GARY (Romain). Lot n° 42

White dog. Paris, Gallimard, 1970. In-8, red half-maroquin with bands, orange paper boards squared with red and colourless discontinuous fillets, bordered on the outside by a short black box scroll, horizontal white œser fillet crossing the field, smooth spine, untrimmed, red paper lining and endpapers set with white and black paper scrolls, untrimmed, cover and spine, lined slipcase (C. Gevaert). First edition. One of the 23 first copies on Hollande vellum. A vibrant plea against racism and hypocrisy, White Dog is inspired by the lives of Romain Gary and Jean Seberg in Hollywood in the late 1960s, against the backdrop of the civil rights struggle, race riots and the Vietnam War, and then in Paris, inflamed by May '68. The novel was published the same year in a substantially different American version, under the title White Dog. A very fine copy in an elegant binding by Clara Gevaert. From the Jacques Culot library, with bookplate.