[GIDE, André] Les caves du Vatican. Sotie par l'auteur de Paludes. Paris Nouvelle Revue Française 1914 2 vol. in-8°. Red half-maroquin with corners signed Devauchelle, marbled paper boards set with gilt fillet, spines decorated with a sixtuple frame of gilt fillets with gilt threaded nerves, gilt t., covers and spines cons. First edition. Edition of 550 numbered copies, 50 of which are on Arches watermarked with the NRF, the only paper, one of only 500 in the trade (no. 53). Complete with portrait of Gide engraved in soft varnish by P.-A. Laurens, printed on old japon and reserved for numbered copies only. Ref. Naville XLIV. Prov. Librairie Simonson (invoice).

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