Jules Romains / Maurice Berdon - Les Copains - 1930

A superb signed copy, numbered 84, printed for Mr. Doctor Rouhier and illustrated with lithographs by Maurice Berdon, with the illustrated menu for the “Friends” dinner of the Hippocrates and His Friends society -

This humorous and satirical novel that celebrates friendship, the spirit of camaraderie and the pleasure of mischief while offering a subtle critique of social conventions, of authority and of the excessive seriousness that characterizes French society at the beginning of the 20th century -

The work features a band of seven friends united by exceptional complicity, each possessing a well-defined personality but sharing the same taste for imagination, adventure and elaborate jokes -

Convinced that certain provincial towns dress themselves in unwarranted importance and that local institutions accord excessive value to official ceremonies, to dignitaries and to traditions, they decide to organize a series of hoaxes intended to shake the certainties of the notable and to reveal the often artificial character of social hierarchies -

Jules Romains / Maurice Berdon - Les Copains - 1930 - Hippocrate et ses Amis - [4] + 212 + [8] Pages.

Very good condition of the binding, paperback in its original illustrated wrap, under a case and a publisher's cardboard slipcase, light signs of use, edges slightly worn, spine smooth with a white title label -

Very good interior condition, title page printed in red and black and adorned with a fine vignette, work enriched with lithographs by Maurice Berdon, with the illustrated menu for the dinner “des copains” of the Hippocrate et ses Amis society, a handsome signed and numbered 84 edition, printed for Mr. Doctor Rouhier, interior fresh -

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