REF. 0639

Le quai des Brumes

Pierre Mac Orlan

Publisher: Gallimard
Place: Paris
Date: 1927
Format: In-8 (189 x 123 mm)
Binding: Marc Poupelin
Collation: (1) f., 222 pp., (1) f.
Edition: Limited issue copy
Language: French
Century: 20th century
Distinctive features: From the library of G. Huré

Condition report

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The piece is held for you for 7 days, with no immediate payment — choose the “Reservation” method at the payment step.

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MAC ORLAN, Pierre. Le quai des Brumes.
Paris, Gallimard, 1927.

In-8 (189 x 123 mm), (1) f., 222 pp., (1) f., covers and spine preserved.
Black half-maroquin, smooth spine, title and author stamped in gold, endpapers in papier fantaisie (Poupelin).

First edition, in large paper, with a letter from the author.
One of 1100 on Lafuma-Navarre vellum pur fil for the Friends of the First Edition.

Precious letter from the author: ‘to Mr G. Huré / this little youthful adventure / on the fringe of certain conventions / most cordially / P. Mac Orlan’.
A signed copy of this novel, emblematic of the port atmosphere and poetic realism that would inspire Marcel Carné's cinematic masterpiece starring Jean Gabin and Michèle Morgan a decade later.

A superb, finely bound copy.

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