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Malraux, André. La Condition Humaine. With autograph. Dedication and drawing by the author on the front title. Paris, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1933. 4°. 404 pp, [1] fol. black morocco master binding (sign. R. L. Martin) with gilt spine title and vertical stripe design in red and black on spine. Gilt edges on three sides, purple chamois leather mirror and endpapers. O-rule bound in. In matching slipcase. First Edition. - One of 30 dedicated copies (GA 379): "A Mademoiselle Georgette Neuburger hommage cordial André Malraux". - Malraux's novel, the third part of his Far East cycle, both tragic and violent, became a huge success, winning the Prix Goncourt on its publication in 1933. La Condition Humaine takes place in Shanghai in 1927 and portrays the Communist uprising in March until its suppression by Chiang Kai-shek in April of the same year. - One-sided untrimmed, extremely fresh copy. - Bookplate Henri Paricaud on mirror. - ENCLOSED: Ders. antimémoires. Ibidem, 1967. in similar H leather by R. L. Martin. One of 80 numbered copies "sur vélin de Hollande van Gelder".

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