Rostand - Les Familiotes [Exemplaire ad Personam sur Papier de Hollande] - 1925

Rare and exceptional edition of this work by Jean Rostand (1894-1977): it belongs to an extremely valuable print run printed on Dutch paper (papier de Hollande), here in an ad personam presentation that is unnamed and left blank by the publisher.

Jean Rostand, famed French biologist and philosopher, analyzes with a critical, essayistic tone the social dynamics, bourgeois morality, and the era’s view of the family.

Jean Rostand, Les Familiotes et autres essais de mystique bourgeois, Paris, Bibliothèque-Charpentier, Eugène Fasquelle, Éditeur, 1925.

Pp.: 261, (III). COMPLETE.

Untouched copy with leaves in good condition, printed on thick Dutch paper with a strong tactile quality. Usual signs of use and age.

Original publishers’ soft cover, with minor defects and missing parts but overall in good condition. The margins are wide and untrimmed, with the typical alternating gatherings characteristic of fine, untrimmed printings that create a bird’s-beak effect.