La comédie de Charleroi

Gallimard | Paris 1934 | 12 x 19 cm | bound
First edition, one of 77 numbered copies on esparto, ours is one the 27 hors commerce copies, only large paper after 45 pure wire.
Bound in half red morocco, spine in five compartments, gilt date at the foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, wrappers and sun exposed spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed Montecot.

Precious handwritten presentation signed by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle: “à Roland Dorgelès qui connait la question. Drieu La Rochelle.” “To Roland Dorgelès who has knowledge of the matter. Drieu La Rochelle.”
A story of a WWI French soldier given to a WWI French soldier by a WWI French soldier.
A beautiful copy, pleasantly set.