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Gabrielle-Sidonie

Colette


Julie de Carneilhan

1941

FIRST EDITION
ONE OF THE FIRST 20 EX. ON HOLLAND
Attractive contemporary art-deco binding

600 €

1 in stock

Literature Bindings of the period Copy on large paper Top draw only First Edition

Description

FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF THE FIRST 20 NUMBERED COPIES ON HOLLANDEfollowed by 100 copies on pur-fil.

Begun in January 1941 and completed five months later, Julie de Carneilhan was first published as a serial during the Occupation in Gringoire from 13 June to 22 August 1941. Colette talks about her writing work in her letters to Petites Fermières The book, which revives memories of her turbulent life with Henry de Jouvenel, is a "bloody, venomous, disgusting novel".

Attractive contemporary art-deco binding.

Paris,Fayard,1941.In-12, Bound,

Contemporary binding. Midnight blue half-maroquin, spine ribbed and decorated with a mosaic of red morocco and fillet, cover and spine preserved.

Bio

Colette,Gabrielle-Sidonie

Gabrielle-Sidonie Colette

Born on 28 January 1873 in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye (Yonne) - died on 3 August 1954 in Paris. Mime, actress and journalist, a French woman of letters known above all as a novelist, Colette was after Judith Gautier in 1910, the second woman elected member of the Goncourt academy in 1945, of which she became president between 1949 and 1954.

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