GIDE, André.

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GIDE, André.
L'Immoraliste. Paris, Société du Mercure de France, 1902. In-12 [166 x 107] of 257 pp, (1) f. : half dark blue morocco with corners, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, slipcase (slightly later binding). First edition. It was printed at 300 copies on Arches laid paper. "Gide's previous success, Les Nourritures terrestres, had more influence on the youth, but it is vague and syrupy. Here the destructive tendencies implicit in the pagan obsession with the body, the latent homosexuality that the desert brings out, are foreshadowing aspects of his own life, so profoundly altered by his encounter with Wilde and Douglas" (Connolly, One Hundred Key Books of Modern Literature, #13). A choice copy, finely bound and perfectly preserved.
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