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FIRST EDITION of Julien Green's first novel. 
ONE OF 50 NUMBERED COPIES ON PUR FIL LAFUMA PAPERAfter 15 copies on Japon impérial and 25 copies on Hollande, followed by 550 copies on esparto.

Inscribed and signed by the author to Lucien Dumas :

"to Mr Lucien Dumas
this first novel which already
ends very badly!
Yours sincerely
Julien Green

The first of three masterpieces forming a trilogy with  Adrienne Mesurat (1927) and Leviathan (1929), Mont-Cinère was received favourably by the critics and, in 1928, was published in an edition illustrated by Alexeieff and expanded by several chapters.