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FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF 70 NUMBERED COPIES ON VELLUM PUR FIL, only large paper.
This collection of nine short stories is Pierre Courtade's first work of fiction.  Elseneur, 1949 ; Jimmy1951, and The Black River, 1953.

"[...] slthough Courtade's work does not reach the acuity of Nizan or Roger Vailland, it is certainly on a higher level than that of Jean Tortel or Jean Laffitte, who, like him, featured in the catalogue of the Bibliothèque française in the 1950s. His mastery of the language of novels and the favourable reception given to some of his books provide convincing arguments for those who would like to reassess his literary reputation.." Paul Aron, To be or not to be a socialist realist: the example of Elsinore by Pierre Courtade, in Sociétés & Représentations 2003/1 (no. 15), pages 215 to 228.

A well-preserved copy in an astonishing period binding with reptilian skin.