GIDE, André.
The Notebooks of André Walter. Posthumous work. Paris, Librairie de l'Art indépendant, 1891.
In-12 [150 x 109] of (4) ff. the first blank, 288 pp. brown half-chagrin, spine ribbed, gilt head, untrimmed, cover preserved (Favre-Petit-Mermet).
First edition in bookstores : one of 125 copies on stained vellum (n° 174).
Autograph letter signed on the false-title (the name of the addressee has been erased): to [...] // these posthumous pages // for a little friendship // André Gide // "There are mornings when one gets up before dawn // ...." // Nourritures terrestres.
Good copy. Some rubbing to the hinges.