Books and Manuscripts

[Ernst, Max] Caillois, Roger
Obliques
Montpellier: Editions Fata Morgana, (1967). First and limited deluxe edition, one of only 18 copies on Verge d'Auvergne, reserved for the author and publisher (this copy reserved for Alain Clément, and stamped on colophon "Exemplaire de Alain Clément"), signed by Caillois (from a total edition of 629 copies). 8vo. 68, (8) pp. Illustrated with an etched frontispiece by Max Ernst, signed and numbered by him at bottom ("H.C. 2/18"). Original stiff wrappers, printed in black and in blue; gatherings loose as issued; in blue cloth chemise.

Alain Clément was a French publisher who collaborated with Caillois, and others, on the philosophical review Espace.

Roger Caillois was a writer and sociologist born in Rheims in 1913. He studied at the Lycee Louis le Grand, the Ecole Normale Superieure, and the Ecole Pratique de Hautes Etudes, and taught at Lycee de Beauvais. In 1938 he founded, with Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, and Michel Leiris, the College de sociologie, and during the 1930s contributed to Bataille's literary and philosophical journal Acephale. Following World War II he worked for UNESCO, and in 1952 he founded the interdisciplinary journal Diogenes. He also edited La Croix du Sud, a collection of French translations of contemporary Latin American authors, and published works on ludology. He was elected to the Academie Francaise in 1971, and died in 1978.

A fine and unique copy.

Provenance
Collection of Tonian Genstein Volk, Pennsylvania