Chansons de France. Dessin de Fernand Leger. (Poets' Messages.) by Ivan Goll - 1940

(New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1940. First edition. Toning toward edges of covers, a couple of small nicks, rumpling to upper corner, a delicate pamphlet.. 8vo, printed wrappers, sewn. One of 700 numbered copies on Chippendale Offset paper, the entire edition. A Presentation copy, inscribed by Goll on the inside front wrapper to the American patron of poetry, Marie Bullock. Part of the series called Poet's Messages, produced as a gesture of sustenance for poetry and art during wartime. With two copies of the original prospectus inserted.

New York (The Gotham Book Mart), 1940.. (16)pp. Line-drawn cover design by Léger. Sm. 4to. Dec. self-wraps., stitched with red thread. Glassine d.j. A copy numbered in red, from the limited edition of 700 in all, printed on Chippendale Offset. Unspecified édition de tête, in which the blooms of the flowers on the cover--superimposed on a sketchily drawn map of France--have been hand-colored by Léger in red and blue, and initialled in ink by the artist. Published in New York, where both Léger and Ivan Goll were in exile during the war years, these very classical Gallic poems express Goll’s anguished longing for his lost country. Partly uncut. A fine copy.

New York (The Gotham Book Mart), 1940.. (16)pp. Line-drawn cover design by Léger. Sm. 4to. Dec. self-wraps., stitched with red thread. A copy numbered in red, from the limited edition of 700 in all, printed on Chippendale Offset. Unspecified édition de tête, in which the blooms of the flowers on the cover--superimposed on a sketchily drawn map of France--have been hand-colored by Léger in red and blue, and initialled in ink by the artist. Published in New York, where both Léger and Ivan Goll were in exile during the war years, these very classical Gallic poems express Goll’s anguished longing for his lost country. Partly uncut. A fine copy, unopened.