ROBBE-GRILLET (Alain).
Les Gommes. Paris, Éditions de Minuit, 1953. In-8, paperback, uncut. First edition in bookstores, published two days after the edition published by the French Book Club for its subscribers.
One of 50 copies on Teka vellum, the only large paper.
Alain Robbe-Grillet's first published novel, in the vein of the detective novel, Les Gommes is sometimes considered the first "new novel", although the expression did not appear until a few years later, under the pen of Emile Henriot.
A very good copy as issued.
Vignes, n°163.
