224 - MAUROIS, André. *Les Roses de septembre*.

MAUROIS, André. *Les Roses de septembre*. First edition, limited first printing on Arches paper (No. XI). A very fine copy, printed especially for Gérald Maurois and enhanced with an autographed dedication by his father André, in a superb embossed binding by Victor Granghaud. Paris, Flammarion, 1956. In-8, full red morocco, spine with 3 broad raised bands with blind-stamped borders, blind-stamped and gilt borders between the bands, author’s name and title in gilt letters, blind-stamped decoration consisting of curved fillets and a blind-stamped rose within a double gilt border on the front cover, decoration in the same style on the back cover, guilloché headbands and edges, interior edging in the same morocco leather set with fillets and the bookbinder’s signature in gold tools, linings and endpapers of textured paper, gilt head, covers and spine preserved (binding signed V. Granghaud) 251 pp. Minimal scuffing at the top. First edition of this novel depicting the marital misfortunes of an aging author, Guillaume Fontane, who is seduced by a younger woman during a trip to Latin America. One of the first 120 copies on Arches chiffon paper (No. XI), printed especially for Gérald Maurois and enhanced with an autographed dedication by his father on the colophon: “With affection from his father, friend, and collaborator André Maurois.” A precious copy bound in a beautiful full morocco leather binding, embossed in the spirit of the book by Victor Granghaud, the Maurois couple’s preferred bookbinder.