[BERNANOS (Georges)] Georges Bernanos. Paris, L'Herne, 1962. 1 vol. in-4°, bradel gray cloth decorated with creative paper, gilt head. Bound by Honnelaître. A fine copy. Cons. covers. 164 pp. and 3 hors-texte lithographs by René Bro, Claude Lacoudre and Serge de Turville. Issue of the literary journal L'Herne devoted to Georges Bernanos, including seven previously unpublished texts by the author. Numbered deluxe copy (96) including three original lithographs. A fine copy bound by Honnelaître, with an autograph letter of protest from Bernanos to Léon Daudet on the subject of Mauras, and a curious autograph bill signed by Jean Giono in which he ranks the five best writers of the 20th century in his opinion (Proust, Claudel, Valéry, Alain and Bernanos).

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