HERMANT Abel

Life in Paris. 14 complete manuscripts of articles signed Abel Hermant, and a fifteenth signed with his pseudonym Lancelot. In order : Coryza (9p), Pat Bouille nouveau jeu (10p), Médisance (10p), Les imagiers fous (9p), Les cadeaux importuns (9p), Convalescence (9p), Le collectionneur (9p), Le nouvel an comique (9p), Compliments (9p), Les montes de bêtise (9p), Les deux cortèges (9p), Un mot qui tombe, un mot qui vient (10p), Français moyens (9p), Discours à Madame de la sablière (9p), Défense de la langue française, le raisonnement et la raison (7p, Lancelot). Set of 136 pages in-8 presented in a half red morocco banded slipcase, spine with 5 ribs uniformly unstained. Attached an autograph letter signed at the head of the French Academy dated June 18, 1943. Hermant responds to the reproach that he is associated with others on a protest of intellectuals against the bombing of French cities and countryside by the Anglo-American aviation, 2p in-8.