Samuel Silvestre de Sacy / Jean Bruller [Vercors] - Dix légendes en marge du livre - 1930

Rare edition printed in small numbers, remarkably illustrated by the resistance fighter Jean Bruller (known as Vercors), featuring a frontispiece and ten full-page color etchings. It also includes ten initials and ten tailpieces. Beautiful humorous compositions by Bruller, in the style of Gus Bofa.

The print run announces a total of 225 numbered copies (plus a few copies for collaborators and friends), here one of the 175 on Gaspard-Maillol paper by hand (No. 86).

In sheets, with printed and laminated cover, and a cardboard case.
Exemplar in very good condition. A few scattered foxing, quite rare. Spine slightly creased and case rubbed at the edges with brown stains.

Vercors - Jean Bruller (1902-1991) was originally named Jean Bruller. He was an engraver and draftsman, committed to denouncing the absurdity of the world, for example in Twenty-One Practical Recipes for Violent Death (1926) or in A Man Cut into Slices (1929). It was only through the war and the Resistance, in which he fully engaged, that Vercors, his war name, took precedence over Jean Bruller, and that the writer triumphed over the artist. At the same time, the pessimist found a reason to hope in the very fight he was waging against the forces of despair.

Jean Bruller [Vercors]; Samuel Silvestre de Sacy
Ten captions in the margins of the book
Paris, at the Crezevault brothers' place, 1930
in-4 (27 x 20 cm); 120 pages. 2 folios.

Magnificent etchings by Jean Bruller Vercors 1/225 no. 1930 Humor Caricature