La Porte étroite
Paris - Mercure de France - 1909
- Bookbinder : LORTIC
- Format : In-12.
- Number of volumes : 1 volume.
- Binding : Bound.
- Collation : 273 pp.
In a bordered case and black half-chagrin shirt with small overlaps (from another invoice). Full morocco binding in royal blue. Spine ribbed and richly decorated with gilt boxes. All edges gilt. Garnet moire lining and endpapers. Preserved blue cover. Binding signed LORTIC.
FIRST EDITION. ONE OF THE 300 NUMBERED COPIES ON ARCHES, ONLY LARGE PAPER, THIS ONE NOT JUSTIFIED.
André Gide took many years to write The Narrow Door, from 1891 to 17 October 1908. He entitled it first of all L'Essai de bien mourir, then La Mort de Mademoiselle Claire. This text was inspired by the solitary death of a friend of his mother's, Anna Shackleton, in 1884. It had first appeared as a pre-original in the first three issues of the Nouvelle Revue française of February 1, March 1 and April 1, 1909.
Very nice copy.
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