UN HOMME CHEZ LES MICROBES: SCHERZO, together with the FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of PORGY, both serialized in LA REVUE UNIVERSELLE 1928. [Complete year consisting of 24 semimonthly issues of the Journal.]

Paris: Revue universelle, January 1 - December 15, 1928., January 1 - December 15, 1928.. Very good. - Octavo, 10 inches high by 6-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, 24 issues bound in printed gray wrappers titled in black on the front covers and the spines. The edges of the covers are slightly creased with minor chipping to the head & tail of a few of the spines. A couple of the issues have a tiny tear to the bottom edge of their covers and there is a small stain to front cover of one issue. The run consists of Volume XXXII, Nos 19-24, January 1 - March 15, 1928; Volume XXXIII, Nos 1-6, April 1 - June 15, 1928; Volume XXXIV, Nos 7-12, July 1 - September 15 1928; Volume XXXV, Nos 13-18, October 1 - December 15, 1928. Each volume has 768 consecutively numbered pages. All but 2 of the issues have several pages of ads printed on orange stock bound in at the front of each issue. There are minor creases and chips to the overlapping edges of the deckle-edged pages. A very attractive run of this periodical.

Maurice Renard: UN HOMME CHEZ LES MICROBES: SCHERZO. First edition as first published in serial form from April 1 through May 15, 1928 in "la Revue universelle". This fantastic science fiction novel concerns the theme of the shrinking man. Maurice Renard (1875-1939) has been until recently little known outside the French speaking world. This probably was the result of a lack of translations available to English speakers. The work at hand is an early scientific novel on the theme of miniaturization.

Also in this run of the journal is the first publication of the French translation of PORGY by DuBose Hayward. The translation is the work of Denyse Clairouin (1900-1945), a translator and a French Resistance fighter. She was arrested in 1943 and deported to Ravensbruck and later to Mauthausen where she died in March 1945. Porgy is serialized from August 1 - September 15, 1928.

In addition to these two important works the journals at hand contain: Two articles by Knud Rasmussen ("Chez les Esquimaux" and "Chez les Esquimaux: sorcellerie et superstions"); letters of Marcel Proust to Paul Brach; "La Sauvagine" by Joseph d'Arbaud; "La Vie et les amours d'Edgar A. Poe", in 2 parts, by Emile Lauvriere, and "Un document sur le Bolchevisme" by Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin.