Editions Pastorelly

First edition, one of 1,000 numbered copies on Renage vellum, the only deluxe paper issue after 26 copies on pure rag paper.
An important body of memoirs by Marcel Pagnol.

Light foxing to the upper edges of the volumes.
Very fine copies.

Souvenirs d'Enfance :
La Gloire de mon père – Le Château de ma mère – Le Temps des secrets
Published the same year as the first edition, false statement of a thousand for each of the three volumes.

Bound in half green morocco, spine in four compartments set with black fillets, comb-patterned paper boards and endpapers, wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt on the rough, contemporary binding signed Lucie Weill.
Moving handwritten inscriptions signed by Marcel Pagnol to his great friend the Provençal writer, filmmaker and caricaturist Carlo R

Edition of the year of the original, fanciful mention thirtieth thousand.
Signed autograph from Marcel Pagnol to Hélène Maurel: "... the friend of his grandfather ..."
A pale wetting on the back, three spots on the first board, nice interior condition despite a clear marginal wetting on the last guard.