signé ; Paul Valery - Regards sur le monde actuel [exemplaire sur Japon / L.A.S] - 1931

Brown morocco, smooth spine decorated with a mosaic pastille evoking the terrestrial globe, ochre box lining, moiré silk guards, gilt edges, cover and spine ( Alix ). Slipcase.

Partly original edition . One of the hundred deluxe copies on Japanese paper (no. 92).

With an autograph letter signed to Jean Cassou , then a contributor to Nouvelles Littéraires . Sunday [September 6, 1931] (one p. in-8, envelope, mounted on tab at the head of the volume). " I don't know how you managed to get my 'Regards' into the 'Poésies' section of Nouvelles Litt. It's very subtle! But you did it so elegantly that nothing seems more natural ."