Charles Nodier / Pierre Gandon - La Fée aux miettes [1/22 sur vélin avec suite] - 1938

Beautiful illustrated edition by Pierre Gandon of Charles Nodier's fantastic novel - published in 1832 - adorned with 20 copper engravings, including 7 full-page plates.

A very rare copy, one of 22 nominative copies on Arches vellum, this one printed especially for Mr. Paul Haasen. Accompanied by a suite of notes, printed in black.

Pierre Gandon (1899 in L'Haÿ-les-Roses (Val-de-Marne) - 1990 in Briare (Loiret)), French painter, illustrator and stamp engraver. He engraved numerous stamps for French postal administrations — metropolitan France, colonies before and after their independence — and foreign administrations.

Paperback, sky blue folded cover and double slipcase in azure blue percaline. - Very fine copy in excellent, pristine condition, some rubbing and handling marks on the slipcase and cover very slightly creased.

Summary:
"In a Glasgow nursing home, the carpenter Michel tells his story. As a young man in Granville, he one day saved an old beggar woman nicknamed the "Fairy of Crumbs" at Mont-Saint-Michel and promised to marry her."

Signed; Pierre Gandon [+ continued] / Charles Nodier
The Fairy of Crumbs
Paris, La Tradition, 1938
Large in-8 (26 x 20.5 cm); 231pp.