Perruchot

1948 · H14324 — Paris: Les 13 Epis 1948. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. No. 148 of 300 copies quarto stiff wraps housing unbound signatures 8 full page lithographs by Alde very good light age toning or yellowing to covers housed in black chemise with felt-like texture very good with some spottiness and matching slipcase very good light rubbing and soil Handsome book! Poet editor biographer he wrote a definitive biography of Toulouse-Lautrec Perruchot in 1947 in reaction to Sartrean existentialism created Epiphanism a humanist movement with a confidential audience a "mystic of man" in the troubled world of the post-war period.no doubt these stories came out of that philosophical perspective. Les 13 Epis hardcover