GIDE, André.

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GIDE, André.
The Notebooks of André Walter. Posthumous work. Paris, Perrin et Cie, 1891. In-12 [174 x 102] of 278 pp. Bradel style boards, untrimmed (period binding). Rare set of proofs of the true first edition. These are the second proofs of the text bearing the stamp of the printing house Delis frères on the false title, dated November 29, 1890; they offer an intermediate state of the text. Copy of the wife of the publisher Karl Boès, enriched with a beautiful autograph sending signed on the first guard: I have great pleasure in knowing // these relics in the hands // of Mrs. Karl Boès // to whom I present my // very attentive tributes // in memory of a beautiful past // to which my heart remains faithful // André Gide // November 1937 Karl Boès founded Le Courrier libre, a literary journal, before taking over La Plume, which he directed until 1905. First leaf torn and missing, repaired with sticky paper which has since browned. Some foxing.
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