JOUVE, Pierre Jean (1887-1976). Processionnal de la Force Anglaise, Geneva, W. Egloff, 1944, 4to, wrappers. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 10 "HORS COMMERCE" COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed to Anthony Eden. RARE. With another related book. (2)

JOUVE, Pierre Jean (1887-1976).  Processionnal de la Force Anglaise. Geneva: "Sur les Presses d' Albert Kundig ... pour le Compte de W. Egloff" [from the colophon], 1944. 4to (228 x 170mm). Half title. Original wrappers lettered in red and blue. Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 10 COPIES "SUR VERGÉ DE RIVES HORS COMMERCE", PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "pour S. E. Monsieur Anthony Eden, qui [?]attacha si noblement l' Empire Britannique à la France. Pierre Jean Jouve. Décembre 1944." The author was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times and was one of the chief poets of the French resistance. The work has two printed epigraphs: the first a quote from General Alexander to Winston Churchill, made in May, 1943: "Sir, it is my duty to reveal to you that the campaign of Africa is over now"; the second, from Macbeth: "The night is long, that never finds the day." RARE. With Louis Aragon's Le Crève-Coeur. Préfaces d' André Labarthe et de Cyril Connolly ('Londres. Édition Horizon - La France Libre' [at The Curwen Press], 1942, 8vo, original wrappers, inscribed [not by the author], "A Mr Anthony Eden en souvenir d'une France en tourment, 19 Janvier, 1943, [indistinctly signed - see illustration]. (2)