Léon BLOY. Méditations d'un solitaire en 1916 (Paris, Mercure de France, 1917); in-12, untrimmed paperback, full margins, green half-chagrin folder, slipcase. First edition, one of 45 copies on Arches laid paper (not numbered). Handsome autograph letter to René Martineau: "To my excellent friend René Martineau, the first, after my wife, to have guessed & helped me. "He who loves greatness & who loves the abandoned, when he passes by the abandoned, will recognize greatness, if greatness is there", said Hello. Léon Bloy, Pentecôte, 1917.