La porte étroite
Paris - Mercure de France - 1909
- Bookbinder : E. A. MAYLANDER.
- Format : In-12.
- Number of volumes : 1 volume.
- Binding : Hardcover.
- Collation : 273 pp.
In bordered slipcase. Bound in havana jansenist morocco. Spine ribbed with gilt date on tail. Ivory vellum lining framed with gilt fillet, silver moire lining, double endpapers. Gilt edges on witnesses. Cover preserved. Untrimmed. Binding signed E. A. MAYLANDER.
ORIGINAL EDITION of 300 copies on Arches laid paper only, with a green four-leaf clover at the proof.
The text appeared in the Nouvelle Revue Française between February and April 1909.
Enriched copy with a SIGNED AUTOGRAPH ENVOIY from André Gide to the Belgian symbolist poet Albert Mockel.
Founder of the magazine La Wallonie (to which Gide was a contributor) in 1886, Albert Mockel (1866-1945) was an early Walloon autonomist. A disciple of Mallarmé, he is notably the author of the collection Chantefable un peu naïve (1891) and the critical essays Propos de littérature (1894), Stéphane Mallarmé, un héros (1898), Charles Van Lerberghe (1904) and Émile Verhaeren, poète de l'énergie (1917). He contributed to numerous magazines, including La Plume and Mercure de France. His correspondence with André Gide was published in 1975.
A superb copy in a fine lined binding.
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