Arsène Vermenouze (1850-1910) et la Haute-Auvergne de son temps

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Lafuma only leading copies.
Binders half shagreen cherry with corners, back with five nerves decorated with gilded nets set with triple gold boxes, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, wrappers and back preserved and bound in, gilded heads.
autograph dedication of the author signed autograph dated Jean Mazières on the first volume, Robert Garric, "... who, better than anyone, knows Vermenouze and knows about him, this book which, deprived of its generous contribution, would have been incomplete. .. "
Catholic reformist, he was the   founder of "social Teams" in 1920, which aimed to establish a social elite and bring the good word about the brotherhood born of the trenches to the workers, in the tradition of patronage. Simone de Beauvoir, then student of Robert Garric in philosophy at Sainte-Marie Institute of Neuilly, remembers him   in his "Memoirs of a Tidy Wench"   "Garric appeared; I forgot everything else and myself; the authority of his voice subdued me. In twenty years we he explained, he had discovered in the trenches the joys of camaraderie that removed social barriers. [...] To deny all limits and all separations, get out of my class, out of my skin: this slogan electrified me. [...] Must serve my life! Must serve all my life! "
Beautiful copy pleasantly established.