119 - [LITERATURE] - MAURIAC, François

[LITERATURE] - MAURIAC, François Destins Paris, Bernard Grasset, “Les Cahiers verts” series, 1928 In-4° paperback, in its original double cover (green collection cover and two-color printed edition cover). Copy in a slipcase and publisher’s case. First edition of this major novel by François Mauriac, written at the height of an intense moral and religious crisis the author was undergoing. This story tragically intertwines the fates of four characters at the heart of the Viridis vineyard estate in the Gironde region. The plot depicts the profound turmoil stirred up by the young Bob, a Parisian aesthete on convalescence, whose free-spirited lifestyle disrupts the bourgeois order and shatters Élisabeth Gornac’s spiritual certainties. 1 of 390 reprinted copies, and among these, 1 of 55 copies numbered on Annam (No. 26). References: Talvart and Place, *Bibliographie des auteurs modernes*, vol. XIV, p. 58; Carteret, *Le Trésor du bibliophile*, vol. IV, p. 272.