GENET (Jean). Miracle de la Rose. sl, L'Arbalète, 1946. Fo - Lot 135

GENET (Jean). Miracle de la Rose. sl, L'Arbalète, 1946. Fort in-4 in publisher's boards, author's name on spine. First edition limited to 475 copies (n°350). Slight foxing at beginning and end. Very slight soiling to boards. Written in Fresnes prison, Miracle de la rose is, along with Notre-Dame des Fleurs, one of two novels that Jean Genet wrote during periods of incarceration. In it, he alternates between memories of the Mettray penal colony, where he was imprisoned at the age of sixteen, and memories of prison at the Maison Centrale de Fontevrault, a prison that the real Genet never visited; the writer was at the Fresnes penitentiary when the book was written. He recalls his years of confinement, "in the most beautiful place in the most beautiful Touraine". Also by the same author: - Querelle de Brest. sl [Paris], sn [Morihien], 1947. In-4 paperback, printed cover. First trade edition, one of 1850 numbered copies, the only edition (n°135). Cover stitched. - Poèmes. sl, L'Arbalète, 1948. In-4 cover illustrated with photographic portraits of the author by Dushan Stanimirovich, filled, under rodhoïd bearing the title in black letters. First edition printed in an edition of 1000 copies on pur fil Lana (n°141). Small brown spots at beginning and end. Expert : Madame Elvire POULAIN-MARQUIS