FIRST EDITION, 412/500 COPIES, woodcut design to title-page printed in grey and black, the French poems preceding their English translation at rear, pp. [68], 8vo, original card wrappers, the thin surface paper worn in places to front, this affecting only one letter (restored in manuscript), projecting fore-edge of front cover a little nicked, very good. Inscribed by the author beneath the limitation statement: 'to Mme du Puygardeau, avec mes hommages affectueux, Raymond Duncan'. The author, the brother of dancer Isadora Duncan, harnessed various performing and other artistic activities in the service of his philosophy for human advancement - based on Ancient Greek models. He established his Akademia Raymond Duncan in Paris in 1911 and soon start publishing under its imprint, printing predominantly his own work and in a typeface of his design. His poetry here offers, his Foreword declares, 'a cipher to faint indications of untrodden roads and a suggestion of how to walk them'. Seller Inventory # 69846

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Title: Je chante et je dis / My Verb Clamorous. ...

Publisher: �ditions Raymond Duncan n.d. circa s?

Publication Date: 1940

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