[Poems] : corrected proofs, [1921-1923].

Accession number: 
PML 195783
Author: 
Radiguet, Raymond, 1903-1923.
Description: 
1 item (24 leaves) ; 28 cm
Credit: 
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2012.
Notes: 

Proofs for sixteen of Radiguet's later poems, printed on one side of variably-sized sheets, hand-corrected by the author in red and blue ink; with some pencil markings in another hand.
These hand-corrected proofs were printed ca. 1922 for a planned publication with Simon Kra titled 'Jouets du vent,' which never materialized. All but one poem (La Reine des aulnes) would appear in slightly variant forms in the posthumous edition of 'Les Joues en Feu' (1925).
The proof sheets are individually mounted on stubs and bound with an added letterpress title page: Exemplaire unique d'un recueil de poèmes de Raymond Radiguet non publié.
A later set of publisher's proofs bound with the original manuscripts are also held by the library (Cf. PML 198274).
The final poem, Le Vrai dieu de l'amour (published as Septentrion, dieu de l'amour), presumably lacking second sheet.

Binding: 
Contemporary glazed half burgundy cloth Bradel-style binding, with marbled paper sides, and title stamped in gilt on spine.
Variant Title: 

Exemplaire unique d'un recueil de poèmes de Raymond Radiguet non publié

Provenance: 
Printed for Raymond Radiguet; with the bookplate of J.S. Marchand (cat. 1936, n. 283); Bibliothèque littéraire Albert-Louis Natural (n. 555, Bergé, 8 Dec 2009).
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