L'Amour du Prochain

First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on alfa paper reserved for the service de presse.
Half red morocco binding with corners, spine with four raised bands slightly faded, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding signed Lucie Weill.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Jacques Chardonne to the Provençal writer, caricaturist and filmmaker Carlo Rim who was notably a friend of Fernandel, Raimu and Marcel Pagnol but also of André Salmon and Max Jacob: "A Carlo Rim que j'admire. Jacques Chardonne." ["To Carlo Rim whom I admire. Jacques Chardonne."]