Feuilles Libres, Signed (2 results)

Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon. 1ère édition. 22,5 x 18,7 cm, broché, couverture imprimée, hors-texte de Paul Klee contrecollé sur feuillet volant, 207 pp., 5 ff. sur papier couché illustrés en noir, 4 ff. n. ch. (catalogue d'éditeur imprimé sur papier bleu). Edition originale. Un des 10 ex. sur papier Japon (après 2 vieux Japon impérial), celui-ci non justifié et sans le fragment manuscrit mais imprimé spécialement pour Paul Chadourne. Envoi autographe signé de Léon-Paul Fargue : "A Paul Chadourne / son ami / Léon-Paul Fargue". Complet du hors texte de Paul Klee sur feuille volante.` Très bon état (non coupé). Belle revue contenant des lettres inédites de Jarry, Schwob, Apollinaire, Rivière, Proust Rilke, des textes de Valery, Ponge, Tzara, Colette, Crevel, Joyce et des illustrations de Daragnès, Picasso, Chirico, Michaux, etc. Signé par l'auteur. Livre d'occasion.

The composer writes in French to the editorial secretary of the avant-garde literary periodical Les Feuilles libres. He asks for feedback on an enclosed "chronicle", no longer present, and enquires when "our dear Director" - Marcel Raval, the editor-in-chief of the journal - is scheduled to return. This letter is apparently unpublished. Les Feuilles libres was published between 1918 and 1928. It was significant to the 1920s avant-garde movement in Paris, contributors including Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau. Satie's contributions appeared between 1922 and 1924. The work he refers to in the letter is likely "The Expired", which appeared in the "Musical Chronicle" section of the accompanying March/April 1923 issue of the journal. Satie was a closer correspondent of Raval (1900-1956). In another letter, dated 21 October 1924, he addresses him as "Mon cher Directeur & Ami", refers to "how kind you have always been to me", and describes Les Feuilles libres as "delightful" (Volta, pp. 196-7). He ends the present letter with a wish "that he come back quickly!" The letter is signed with Satie's distinctive monogram. "His signature was often replaced by a kind of logo: his initials harmoniously intertwined in the manner of the seals employed by the fin-de-siècle painters influenced by Japanese art" (Volta, p. 12). Ornella Volta, Satie Seen Through His Letters, 1989. Bifolium (leaf size: 182 x 137 mm) of plain paper. Handwritten in black ink across one side, totalling ten lines of text. Together with a typed English translation on yellow paper, with the comment below "The reference to 'our dear Director' is Marcel Raval", annotated top left in pen identifying Satie as the writer. Creased along folds, else fine.