[Rarebooks] fa: SAINT-JOHN PERSE - EXIL - 1 of 10 COPIES THUS - 1942

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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Saint-John Perse [Alexis Leger]: Exil. Buenos Aires: Editions des  
Lettres Françaises, 1942. ONE OF TEN COPIES printed on Whatman paper  
and numbered in roman numerals — this being no. VI — of a total  
edition of 310 (the others being 100 copies on Type Hollande and 200  
on papier Pierre). Large folio (35 x 26 cm; 13 7/8 x 10 1/4 in) in  
stiff covers with printed self-wraps, original glassine dustjacket.
Dedicated to Archibald MacLeish and written while the author was in  
exile from Nazi-occupied France, the Vichy government having revoked  
his citizenship and dismissed him from the Légion d'Honneur in 1940.  
Saint-John Perse (a pseudonym for Alexis Leger) was a career diplomat  
as well as a poet, and a friend of most of the leading French cultural  
figures of his time, including Paul Valéry, Paul Claudel, Odilon  
Redon, and André Gide. He would go on to win the Nobel Prize for  
Literature in 1960.