Louis Aragon — Aurelien

London, Pilot Press Ltd , 1946. First edition. Cloth. The first English edition of Louis Aragon's sweeping novel set against the backdrop of the Roaring Twenties, with the very scarce unclipped dust wrapper. The first English edition.With the publisher's very scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Aurelien follows the titular bourgeois hero as he navigates life post-First World War. The action unfolds against a backdrop of the famous Roaring Twenties as he becomes swept up in an all-consuming love for Berenice, a young woman fresh from the provinces.The novel was ranked 51st in Le Mondes's 100 Books of the Century. From French poet and leading voice of France's surrealist movement, Louis Aragon. He was a co-founder of the surrealist review Litterature and from 1959, he was a frequent nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with mild shelf wear and slight fading to the spine gilt. Dust wrapper is very smart, with handling marks and mild edge wear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with spots to the fore edge affecting the occasional page. Light scattered spots to the endpapers. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.