René CREVEL / 2 signed letters + First Edition + a long handwritten dedication

  

Two signed autograph letters from "René Crevel" [to Christiane Loriot de la Salle] [Paris] and Davos Platz, s. 1932 / 1934, totaling 4 pages. Period fold marks, very slight browning, small restorations. A hole in the sheet of the first letter, as Crevel pressed too hard with his pen on the paper; he apologizes for this in the postscript.

Two letters from the writer updating on his literary news and travel plans. Staying with André Breton at 42 rue Fontaine, Crevel writes: "We are all working a lot. There is so much to do. It feels like a real spring, which means an incomprehensible summer. Will we have the pleasure of going south?

So many necessities compel us to this Paris. Tell Bousquet, to whom I am writing a letter, that I will write to him soon, but I am up to my neck in proofreading. You see, we have vitality, energy enough to burst through the paper.

" In the second letter, sent from the sanatorium in Davos Platz, Switzerland, he apologizes for his prolonged silence to his correspondent. "Yes, you are right, this silence is not chic, but there was Paris with its procession of troubles, then 15 days in Loèche-les-Bains, a little hole in the ground, and now here is Davos with a Sahara-like temperature. I am sad to know that things are not going too well for you. But finally, I hope that at [the sanatorium of] Sancellemoz you will be well taken care of, though I have, as for myself, more trust in Swiss doctors. The poet is in Paris, which is not too good for him, but he is poor.

I saw Michel Simon in Paris, returning from Venice. Thank you for your news and soon for others that I hope will be better, truly good. Sincerely, René Crevel [He adds:] and that means René Crevel.

" Suffering from tuberculosis since his youth and experiencing significant nervous disorders, Crevel made two stays at the Davos Platz sanatorium, in 1932 and 1934. During this period, literary activity leaves little respite for Crevel. After the Parisian agitation, the long months spent in the sanatorium are painful for him, and winter does nothing to improve his morale. He dislikes Switzerland and regularly complains about it to his correspondents. René Crevel Les pieds dans le plat Éditions du Sagittaire, Paris, 1933, 12 x 19 cm.

Original edition in press service after 15 copies on Japan. Binding in half red shagreen, spine with five raised bands adorned with golden floral motifs. With a long and beautiful autograph dedication from the author, fully written on the front page, extending onto a mounted sheet: "Copy of Mrs.

Loriot de la Salle to a book I respond with a book and to your kind letter I respond with a visit next week with the regret that this book is nothing but love [allusion to Loriot de la Salle's novel, published simultaneously in the Cahiers de la quinzaine] and with my most friendly regards and memories for you and your mother, René Crevel." Ex libris (Georges Auguste Dormeuil).

Corner missing on the second sheet of the dedication, without loss of text. Paper uniformly yellowed, a pleasant copy. Christiane Loriot de la Salle Georges Auguste Dormeuil.