Souvenirs de la cour d’assises
Paris, Éditions de la NRF, (January 6) 1914.
1 vol. (165 x 210 mm) of 122 p., 1 and [1] f. Half ebony morocco with corners, spine with raised bands, gilt title, date gilt at foot, top edge gilt, original wrappers and spine preserved (binding signed by Devauchelle).
First edition.
One of 70 copies on vergé d'Arches paper (no. 9).
One of 70 copies on vergé d'Arches paper (no. 9).
This collection of journalistic notes, compiled in 1912, records the observations of André Gide as a juror at the assize court, appalled by the summary and arbitrary manner in which the bourgeoisie judged uneducated, alcoholic wretches who had become murderers or incestuous rapists, in what Lucien Maury described as “a passionate observation and a distressing lucidity regarding the sense of suffering, this view, so exact and so frightening, of the infirmity of our judgments in general and of those of Justice in particular” (La Revue bleue, 1914).
From the library of Raymond Gallimard (bookplate).
Spine very slightly faded.
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