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First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on Japan paper, the deluxe issue.
Spine slightly sunned, otherwise a very good copy.
Preface by Léon Bocquet.
First edition, one of 55 numbered copies on mould-made Arches wove paper, the only deluxe issue.
Rear cover slightly and marginally sunned, very faint offsetting to the head and foot of the endpapers.
First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on vergé pur fil, the only large-paper copies.
"Collection Goncourt" ex-libris pasted to a flyleaf.
"When Batouala was first published in Paris a half-century ago, it was not only an event of major literary importance, but also a turning point in both the intellectual and political history of contemporary Africa. A creation of Rene Maran, an Afro-Caribbean who had years of direct experience in Africa as an employee of France's colonial service, Batouala was the first great novel about Africa by a Black writer." (Donald E. Herdeck...
Edition illustrated by Gaston Barret.
Publisher's full beige paper boards, smooth spine, a complete copy retaining its illustrated dust jacket, the latter with a few small marginal tears.
Precious signed autograph inscription from René Maran: "A M. Maurice Genevoix, qui honore l'Académie Française de son caractère et de son talent. René Maran."
Black and white photographic portrait of René Maran, contemporary silver print on gloss paper. Signature of the photographer Robert Davis (Paris) printed on the bottom right of the photograph.
The photograph is fixed with two dots of glue in a two-sided card wallet and recovered in glassine protection paper.
It is enriched with a signed handwritten presentation: “A M. Henri Devaux. Bien cordialement. René Maran.” “To Mr Henri Devaux. Best regards. René Maran.”
Photographs of the very discreet Goncourt Prize are rare and...
