[Signé - Truffé] - Tristan Derème / Hermine David - Le Zodiaque ou Les Étoiles sur Paris - 1927

DERÈME (Tristan)

The Zodiac or The Stars over Paris.

Paris, at Émile-Paul frères, 1927.

1 volume in-4 (28.5 x 20 cm), paperback with folded cover, box, not trimmed on the large edge, [2]-viii-137-[4] pages (complete). Very good condition.

Copper engravings by Hermine David.

Print run of 225 copies, this one of the 200 on Arches (H-C).

Work stuffed with documents:
- Photo from the era extracted from Maurice Ronan’s photographic report.
- Autograph letter signed by Derème to Johannin Ardouin (head of office and administrator at the Ministry of the Interior, active notably between 1904 and 1914).
- 2 Invitations to Johannin Ardouin.
- Menus with signatures of Paul Fort, Paul Valéry, Tristan Derème, etc., and an autograph inscription from Derème to Johannin Ardouin.
- press articles from the era.

Le Dîner du Zodiaque (1927): This is a banquet organized in Paris on the initiative of the poetic revue La Muse Française, under the honorary presidency of Paul Valéry. This dinner celebrated the poet Tristan Derème on the occasion of the publication of his successful poetry collection Le Zodiaque ou les Étoiles sur Paris. The greatest names in literature and criticism of the time participated (among them Paul Fort, Francis Carco, and Paul Souday).

Beau and rare copy.