DU GARD, Robert Martin

Jean Barois

Paris: Gallimard, [1946]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original blue decorated cloth. Spine faded. Item #409357

Originally published in 1913, this is number 991 of 40 'hors commerce' copies, of an edition of 1000. With a 16-line manuscript quotation by the author taken from the novel, written on the half-title and signed "Roger Martin du Gard 1947." du Gard had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1937.

Price: $400.00