Inscribed to Alexeieff
Publication: H. Meslin, Paris, .
£392
Avec envoi de l’auteur à Alexandre Alexeieff, qui avait dessiné la couverture. Exemplaire de tête, fort désirable, de l’édition originale de roman semi-autobiographique.
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Fine example of this first edition’s tirage de tête, warmly inscribed by the author to Alexeieff, the famous Russian émigré artist who designed the cover of the edition: “To Alexeieff, with all my regrets to see him so often absent from the Devil’s Manor / Thankfulness and sympathy / Jean Genbach / Paris 5 june 1927”.
This is copy num. 57 from 70 of the tirage de tête.
A defrocked Jesuit seminarian who described himself as a “possédé démoniaque conscient” (“consciously demonically possessed”), Jean Genbach (pseudonym of Ernest de Gengenbach, 1903–1979) was a French writer and poet associated with the Surrealist circle of Robert Desnos and André Breton. Semi-autobiographical and delirious, Satan in Paris tells the story of the erotic and mystical transgressions of a young man from a deeply religious background.
Item number
3190
Octavo. Complete.
Binding
Original colour printed publisher’s wrappers, with a illustration after Alexeieff.
Condition
A bit rubbed or soiled, mostly fresh internally except a couple of stains.
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