La Tentative Amoureuse ou le Traite du vain desir by Andre Gide
Paris: Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1921. First edition. Original Wraps. Approximately 40 pages. 24 x 20 cm. Limited edition, copy 287 of 400 on papier Lafuma-Navarre. Four full-page colored wood-engravings plus additional colored vignettes by Laurencin. Associated with the Cubist literary and artistic group, but her painting uninfluenced by their theories; mistress of Apollinaire and socially intimate with the leading Cubist proponents. Text in French. Discreet, round one centimer stamp at lower corner of free endpaper the only ex-library mark, original glassine overwrapper chipped with some loss, plates and text clean. Lacking one centimeter of wrapper at backstrip head. Orig. pink wrappers printed and illustrated in black. Very good in worn glassine overwrapper. Item #18920
Price: $395.00