André Gide — Isabelle

Paris, Henri Jonquières & Cie, 1924 . Leather. Beautiful morocco limited edition of André Gide's 1911 novella, delightfully illustrated throughout by Jean-Gabriel Daragnès. Limited edition. No. 589 of 1100 copies printed on Arches paper.In beautiful morocco binding with marbled endpapers.Illustrated throughout with a frontispiece, seven further black-and-white plates and numerous vignettes. Collated, complete. By prominent French artist Jean-Gabriel Daragnès.The French-language novella, originally published in 1911, from eminent French author André Gide, recipient of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. In his lifetime Gide wrote more than fifty books, the first of which was published when he was twenty-one years old. Gide's texts explore his political and religious beliefs and the struggle of coming to terms with his homosexuality. Bound in morocco with marbled endpapers. Externally, smart with slight bumping and rubbing, leading to a small closed tear and peeling of leather at the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Tissue guard to frontispiece loose. Reasonably bright and clean with subtle discolouration and the odd spot throughout, heavier to the first and last few pages. Very Good . Ill.: Daragnès. Very Good .