SAINT-JOHN PERSE. Rains. Buenos Aires: French Letters, 1944. - In-4, 301 x 230: (14 ff. first blank), printed cover. Paperback, filled cover. First edition of this collection of poems dedicated to Katherine and Francis Biddle. One of 300 copies on Hollande type paper. EXAMPLE OF THE FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHER GISÈLE FREUND (1908-2000), enriched with this autograph on the first blank page : For Gisèle Freund, // who loved like me the // Tierra del Fuego and the surroundings // of Cape Horn // St John PerseSt John Perse was one of the many writers who were photographed by Gisèle Freund . This copy is enriched with a black and white photograph, 235 x 149 mm, taken around 1966 and in a later print. It bears the handwritten mention in ink on the back: " Mention obligatoire : Photo Gisèle FREUND ". Copy very well preserved. Folds in the upper right corner of the photograph. Provenance : Gisèle Freund, with a letter from the author. - Ex-libris M.D.