Henry de Montherlant - Le Solstice de Juin [1/28 sur Arches — envoi autographe signé + LAS] - 1941

Henry de Montherlant — Le Solstice de Juin — Copy on Arches vellum + Signed autograph inscription + Signed handwritten card

Bernard Grasset Editions — Special edition — 1941




Remarkable elements

Luxury paper copy (Arches vellum) — limited numbered edition
Magnificent signed autograph on the frontispiece.
Signed, handwritten autographed card, dated, addressed, rich in content
Uncut, untrimmed copy, of an admirable bibliophilic freshness.
Very good state of preservation



Book Description

The June Solstice

Author: Henry de Montherlant

Publisher: Bernard Grasset, Paris

Year: 1941

Format: In-8 (19 x 13.5 cm)

Pages: 322 pages

Paper: Copy on Arches vellum, limited to only 28 copies (1 to 20 and I to VIII) — highly sought after. Second paper after 19 copies on Imperial Japan but before 50 copies on vellum and 446 copies on Alfa.

Uncut copy, showing a reading never begun.

Arches paper with visible watermark, noble grain, flexible, perfectly preserved.
Uncut edges, unopened notebooks: a pristine, untouched copy. Impeccable covers, very fresh interior, without foxing or stains.






Signed autograph sent by Montherlant.

On the half-title page:

To Mr. and Mrs. André Galy,
This book discussed and that I would still sign today.
the tribute of
Montherlant
October 31st, 50



Vivid blue ink, large, bold, passionate signature, typifying Montherlant's style.
Sending to Mr. and Mrs. Lucien Galy, whom we cannot trace.


The essays collected in L'Équinoxe all relate, directly or indirectly, to the events of 1938 and the French climate of that year and the preceding years. Montherlant virulently criticizes the spirit of 'Munich'.
The Solstice is the counterpart to the Equinox. Written the day after the defeat, the book exalts the 'human tone,' courage, common sense, quality, and well-done work, while also expressing the author's concern about the future of human quality among the average French person.
We know how much the Solstice has sparked misunderstandings and passionate reactions. Hence this handwritten note referring to the book as 'discussed' and 'that I will still sign today'.

Joint

Signed autograph card — Pre-stamped postcard under the Vichy regime

Support: an old printed postcard with handwritten content on the back entirely by Montherlant.
Format: approximately 15 x 10.5 cm – satin white paper.
Blue ink, about ten lines. Nice signature.
Handwritten by Montherlant 4-2-44
Shipped to:

M. Melchior Bonnet
57 Blatin Street
Le Petit Journal
Clermont-Ferrand
Well-readable postal stamps - 1.20 FR stamp depicting Marshal Pétain – dated February 3, 1944


Dear Sir
I am obliged to ask you whether you intend to pay for the article I corrected for you or not.


Very good condition, with no marks or particular issues except for a small tear at the top of the banknote without any missing parts.




Henry de Montherlant (1895-1972)

A prominent 20th-century writer, academic, moralist, playwright, heir to a stylish and provocative aristocratism.
Author of The Dead Queen, The Singles, The Bestiaries, The Summer Solstice, etc.
Handwritten correspondence circulates little: its letters are sought after by collectors.