LAFORGUE, Jules. Berlin, the court and the city. - Lot 217

LAFORGUE, Jules. Berlin, the court and the city. First edition, one of 15 copies on Japon. Paris, La Sirène, 1922. In-8 paperback, filled cover. CXV and 157 pages, 3 photographs and a facsimile letter. Spine wrinkled and split over 10 cm on first board, binding soiled; quires fragile, first partly detached. Posthumous first edition of this work written by Laforgue when he was a French lecturer at the court of Empress Augusta, wife of Wilhelm I, Emperor of Germany. One of 15 numbered first copies on Japanese imperial paper, this one no. 8. Preface by G. Jean-Aubry and bibliographical note. Enriched copy with a typescript letter signed by G. Jean-Aubry with handwritten annotations (2 pp. in-4, printed letterhead of "The Chesterian" magazine, London, July 12, 1921): he explains to a friend that he is very busy writing the preface to this book. A good copy, uncommon on this paper.