Abel Hermant - Confidences d'une biche (Illustré par Félix de Gray) - 1924

HERMANT (Abel). The Confidences of a Doe. With a portrait of Lady Ventnor by Mario de Goyon, six.
Watercolors outside the text and thirteen initials by Félix de Gray.
Paris, 'Le Livre', 1924. In-8 (15 x 20 cm), 206 pages.
Paperback, printed cover.

Beautiful illustrated edition featuring a portrait of Lady Ventnor by Mario de Goyon as the frontispiece, plus six watercolors outside the text and thirteen initials by Félix de Gray.
Beautiful Art Deco composition, engraved with line work and hand-stenciled in colors.

One of the 950 numbered copies on vellum from the Voiron paper mills, this one no. 237.

A novel in which Hermant proposes a reconstruction of gallantry during the Second Empire, through the memories of Lady Ventnor, a heroine marked by a tumultuous youth, moving within the social and literary circles of her time.

Abel Hermant (1862-1950), French writer and playwright, prolific author of over 150 novels, 11 plays, as well as numerous essays and articles published in Le Figaro, Le Temps, Paris-Midi, and Le Matin.

Binding: As published, softcover, with a flapped cover.
Solid volume. Interior yellowed, without foxing. Untrimmed copy.
State: Very good specimen, clean interior, beautiful overall preservation.

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