André GIDE - Amyntas, notes de voyage [Superbe reliure] - 1928

A superb edition of a little-known Gide text.
Amyntas is a peculiar text by Gide: neither biography nor fiction, but notes (of travel) in which lived experience blends with the imagination of the will (to live). These are notes taken from 1896 to 1904, during the African journeys and gathered into four 'chapters' that are at once independent and interwoven: Mopsus, Leaves from the Road, From Biskra to Touggourt, and The Renunciation of Travel. [Centre for Gide Studies]

Copy published in the collection "Le Musée du livre", illustrated with a frontispiece and color-engraved banners by E. Feltesse. Limited edition, one of 1,230 copies printed on Rives laid paper (no. 814).

Text enclosed in a full red-grain morocco. The spine is smooth, inlaid with a title piece in brown morocco with a large grain and surrounded by Art Nouveau fleurons. The boards are inlaid with a band of violet morocco with a large grain, framed by gold fillets. Two lines of Art Deco fleurons and a gold fillet framing all around. Broad chased ornaments. Covers and spine preserved.

Good condition


Paris, Grès, 1928.
In-8 (19×14 cm).
255 Pages