Isabelle

New "first edition", printed in 500 copies on laid Arches paper and consisting of the second printing of this text (completed on June 20, 1911).
This edition, published less than a month after the original which appeared on May 29, 1911, is considered the first edition of this text, as the latter was almost entirely destroyed, André Gide being dissatisfied with the printing because three pages did not have the regular number of lines.
Half brown morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands set with black fillets, date and binder's name gilt at foot, pebbled paper boards, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, bookplate pasted on one pastedown, blue covers and spine unfaded as generally preserved, top edge gilt, elegant contemporary binding signed Huser.
Precious autograph inscription signed by André Gide to the symbolist poet André Fontainas written at Cuverville on July 3rd.
Handsome copy perfectly established.