La symphonie pastorale
Paris - NRF - 1919
- Bookbinder : Gruel
- Format : In-16.
- Number of volumes : 1 volume.
- Binding : Hardcover.
- Collation : 145 pp.
In lined slipcase. Bound in full red morocco. Spine ribbed with gilt fillets of unequal length. Triple gilt fillet framing the boards. All edges gilt. Salmon morocco lining with geometric decoration. Blue cover and spine preserved. Binding signed GRUEL.
FIRST EDITION. One of 18 copies hors commerce on Arches paper. Copy of the second printing with title and spine cover dated 1920 (a first printing dated 1919 was entirely destroyed on Gide's initiative, with the exception of 12 copies).
This is a short novel about a blind woman named Gertrude who is taken in by a Protestant pastor and his wife. The pastor teaches Gertrude to read and to appreciate the beauty of the natural world. Eventually, however, Gertrude falls in love with the pastor, and her love is not reciprocated.
A fine copy.
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