FRANCE, Anatole. Les sept femmes de la Barbe-Bleue et autres contes merveilleux.
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, [1909].

Octavo (195 x 138 mm). (3) ff., 306 pp., (2) ff. Original wrappers and spine preserved.
Full green morocco, covers framed with a triple gilt fillet, raised bands, compartments framed by a triple gilt fillet, author, title and date in gilt, double gilt fillet to board edges, top edge gilt over witnesses, turn-ins decorated with a wide gilt dentelle, untrimmed (Durvand).

First edition, on Holland paper, with a letter by Anatole France.
One of 125 copies on Holland paper, normally numbered, but this one unnumbered and inscribed for Michel Manzi, the printer-publisher associated with Joyant.

The accompanying letter, one and a half pages on a bifolium, is frayed with slight loss to the text on the first leaf. An etched portrait of Anatole France on a loose leaf is also included.

From an unidentified library, "AL"; its bookplate.
A handsome copy, joints slightly worn.