Léon DEFFOUX
Du testament à l'Académie Goncourt suivie d'une petite chronologie du Testament, de l'Académie et du Prix Goncourt
Société anonyme d'Editions et de Librairie|Paris 1920|14.50 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 25 printed copies numbered on Holland paper justified by the author deluxe edition after 10 Japan.
. Bel autograph signed Leon Deffoux his friend Henri Beraud "Dear Henri Beraud By storing my closet with the books that evening, I found this copy on laid paper; it is not pretty pretty but just a little less ugly that you possess. Let me send you the pleasure to include your name on page 64. to you wholeheartedly. Leon Deffoux. Wednesday, December 13, 1922 (twentieth awarding the Prix Goncourt).
In addition, this copy includes autographs of Leo Deffoux additions to the famous page 64, on which there is a printed list of Goncourt Prize awards Deffoux that Leon has completed his hand until 1922, glorious year for Henri Béraud who was crowned this price for "moon vitriol" and "the martyrdom of the obese."
Back slightly discolored.
Provenance: the Henri Beraud rétaise library room.
. Bel autograph signed Leon Deffoux his friend Henri Beraud "Dear Henri Beraud By storing my closet with the books that evening, I found this copy on laid paper; it is not pretty pretty but just a little less ugly that you possess. Let me send you the pleasure to include your name on page 64. to you wholeheartedly. Leon Deffoux. Wednesday, December 13, 1922 (twentieth awarding the Prix Goncourt).
In addition, this copy includes autographs of Leo Deffoux additions to the famous page 64, on which there is a printed list of Goncourt Prize awards Deffoux that Leon has completed his hand until 1922, glorious year for Henri Béraud who was crowned this price for "moon vitriol" and "the martyrdom of the obese."
Back slightly discolored.
Provenance: the Henri Beraud rétaise library room.
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