Claude FARRÈRE (1876-1957). Autograph manuscript signed, Sans Patrie, ni Dieu, [February 1941]; 36pages in-4. Dedicated to "M.K.s.", this novella tells the story of a rootless man, Pierre Dominique Nihil, who discovers Zen through a Japanese friend and overcomes the defeat of 1940. The manuscript contains erasures, corrections and marginal additions. A typed copy with autograph corrections is dated "February 6, 41". Former collection of Colonel Daniel Sickles (XVI, 6776).