La Peau de bison. La Vallée sans hommes
One of 50 deluxe copies reserved for the author (copy II for the 2 volumes, after the copy reserved for Frison-Roche).
Signed presentation inscriptions: “À Monsieur Armand Flammarion, en toute sympathie, ce 17.7.71.”; “À Monsieur Armand Flammarion, en témoignage de sincère et reconnaissante sympathie, ce 18 juin 1973.”
A two-volume novel forming a diptych, these adventure narratives unfold in the vast, wild North of the United States, from the Rockies to the banks of the Klondike, a Canadian river in the western Yukon Territory, crossing the upper Nahanni Valley. Polar night lasts six months, alternating with a day of equal length; temperatures can drop below -50 degrees, and no man lives there, leaving the land to bears and wolves. Through it runs a river of sinister reputation, the Nahanni, with its vertiginous falls — the “Virginia Falls” — and furious rapids. During the gold rush, at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, prospectors ventured there, and it is said that none ever returned. It is in these grandiose solitudes that Max, the hero of La Peau de bison, decides to settle after the death of his Native American wife, Rosa.
A perfect set, of excellent provenance from the publisher of the text, Armand Flammarion.