Author: Gide, André [1869-1951]
Title: L’école des femmes [bound together with: "Robert. Supplement a L’école des femmes"]
Description: Paris, Gallimard, Éd. de la NRF, (1929-30). First edition, 1/4-cloth. 26x11cm, 171 + 89 pp, Top edge gilt. Several sentences on copyright page have been neatly & lightly pencil underlined.. Minor rubbing. Slight spine slope. Bookplate. VG. ¶ This is a contemporary binder's quarter-cloth volume containing two numbered first editions by André Gide, each with original front & rear cover wrappers bound-in: 1) "L’école des femmes" [1929] Copy nr. 477 of of 1235 copies on vélin pur fil, incl. 1200 for Amis de l’édition original, and 35 h.c. [there were also 547 copies on hollande in blue wrappers, numb.H.I-H. DXLVII, incl. 47 h.c.; 119 reimposed in 4^(0) on vergé Lafuma- Navarre, numb. I-CV for Bibliophiles de la NRF, and A-N h.c.; and the ordinary edition]; 2) "Robert: Supplement à L’école des femmes" [1930] Copy nr. H.C. XXX of 47 Hors Commerce numérotés de H. DI a H. DXLVII [In addition there were 1035 copies on vélin pur fil, incl. 1000 for Amis de l’édition originale, and 35 h.c.; there were also 547 copies on hollande in blue wrappers, numb. H. I-H. DXLVII, incl. 47 h.c.; 4000 on alfa; and 123 reimposed in 4^(0) on vergé Lafuma-Navarre, incl. I-CIX for Bibliophiles de la NRF, and A-N h.c.] .

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