La Tentative Amoureuse, ou le Traite du vain desir

by Marie Laurencin, Andre Gide

$400 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

Laurencin, Marie. First edition, one of 400 copies on Lafuma-Navarre. 4 full page colored aquarelles and several colored head and tail-pieces by Marie Laurencin, engraved on wood by Jules Germain. 40 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Pictorial wrappers. A fine, bright copy in publisher's unprinted glassine dust wrapper; glassine is nicked at tips of spine, thin chip on rear panel, else bright and crisp. Item #333385

• Binding: Wrappers

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