Hélène BESSETTE
La tour enrichie de deux lettres manuscrites : "ma situation financière chez Gallimard est très mauvaise..."The Tower, with two autograph letters: “My financial situation at Gallimard is very bad...”
Gallimard|Paris 1959|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of the review copies.
Dampstaining and a restoration to the spine, scuffing to the upper edge of the front wrapper, paper browned.
Our copy is enriched with two autograph letters signed by Hélène Bessette to a literary critic at Le Figaro, probably Claude Mauriac, concerning her recently published novel "La tour".
In the first letter, dated 30 April 1959, Hélène Bessette asks her correspondent to write a review of La Tour.
In the second, dated 13 May, the author expresses her pleasant surprise at having read in Le Figaro that her novel had attracted her correspondent's attention, while taking issue...
€800