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.
