@jextxadore Sadly, not smart enough to take the advice of his friends and get out of occupied France, so he died on the way to a concentration camp.
// @gtwilson
I’d like to have some of the early editions of Max Jacob, but as he wasn’t very well known, they were very small runs, and he tried to boost sales by getting his friend Picasso to add some illustrations, so they are way too expensive for me!
// @jextxadore @gtwilson
@gtwilson Some of your books sound wonderful! I have some old books, but nothing very rare or valuable. I started buying them when I was annoyed that a new book I bought fell apart as soon as I opened it, and I realised I could by an old copy, properly printed & bound, on nice paper, for not much more. Most of my old books are mid 20th century French or Swiss ones. Around the time of the war there was no decent paper in France, but some of the Swiss printers produced really nice books.
I’m afraid that piles of them live scattered around the living room and in the corner of the sofa where I sit, because I like to have plenty within easy reach.
// @jextxadore