Mission providentielle

First edition strictly hors commerce, one of 5 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe issue.
Minor foxing without consequence on some leaves.
A handsome and very rare full-margined copy of this work denouncing the misdeeds of French colonization in the Maghreb.
Mission providentielle, published in 65 copies at the author's expense under the pseudonym of François Lazerge, consists of a first version of La Rose de sable which would appear, in its definitive version, from Henri Lefebvre in 1967.
Finally, fearing he would incur the wrath of the authorities, Henri de Montherlant refused to have Mission providentielle distributed and published it only privately.