GIDE, André.
Dostoyevsky according to his correspondence. Paris, Eugène Figuière et Cie, 1911.
In-12 [185 x 120] of 36 pp. : paperback, in a red morocco spine folder and slipcase by
P. L. Martin.
Rare first edition put on the market.
signed autograph on the false-title : for Maurice Barrès // A.G.
Gide admired Barrès, to whom he entrusted in 1891 his first work, Les Cahiers d'André Walter. The writer introduced him to Stéphane Mallarmé the same year.
Their quarrel occurred in 1897 with the publication of Les Déracinés.
A very nice copy.
