Pierre MAC ORLAN
Les valets d'ombre
Edition de la belle page|Paris 1930|12.50 x 16.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 80 numbered copies on vellum, ours being one of 8 nominal hors commerce copies, the only issue after 8 China paper.
Our hors commerce and nominal copy is printed for Claude Aveline.
Autograph inscription signed by Pierre Mac Orlan: "A Claude Aveline, en témoignage de profonde sympathie littéraire, ces quelques éléments pour le cinématographe. De tout coeur P. Mac Orlan." (To Claude Aveline, as a token of profound literary sympathy, these few elements for the cinematograph. With all my heart P. Mac Orlan.)
Nicknamed at 21 "the youngest editor in the world", Claude Aveline would publish from 1922, thanks to André Gide and Georges Duhamel, some fifty works. In 1934, he would engage in politics, alongside Henri Barbusse and Romain Rolland, in the anti-fascist movement then, from August 1940, in the Resistance first in Paris then in the free zone where he would miraculously escape arrest by the Gestapo in April 1944.
Our hors commerce and nominal copy is printed for Claude Aveline.
Autograph inscription signed by Pierre Mac Orlan: "A Claude Aveline, en témoignage de profonde sympathie littéraire, ces quelques éléments pour le cinématographe. De tout coeur P. Mac Orlan." (To Claude Aveline, as a token of profound literary sympathy, these few elements for the cinematograph. With all my heart P. Mac Orlan.)
Nicknamed at 21 "the youngest editor in the world", Claude Aveline would publish from 1922, thanks to André Gide and Georges Duhamel, some fifty works. In 1934, he would engage in politics, alongside Henri Barbusse and Romain Rolland, in the anti-fascist movement then, from August 1940, in the Resistance first in Paris then in the free zone where he would miraculously escape arrest by the Gestapo in April 1944.
€180