GARY (Romain).

Les Enchanteurs. Paris, Gallimard, 1973. In-8 mounted on tabs, shark in bluish-gray tones, three silver wolfish discs mosaicked on the outer half of the boards, author and title in white œser forming two blocks on the boards, smooth spine, pearl-gray box lining featuring a mosaicked wolfish disc on the upper counterfoil, gray japanese endpapers, untrimmed, front cover and spine, folder and case sheathed in the same pearl-gray box (H. Liesen, 2018). First edition. One of 20 first copies on white laid paper of Holland. Of the Enchanteurs, Paul Pavlowitch - grand-cousin of Romain Gary and "public face" of Émile Ajar - wrote in L'Homme que l'on croyait: "The book smells of Russia and Casanova's Italy. [...] One finds in it the Mozartian music of La Chartreuse and the little Lithuanian Jewish violin, the Slavic part of the author, intimately mixed together. All the best, most tender and strongest that his art could offer against the invasion of reality. [...] He had just written the novel of his major obsession: a novel stronger than life, thanks to art." Attractive lined binding in shark stingray mosaic of sea bass signed Hugo Liesen.