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

Fine

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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.