‘ELUARD, Paul’ [i.e. Eugene Grindel]. Corps Mémorable.

Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1948.

16mo. (180 x 110 mm), publisher’s paper wrappers printed in green and black, later glassine. Very light and unobtrusive sun-fading to covers, mostly at spine, internally clean. Inscribed by Eluard in blue ink on half-title. A near fine copy.

A fine association copy of the second edition, inscribed by Eluard to the celebrated publisher Albert Skira. Published a year after the first, the second edition comprises only sixty copies and includes seven previously unpublished poems of mourning for the poet’s wife Nusch, who died in 1947 (see also: Le Temps Déborde). Skira was the publisher, in a long and distinguished career, of Minotaure magazine, a Surrealist magazine that ran from 1933 to 1939. The present copy is inscribed by Eluard in a late hand ‘á mon ami Albert’ with his distinctive signature.

Joli exemplaire du seconde édition sur papier de Chine, enrichi d’un envoi autographe de l’auteur au célébre editeur Albert Skira. État presque neuf.

Éluard, La Pleiade II, p. 1346.