. Spine is white toned brown, with black letters. Paper wrapper is moderately age toned, with a large, faint stain in the bottom fore corner of the front cover. Spine is somewhat wrinkled, with a small closed tear across the midpoint. Rubbing to all edges, mild wrinkling and bumping at the fore corners. Wrapper spine is mostly separated from the text block and remains attached near the tail; binding somewhat loose as a result. Text block is age toned, with rubbing to the fore corners, moderate edge wear, and a faint stain on the bottom edge. Page edges uncut on majority of signatures. Inscribed by author in blue ink on half title page: "To Mr. William Bird, with sincere compliments from the author / M. Cluzel". Also includes a business card from the author, also inscribed: "membre adherent ste' [sic] des gens de lettres". Rust stain from paperclip on business card and dedication page. Shelved in Room A.

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Special Collections - Upstairs

Price: $100

NOTES

Bill Bird was an American publisher best known for running the Three Mountains Press, a small press that published many prominent modernists in the 1920s including Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon, with Ezra Pound serving as editor. Over a period of two and a half years he published 9 works. Concurrently he founded Consolidated Press Service and worked there as a journalist from 1920-1933, when he joined the New York Sun as chief foreign correspondent. Forced to flee France after the Nazi invasion, he wrote articles warning of war. After WWII he moved to Tangier and was the editor of the Tangier Gazette.

This title was among Bird's private collection, having been carted by him from Paris (where he stayed until 1940), to Spain, Tangiers, and finally back to Paris and by descent to the US.