Description

FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF THE VERY FEW COPIES OF GOOD SHEETS distributed to the press before the release of the original edition.

AUTOGRAPH SIGNED MAILING:

"to Mr Marius Bourquinet
with kind regards
Alphonse de Chateaubriant

Complete copy of the rare glossary "technical Brière terms that have no equivalent in the language of countries where peat is not harvested"On an advertising leaflet from the Grasset bookshop promoting Monsieur de Lourdines.
These copies were accompanied by two illustrated sample covers, one for the current print run and the other for the put-through.  The cover (unclipped) of a copy of the SP is added.

La Brière was awarded the Grand Prix du roman by the Académie française in 1923. It was a publishing success between the wars, selling 600,000 copies.