Le Nouveau Crève-cœur
€3,600.00
First edition of Aragon’s postwar poetry volume, issued by NRF in 1948: a compact book that bridges wartime verse and the literature of rebuilding. Aragon fuses political awakening with intimate lyricism, letting history’s shock reverberate through refined forms. This copy is among the coveted head copies on Hollande vellum, with full margins and in original condition. The small print run of 1,109 underscores its scarcity. Further, it is one of four hors commerce copies, lettered “C,” kept outside the regular trade. True to NRF tradition, the typography is restrained and elegant, foregrounding the text. For collectors of French poetry, it is a hinge work in Aragon’s oeuvre and in postwar literary culture.
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Aragon, Louis
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Le Nouveau Crève-cœur
1948 | Paris | Gallimard (NRF)
The volume closes one chapter and opens another: a rare case where editorial restraint meets poetic urgency.
First edition of Aragon’s postwar poetry volume, issued by NRF in 1948: a compact book that bridges wartime verse and the literature of rebuilding. Aragon fuses political awakening with intimate lyricism, letting history’s shock reverberate through refined forms. This copy is among the coveted head copies on Hollande vellum, with full margins and in original condition. The small print run of 1,109 underscores its scarcity. Further, it is one of four hors commerce copies, lettered “C,” kept outside the regular trade. True to NRF tradition, the typography is restrained and elegant, foregrounding the text. For collectors of French poetry, it is a hinge work in Aragon’s oeuvre and in postwar literary culture.
€3,600
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In-12 (Duodecimo) approx. 17 × 22 cm
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Head copy on Hollande vellum; hors commerce, lettered “C”.
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14
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