Ensemble de trois volumes clandestins et publics des Éditions de Minuit (1943...
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This set of three slim octavo pamphlets captures the book’s wartime double life: two clandestine Éditions de Minuit publications issued under the Occupation, followed by a “first public edition” after Liberation. It comprises *Le Musée Grévin* (Aragon, under the pseudonym François La Colère; achevé d’imprimer 6 October 1943) and *Le Temps Mort* (Claude Aveline, under Minervois; achevé d’imprimer 1 June 1944), both printed “aux dépens de quelques lettrés patriotes” and regarded as the original clandestine editions. Completing the trio is *La Marque de l’homme* (Claude Morgan, under Mortagne), published in 1946 as the “première édition publique,” in a limited run of 2,000 numbered copies—this copy being No. 1, the first off the presses. Together, the volumes trace Minuit’s passage from perilous secrecy to postwar legitimacy, while retaining the urgency of the Resistance moment. Condition is notably fine: original wrappers preserved, two covers lightly sunned, interiors immaculate.
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Aragon, Louis
Aveline, Claude
Morgan, Claude
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Ensemble de trois volumes clandestins et publics des Éditions de Minuit (1943–1946)
1943 | Paris | Edition de Minuit
Three Minuit pamphlets charting the move from clandestinity to public memory—crowned by an exceptional 1946 No. 1 copy.
This set of three slim octavo pamphlets captures the book’s wartime double life: two clandestine Éditions de Minuit publications issued under the Occupation, followed by a “first public edition” after Liberation. It comprises *Le Musée Grévin* (Aragon, under the pseudonym François La Colère; achevé d’imprimer 6 October 1943) and *Le Temps Mort* (Claude Aveline, under Minervois; achevé d’imprimer 1 June 1944), both printed “aux dépens de quelques lettrés patriotes” and regarded as the original clandestine editions. Completing the trio is *La Marque de l’homme* (Claude Morgan, under Mortagne), published in 1946 as the “première édition publique,” in a limited run of 2,000 numbered copies—this copy being No. 1, the first off the presses. Together, the volumes trace Minuit’s passage from perilous secrecy to postwar legitimacy, while retaining the urgency of the Resistance moment. Condition is notably fine: original wrappers preserved, two covers lightly sunned, interiors immaculate.
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Set comprising: (1) Louis Aragon (pseud. François La Colère), *Le Musée Grévin*, achevé d’imprimer 6 Oct 1943, 28 pp. + 1 leaf; (2) Claude Aveline (pseud. Minervois), *Le Temps Mort*, achevé d’imprimer 1 Jun 1944, 74 pp. + 2 leaves; (3) Claude Morgan (pseud. Mortagne), *La Marque de l’homme*, 1946, 86 pp. + 1 leaf, limited to 2,000 numbered copies; this copy No. 1 (first off the press). Very good condition; original wrappers preserved; two covers slightly sunned; interiors immaculate.
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Aragon’s *Le Musée Grévin* is a landmark of clandestine poetry: a cutting denunciation in which the Occupation’s brutality is condensed into charged images and names. It is striking for one of the earliest literary evocations of Auschwitz, figured as a hellish place whose very name “hisses.” Aveline’s *Le Temps Mort* shifts register toward meditative tension—stasis, waiting, moral pressure—written under a pseudonym for restricted circulation. Morgan’s *La Marque de l’homme* (1946) moves into the public sphere, reflecting on what war and clandestinity inscribe in the human. Read together, the three volumes form a triptych: accusation, inner resistance, and postwar reckoning.
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