L’Armée dans la ville
Paris, Mercure de France, (May 30) 1911.
1 vol. (130 x 200 mm) of 217 p., [1] and 1 f. Bradel-style binding with false raised bands, title and date handwritten on spine, top edge gilt, original wrappers preserved (contemporary binding).
First edition of Jules Romains's first published play.
One of 10 copies on Hollande paper (unannounced), the only paper.
Dedication copy to “Georges Duhamel, Jules Romains.”
One of 10 copies on Hollande paper (unannounced), the only paper.
Dedication copy to “Georges Duhamel, Jules Romains.”
Three years after La Vie unanime, Jules Romains reserved one of the ten deluxe copies for Georges Duhamel, to whom the play is dedicated. Both books were later bound identically, at the time, probably for Duhamel himself, whose library was dispersed in the 1960s.
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