Description
FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF THE 245 NUMBERED COPIES ON ALFA, only large paper (this one reserved for the Laurenchet Selection).
This novel in five parts, the first part was pre-published in La Nouvelle Revue française in November 1936, stages the character of Yves Le Pesnel; using a narration is very close to the one use for Gilles, Drieu inserts a coup de théâtre in the fourth part by unveiling the true narrator.
Copy dressed in a binding signed H. Duhayon.
Binding signed H. Duhayon. Red half-marocco and wooden paper with small corners, smooth spine, gilt title, wooden back cover, gilt head, preserved cover and spine. Some rubbing on the jaws.