JACOB (Max). Le Cornet à Dés. [Paris : the author, 1917]. - In-8, paperback. First edition at 540 copies, of this important poetic collection by Max Jacob, published at author's expense and not put on the market. It was only sold by subscription. The preface is a manifesto in which the cubist poet claims to have invented the modern prose poem. He pays tribute to his predecessors Aloysius Bertrand and Marcel Schwob ("En français dans le texte", BN, 1990, no. 348). One of the 486 copies of the current edition, enriched with this beautiful letter from the author in the form of a poem, addressed to Maurice Kaplan: "Don't think that my negligence // is the cause of this delay // But of your return the hope! My heart is more talkative for you // than my pen. // Max Jacob // to Maurice Kaplan". Cover soiled and torn on the edges, some missing on the back. tear without missing in the center of the last leaf.