first edition
1956
by Claudel, Paul
[Librairie] Gallimard, 1956. First Edition, one of 3,000 on alfa from a total issue of 2291; handsomely bound in 3/4 plum morocco and marbled pastepaper boards, spine with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., original wrappers and backstrip, printed in red and black, bound in, fine. With frontispiece portrait after a pencil drawing by Jean Charlot and a hors-texte reproduction of a portrait of Racine engraved by Edelinck. (Inventory #: 2393)