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FIRST EDITION of this rare novel by Nantes writer Cyprien Halgan. 
ONE OF 10 COPIES ON LAFUMA LAID PAPERThis is the only paperback edition.

"The pure and proud bird, whose silvery feather is like a smile of clarity in ... This barely symbolic seagull is a sailor in the fleet, a Breton from the island of Houat, who, on returning from the war, wants to see horizons other than those of his rocks and his humble life, and gives in to the lure of the big profits of an easy existence in the factories of the cities. A Breton throws himself wholeheartedly into everything he does. Pierre le Coz, in his headlong rush, cast adrift all that he loved. [...]" (La Nouvelle revue, Volume 68, 1923).