Je sors du bagne
Paris, Éditions L'Élan, coll. « Témoignages contemporains », (September) 1948.
1 vol. (140 x 185 mm) of 304 p. Half red morocco with bands, gilt fillets on covers, smooth spine decorated, gilt title, date gilt at foot, top edge gilt, original wrappers and spine preserved, matching edged slipcase (binding signed Semet et Plumelle).
First edition.
One of 10 hors commerce copies, this one extra-illustrated with several documents relating to the author's arrest and to that of Henri Béraud at the Liberation, as well as an original pencil portrait; the whole has been bound with the work.
Kept loose: the typescript of the publisher's insert (1 leaf); the “Billet de sortie” from the Saint-Martin-de-Ré penitentiary center (1 leaf); a typed note taken from La Guerre et la Paix (1 leaf).
One of 10 hors commerce copies, this one extra-illustrated with several documents relating to the author's arrest and to that of Henri Béraud at the Liberation, as well as an original pencil portrait; the whole has been bound with the work.
Kept loose: the typescript of the publisher's insert (1 leaf); the “Billet de sortie” from the Saint-Martin-de-Ré penitentiary center (1 leaf); a typed note taken from La Guerre et la Paix (1 leaf).
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