KESSEL (Joseph). - Lot 167

KESSEL (Joseph). L'Équipage. Paris: Nouvelle Revue Française, [1923]. - In-12, burgundy half-chagrin with wide corners, gilt fillets, ornate ribbed spine, gilt head, cover and spine preserved (period binding). First edition of this novel, for which Joseph Kessel received the Prix Paul Flat from the Académie Française, awarded to the best critical work and the best novel published by a young writer between the ages of thirty and forty. Limited edition of 900 copies, this one on vellum paper pur fil Lafuma-Navarre, one of 30 copies hors-commerce. Enriched with an autograph letter from the author to the writer Léon Hennique: "À Monsieur Léon Hennique, // en témoignage // de respectueuse admiration // J. Kessel. Spine very slightly faded.