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Lot n° 50

Jean de LA VARENDE ,

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Country of Ouche. 1740 - 1933. Introduction by M. le Duc de Broglie, member of the Académie française and of the Institut. Rouen, Maugard, s.d. (1934). In-4 of 227 pp, (1) f., bradel blue half-maroquin with corners, smooth spine with gilt title, cover and spine kept (E. Maylander). First edition. One of the 50 first copies numbered on Lafuma vellum (n° 14). First work published by La Varende, this collection of fourteen short stories crowned Prix des Vikings brought him immediate fame. Nice copy. Joint : L'Abb aye du Bec-Hellouin. (Paris), Plon, 1951. In-4 with a frontispiece, (2) ff, 37 pp, (2) ff, 12 pl. paperback, illustrated cover. First edition, illustrated with 26 photographs by Jean-Marie Marcel (including two on the cover). Plan of the abbey in the 17th century in the frontispiece.