ALBERT-BIROT (Pierre). La Lune ou le livre des poèmes. Paris - Lot 167

ALBERT-BIROT (Pierre). La Lune ou le livre des poèmes. Paris, J. Budry & Cie, 1924. Small in-4, 229 p., [3] f., recent full black chagrin binding, smooth spine, gilt author and title, gilt head, untrimmed, covers and spine preserved (very rare sporadic foxing, small tear without missing margin p.169). First edition of this collection of poems with an admirable typographical composition, somewhere between calligrams and lettering. Limited edition of 326 copies: one of the 26 head copies on Chine (no. 5), the only ones reprinted in "in-quarto Florette" format. Autograph signed letter from the author to Robert Altmann (1915-2017), avant-garde publisher who founded the Brunidor publishing house in New York in 1947, and art collector; he was the first to champion Lettrism and published Isidore Isou's first lithograph.