Author: GIDE, ANDRE
Title: La Tentative Amoureuse ou le Traite du vain desir
Description: Paris, Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1921. 24 cm, Different. Color Illustrations. Conditie: Very good, Beautiful turquoise three quarter (on spine and corners) moroccan binding with marbled boards. Binding with gilt lines at the edges of the leather. Five raised bands on spine and letters gilt on spine. Binding with some discolouration, mainly to the spine. Top of pages gilt. Marbled end papers. Original front and back cover bound in as well. With illustrations after watercolours by Marie Laurencin, engraved in wood by Jules Germain and I. Petitrabat. Frontispiece and three other plates in colour, as well as smaller illustraties in monochrome and colour in the text. Printed in a limited edition of 412 numbered copies, this being number 329 of 400 printed on Lafuma-Navarre. Contents with a little foxing but still a good or better copy . More photo's available upon request.

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