one of 325 copies

First edition of Valéry's second collection of poetry, containing his greatest poem le Cimetière marin.

First edition thus, number 145 of 325 copies on vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre, from a total edition of 2325; 4to; device to title page, head- and tail-pieces in black, slight toning to margins, occasional light offsetting from ornaments, else unmarked internally; finely bound in green morocco gilt, gilt lettering to spine, all edges gilt, moiré silk doublures and endpapers, inner dentelles gilt, some rubbing to corners and spine, spine and extremities sunned, original wrappers bound in; a very good copy.

Connolly, The Modern Movement, 31b.