CLAUDEL (Paul). Set of 18 bound volumes. - Lot 92

CLAUDEL (Paul). Set of 18 bound volumes. L'Annonce faite à Marie. Paris, Éditions de la Nouvelle revue française, 1913. In-16, hardback bradel with gilt Mancini family coat of arms on spine. Published the year after the original. Autograph signed letter dated Rio 1919, with original drawing, to Marie-Rose Mancini, daughter of General Yémin Nazare Aga (Persian minister in Paris for 35 years) and widow of a French diplomat. -L'Arbre. Paris, Société du Mercure de France, 1901. In-18, bradel de percaline (contemporary binding). First collective edition, partly original. Copy with a few old marginal notes in pencil and ink on the endpapers. -L'Histoire de Tobie et de Sara. Moralité en trois actes. [Paris], Gallimard (Nrf), 1942. In-16, half-maroquin with corners, gilt head; spine faded (Alix). First edition, one of 135 numbered copies on vélin pur fil Navarre. First version of the text. -Introduction à quelques livres. Paris, A.Monnier etCie (collection Les Cahiers des Amis des livres), 1920. In-4, half-maroquin with corners; leather faded (Franz). First edition, one of 50 head copies on vergé pur fil Lafuma. Lecture delivered on May 30, 1919. -Le Livre de Christophe Colomb. Paris, Gallimard (Nrf), 1935. In-16, corner half-chagrin, gilt head; spine faded. One of 130 copies on alfa Navarre. Originally published in 1933. -LaNuit de Noël de 1914. Paris, à L'Art catholique, 1915. In-8 square, bradel boards with Mancini family coat of arms gilt on spine; a few angular stains. First edition of which only 39 copies were printed on large paper. Autograph signed letter dated 1919, to Marie-Rose Mancini. -Poèmes paroles durant la guerre de Trente Ans. [Paris], Gallimard (Nrf), 1945. In-16, hardback bradel. First edition of this collection, numbered copy in illustrated boards after a design by Paul Bonet. -Positions et propositions. Art et littérature. Paris, Librairie Gallimard (éditions de la Nouvelle revue française), 1928. In-16, half-chagrin, gilt head (LeDouarin rel.). First edition, one of 271 numbered copies on vellum pur fil Lafuma-Navarre, the only ones printed on large paper. Provenance: "A.S.H." (gilt bookplate on back cover). -Tête d'or. Paris, librairie de L'Art indépendant, 1890. In-8, brown half-chagrin, gilt head; without covers, the first of which serves as title (antique binding). First limited edition of Paul Claudel's first book. -Etc. Claudel (Paul) and André Gide. Correspondance. 1899-1926. [Paris], Gallimard (Nrf), 1949. In-8, hardback bradel. First edition, numbered copy on vellum labeur in illustrated boards after a design by Paul Bonet. -Claudel (Paul) and André Suarès. Correspondence. 1904-1938. [Paris], Gallimard (Nrf), 1951. In-8, hardback bradel. First edition, numbered copy on vellum labeur in illustrated boards after a design by Paul Bonet.