Edition de la belle page

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, s