Signé ; Colette - Les Heures longues (1914-1917). - 1917

Exceptional original edition.
• Author: COLETTE (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, signing here under her married name Colette de Jouvenel).
• Title: Les Heures longues (1914-1917).
Arthème Fayard, 1917.

• Format: 19X12 - 236pp

• Legal notices: "Copyright by Colette, 1917" at the bottom of the title page.

Autograph inscription:
The work includes a long autograph inscription signed by Colette on the flyleaf addressed to her intimate friend (unnamed), the writer Marcel Boulestin (then mobilized and author in 1916 of "Sentimental Aspects of the English Front". (Verified)
• Full text of the dedication: “Dear friend whom I love, 'Your sentimental aspects' you will be one of two or three who will write after the war, about the war, with a measured sensitivity and the modesty that is needed. Believe in your old friend. Colette de Jouvenel”

Half-leather binding with a smooth spine - boards in marquetry art paper.
• Decoration: The boards are adorned with a decorative arabesque motif in pieces of dyed papers (Art Deco style).
• Original bound covers and spine preserved inside the binding,

Condition:
•Interior: Aged, yellowed sheets that remain clean.
•Binding: Cardboard partly yellowed from light exposure. The arabesque motifs remain clear. The headcaps and joints are in good condition.

There is a small sticker bearing the name “R. Anacréon”, Rue de Seine, Odéon. Inside the inner cover of the second plate.
• Note: This book may have been part of the famous personal collection of the great bookseller and bibliophile Richard Anacréon (1907-1992), intimate friend and literary godchild of Colette, part of whose holdings now forms the Musée d'art moderne Richard Anacréon in Granville (Normandy).

There is a newspaper clipping mentioning Richard Anacréon & Colette dated Le Figaro, 23/9/88.