Le Petit Pierre
Paris, Calmann-Lévy, (November) 1918.
1 vol. (120 x 190 mm) of 338 p. and 1 f. Half orange morocco with corners, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt title, date gilt at foot, top edge gilt, original wrappers and spine preserved (binding signed by Devauchelle).
First edition.
One of the first 100 copies on Japanese paper (no. 18).
Accompanied by: revised and corrected edition by the author, Calmann-Lévy, 1928.
One of the first 100 copies on Japanese paper (no. 18).
Accompanied by: revised and corrected edition by the author, Calmann-Lévy, 1928.
Anatole France was already seventy-four when he offered, in Le Petit Pierre (1918), a precise and confiding account of matters he had previously touched upon in Le Livre de mon ami (1885) and Pierre Nozière (1899). Unlike the two earlier books, Le Petit Pierre is far richer in the details it reveals about the author’s character. “France tells us here that his mind was shaped by that of his father, a traditionalist, spiritualist and even Christian, but ‘like a cup molded on a lover’s breast’! That is to say, he reproduced in hollow the softest curves of it — a strangely poetic way of saying that in all things he took the opposite view of the opinions […] of his tutor.”
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