GENET (Jean). Pompes funèbres. Bikini: Aux dépens de quelques amateurs [Paris: Gallimard], 1947. - In-8, 250 x 164: 310 pp, (5 ff. last 3 blank), printed cover. Black half-chagrin with corners, smooth spine, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (G. Gauché). L'Enfer de la bibliothèque, BnF, 2007, no. 238: notice by Marie-Françoise Quignard. - Dutel, III, 2237. - Pia, n° 1163. First edition, printed in an edition of 495 copies, dedicated to Jean Decarnin, a young Communist resistance fighter who died on the barricades during the liberation of Paris. The novel was to be published by Marc Barbezat, director of the magazine l'Arbalète. "Unable to pay the sum of five hundred thousand francs requested by Genet, he had to abandon the project. Genet then turned to Gaston Gallimard, who agreed to publish Pompes funèbres, although he was reluctant to do so under his own name, preferring to use a fictitious address" (Marie-Françoise Quignard). One of 450 numbered copies on vellum pur fil de Lana (no. 25). A fine copy in a perfect binding by Georges Gauché.