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La seconde

1929140 x 210 mm

FIRST EDITION
ONE OF 200 EX. HC ON COLOURED SIMILI-JAPAN PAPER
Autograph letter to Max Dearly

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FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF 200 HC COPIES ON COLOURED SIMILI-JAPAN PAPER PRINTED SPECIALLY FOR THE AUTHOR
with a total print run of 4,340 copies.

AUTOGRAPH SIGNED LETTER:

"to Max Dearly
to his charming
woman,
with the friendship of
Colette "

Max Dearly (1874-1943), the pseudonym of vaudeville and revue actor Lucien Paul Marie-Joseph Rolland, starred alongside Pierre Brasseur, Blanchette Brunois and Mouloudji in the film adaptation of Claudine at school by Serge de Poligny in 1937.

Paris,Ferenczi,1929.In-8, Softcover140 x 210 mm,270 pp.

Flap cover faded, spine insolate. Crack of 2 cm at the lower spine. Wide margins.

Bio

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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