JACOB Max. Le Roi de Béotie. Paris, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,1921.
In-8 (185 x 125 mm): 251 pp. Covers and spine preserved. Green half-maroquin with corners, spine ribbed, gilt author and title, gilt head (Honnelaitre).
First edition. One of 800 numbered copies on vellum pur fil - ours is no. 690. Enclosed is an A.L.S. from Max Jacob dated 30 April 1934, pasted before the masthead: ‘Non décidément, Partisan et ami sans doute? What kind of friendship would hold out against the blows of often divergent interests? So... enemies? Poor writer! Max Jacob’. Red pencil lines frame the text.
Scattered light foxing, more numerous from page 240 onwards.
