loups limited edition commerce copies de mazeline guy (1 résultats)

Hardback. Etat : Very Good. 1st edn. Half dark green morocco, marbled paper to boards. Raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. 4to (18 x 21.5cm). Rubbing to boards and board edges. Small closed tear (1.5cm) to paper to rear board, which is partially detached near spine. Cracking to front outer hinge, which is slightly tender but holding. Marbled endpapers, front endpaper only just starting at gutter. Armorial bookplate of J.C.F. Jacobi to inside front board. Title page printed in red & black. Limited edition: one of 9 hors commerce copies of the fine quarto format of the first edition, printed on watermarked laid paper. The first edition consisted of 209 copies, of which 109 were in the quarto 'tellière' format on Lafuma-Navarre paper with the 'LBN Voiron' Nouvelle Revue Française watermark. Of these 109 copies, 9 were hors commerce, marked A to I. This volume is one of these copies, marked 'I'. Mazelin's most famous novel, this won the Prix Goncourt in 1932 (acknowledged by 'Goncourt 1932' in gilt to spine). Fine limited hors commerce edition, slightly let down by condition of binding. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders with tracking, overseas tracking available on request. Size: 622pp. Text block sound & unmarked.