BOFA (Gus). Chez les toubibs. Paris : La Renaissance du livre, [1917]. - In-4, 345 x 272 : 62 pp, (1 f.), 3 plates on 2 ff, illustrated cover. Bradel half garnet cloth, smooth spine, gilt head, untrimmed, cover preserved (M. Magdelaine). First edition of this autobiographical album. According to Emmanuel Pollaud-Dulian, this work "justifies Bofa's reputation"; it is "the spontaneous protest of a combatant against the errors of military medicine" (E. Pollaud-Dulian, Gus Bofa l'enchanteur désenchanté, p. 14). The album includes 70 black compositions and 4 colour ones out of text. Some of these drawings were first published in March 1917 in the satirical newspaper La Baïonnette. Copy that Jacques Crépineau had enriched with the following pieces : - Original drawing signed by Gus Bofa, in India ink, captioned : " It is not what you think my captain, it is only that I am the invalid with the hangover... " - Sheets of the newspaper La Baïonnette of March 1917 containing the first published illustrations of Chez les toubibs . - L.A.S. from Gus Bofa, one page in-4, written in grease pencil, addressed to Jean Galtier-Boissière, about the illustration of the latter's book entitled La Bonne vie. - Brochure on Gus Bofa by Fernand Fleuret. - Article by Claude Roger-Marx entitled Le Rire jaune de Gus Bofa. All these pieces are glued or mounted in the copy. Tears and browning to the cover.