Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1926.
Price: $7,500.00
Softcover. First edition. Printed wrappers as issued. Very slight wrinkling on the front wrap, still easily fine. This is Copy #1 of seven copies on Japon (of the seven there were also two copies *hors commerce* numbered HCI and HCII). Very warmly Inscribed by the author: "á Monsieur Brun qui a si cordialement accueilli mon début. Avec la reconnaissance de René Clair," which translates roughly as "To Mr. Brun who so cordially welcomed my debut. With appreciation, René Clair." A nicely inscribed, and highly limited issue of the first novel by the famous French film director probably best known in the English-speaking world for his 1945 film of Agatha Christie’s *And Then There Were None.* Rare.
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