LE NAVIRE D'ARGENT - Lot 306

LE NAVIRE D'ARGENT Monthly magazine of literature and general culture No. 1, June 1, 1925-No. 12, May 1, 1926. Paris, À La Maison des Amis des Livres, Director: Adrienne Monnier, Editorial secretary: Jean Prévost. Texts by Marcel Arland, Sylvia Beach, William Blake, Blaise Cendrars, Paul Claudel, E.E. Cummings, Joseph Delteil, John Donne, T.S. Eliot, Jean Giraudoux, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Franz Hellens, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Valery Larbaud, François Mauriac, Adrienne Monnier, Jean Prévost, Alfonso Reyes, Jacques Rivière, Jules Supervielle, Italo Svevo, William Carlos Williams, etc. Complete collection. 12 issues in 12 volumes, 2 in-8, bound (covers preserved) in slipcase. Handwritten notes by Vasseur (4 ff.). Attached: - 1 L.A.S. from Adrienne Monnier (June 2, 1926) to the Vicomtesse de Lacroix Laval, entirely dedicated to Le Navire d'argent; - Autographed or typed bills addressed to Édouard Dujardin from : Paul Vale'ry (1925), Valery Larbaud (November 23, 1931), Andre' Chamson (1930); - 1 handwritten note on Shakespeare and Company headed paper giving James Joyce's Paris address (January 1932); - 1 L.A.S. a` en-te^te de La Maison des livres annonc¸ant la sortie de l'ouvrage d'Adrienne Monnier : Les Gazettes d'Adrienne Monnier (décembre 1953) ; - 1 invitation card for the se'ance consacre'e a` James Joyce addressed to M. et Mme Édouard Dujardin (26 mars 1931) ; - Portraits of : Valery Larbaud, Saint-Exupe'ry, Paul Vale'ry, Andre' Gide, Paul Claudel, Franc¸ois Mauriac, Jules Romains, Henry de Montherlant, Joseph Kessel, Georges Duhamel.