Pierre Loti / François de Marliave [illustrateur] - Le mariage de Loti - 1932

Pierre Loti. Le mariage de Loti. Paris, Henri Cyral, 1932, 304 pp.

Octavo volume (205 × 150 mm), half-bound in red morocco, raised bands on spine, in a slipcase (contemporary binding). Binding in very good condition. Interior very fresh. Original covers and spine retained.

Illustrated edition by François de Marliave

First published in 1880 under the title Rarahu, then reissued under the title Le Mariage de Loti, this novel is inspired by Loti’s stay in Tahiti. It tells the story of the relationship between the young officer Harry Grant and Rarahu, a young Tahitian woman, and sensitively evokes the encounter between two cultural worlds, the Polynesian landscapes, and the author’s fascination with a civilization he sees as threatened by colonial transformations.

One of 654 numbered copies on Rives wove paper