COLETTE. La Femme cachée. Paris : Ernest... - Lot 488 - Ader

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COLETTE. La Femme cachée. Paris : Ernest... - Lot 488 - Ader
COLETTE. La Femme cachée. Paris : Ernest Flammarion, [1924]. - In-12, 181 x 114 : (2 ff.), 247 pp., (1 f.), printed cover. Purple half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillets, spine decorated with a central gilt and mosaic motif, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine retained (R. Affolter - J. Augoyat sr). First edition of this collection of short stories and tales which had previously been published in the magazine Le Matin between November 19, 1921 and January 20, 1923. "These texts constitute in the work a unique set by its formal and thematic coherence. Each text, always of equal length [...], explores with great economy of stylistic means the hidden side of love, its darkest side. Crimes, betrayal, solitude, illusions are on the menu of these "black idylls" as Claude Pichois and Alain Brunet call them" (Collection Colette commentée par Frédéric Maget, Bibliothèque Henri Clarac, Librairie Vignes, IV, 2019, No. 20). UNIQUE EXAMPLE, one of 400 on Lafuma laid paper (n° 221), ENRICHED WITH 22 ORIGINAL FULL-PAGE AQUARELLES. These watercolours, located on the verso of each of the fake titles of the short stories, are not signed. Of a very beautiful workmanship, they were certainly made for the Duke of Massa whose ex-libris appears on the first white endpaper. Spine faded. Provenance: Duke of Massa, with bookplate. - Lucien Chaffois, with bookplate.
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