VALERY, PAUL. CHARMES OU POEMES. 4to, full green morocco, gilt-ruled, original printed wrappers bound in; watered silk doublure and

free endpapers; edges gilt. Paris: Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1922 FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 325 NUMBERED COPIES ON VELIN PUR FIL LAFUMA-NAVARRE. "This collection contains his greatest poem "Le Cimetiere Marin"... whose conclusion, "Il faut tenter de vivre", provides the answer to the Prufrock-Waste Land death wish." --Connolly, The Modern Movement 31(b).