SAINT-JOHN PERSE. AMERS. - Lot 148

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SAINT-JOHN PERSE. AMERS. - Lot 148
SAINT-JOHN PERSE. AMERS. Paris, Gallimard, 1957: in-4 (260 x 195 mm), 187-[5] pp. paperback. First edition of this collection published a few months before Saint-John Perse was awarded the Nobel Prize. One of 30 first copies on Hollande Van Gelder (n°26). Autograph full-page letter: "to Bernard Gheerbrant, Breton by choice and Celtic by conviction, for whom the poetic thing is like a thing of the sea. St John Perse, Presqu'île de Giens, 1962". Enclosed: SAINT-JOHN PERSE. Correspondence with Bernard Gheerbrant, 1962. 3 autograph letters signed: 4 pp. in-4 (280 x 215 mm) in black ink on wove paper. Autograph correspondence addressed to Bernard Gheerbrant concerning the Saint-John Perse et la mer exhibition organized at La Hune from October 25 to November 20, 1962. The first two letters, both dated May 5, 1962, are addressed from Washington: "En hâte, cher ami, ce premier choix de 15 photos dont vous utiliserez ce que vous jugerez bon, elles sont toutes photos privées et inédites, appartenant à ma femme. She would very much like to see them again in Giens. and relies for that on your good care." [...] "You have here much more than you need, so you don't need to ask Gallimard or the agencies for anything". The third letter, dated October 17, 1962, is addressed from Les Vigneaux: "Dear friend, I don't quite see how I can respond to the wish you sent me. The master lines in red on your beautiful nautical charts, at your request, were not intended to be limited to the route of particular cruises, but to cover, and often summarize, in a nutshell, everything I've ever seen at sea in the course of a man's life, since my island childhood. They are therefore the result of multiple itineraries, often superimposed, of all my navigations, coastal or deep-sea, from ocean liners to yachting races, small or large, coastal or deep-sea fishing trips, and sea outings with natives. The ''circumstances of voyages'' are irrelevant, the ''dates'' are fortuitous, and as for the ''names'' and ''types'' of ships, they range from the liners and yachts of friends to the family sailing ships of my childhood, via too many types of European schooners of American schooners, and native fishing barques on various seas, or even ''tramps'' or small exotic cargo ships. [...]"
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