MARAN RENE [André Collot] - Lot 282

MARAN RENE [André Collot] Mbala l'éléphant Paris, 1943, Arc-en-Ciel, In-4 in sheets with dust jacket and slipcase, 21.5 x 27.5cm, 1 blank page, 144 pp, 1 page, 3 blank pages, frontispiece and 26 color compositions by André Collot and a frame. This illustrated edition, printed in an edition of 1,000 copies, is also the first edition of this bush novel. Carteret IV-263 "Edition cotée en grand papier". ARTISTIC EXAMPLE ENRICHED WITH A LONG AUTOGRAPHIC POEM BY RENE MARAN, winner of the 1921 Goncourt Prize for Batouala. Two-page poem entitled Salomé, dated June 12, 1945 and dedicated to Mme Dordet. Copy also ENRICHED WITH AN ORIGINAL GOUACHE BY ANDRE COLLOT (the elephant used for the cover illustration) and A SUPERB PASTELS AND INK DRAWING FRAMING THE JUSTIFICATION, signed by Collot.