La nef

First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only major paper.
Binding half morocco blue at corners, back with four nerves decorated with gilded floral garlands, gold tail date marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of flowered paper, nets gilded on the cuts, wrappers and back preserved and bound in, gilded head on witnesses, contemporary binding signed René Kieffer.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed and dated by Elemir Bourges Henry Thuile on the half-title page that is shaded.
Nice copy wide-margined established pleasantly binding signed at the time.