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Auction: 316 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 1218

Authors: Gide, André. French writer and essayist, an inspiration for Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre; known both for his fictional and autobiographical work, his career ranged from the symbolist movement to the advent of anti-colonialism; winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Literature. His essays on, "Montaigne". London, Blackamore Press, 1929. Green cloth weave covers. Signed on front endpaper "André Gide" Number "547" of 800 (300 British, 500 U.S.). Spine splitting with some fraying top and bottom, some light page creasing, Good.

Estimate
$250 to $350