Max JACOB. Autograph poem signed "M.J.", Phèdre IV, [1936]; 1page in-4 (paper slightly creased). Working manuscript, with erasures and corrections, of this poem, published in 1936 in the Revue de Paris (September-October 1936), and collected in L'Homme de cristal (1967, p.17). It has 22 lines, one of which is crossed out. "They fall the red petals of youth the rejected veil of passion falls. [...] Yes! I suffer in my sleep because I transfigure myself in a new love that at dawn I inaugurate."