Description
KESSEL (Joseph).
Des Hommes.
Paris: Gallimard, [1972]. — In-8, 205 x 140: (1 blank folio), 319 pp., (3 blank leaves at the end), printed cover. Paperback, covered binding.
First edition of this commemorative volume, introduced by the author at the beginning of the book as follows: ‘By bringing together today these prefaces, notes and portraits that have marked so many years, I simply wanted to say thank you to men whose works or lives have made my own life more beautiful and helped me to live it better.’
The book is divided into five sections: Writers (Cocteau, Romain Gary, André Malraux, Raymond Radiguet, Mondor, Steinbeck…) – Painters (Iacovleff, Kisling, Raymond Moretti). - Singers, Russia (Volodia, Vaia, Novski). - Men of Action (René Jacquemaire, Henry de Montfreid, Rémy, Jacques Zimmermann, Mermoz, Saint-Exupéry…) – Israel (Herbert Agar, Rubi…).
Joseph Kessel discusses Africa in the chapter devoted to Henri de Montfreid. In it, he recounts the adventurer’s life, notably his immersion amongst the indigenous peoples of the Ethiopian highlands (Abyssinia).
One of 60 copies printed on Lafuma-Navarre pure-fibre vellum (no. 43), the second paper used after 30 copies printed on Van Gelder white Dutch vellum.
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About the sale
Claude Mozis Library – Black Africa and the African diaspora
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10/21/2026 at 2:00 PM
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