GERDE, Philadelphe de. Eux ou En Bigorre en ce temps-là!... - Lot 162

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GERDE, Philadelphe de. Eux ou En Bigorre en ce temps-là!... - Lot 162
GERDE, Philadelphe de. Eux ou En Bigorre en ce temps-là!... First edition, enhanced with a beautiful autographed dedication by Philadelphe de Gerde. Published in Toulouse by Édouard Privat and in Paris by Henri Didier, 1934. Small 8vo (185 x 125 mm), paperback, cover printed in black. XXVII, 272 pp. and 1 title page, several black-and-white illustrations as inserts. Cover browned in places with minor tears along the edges, spine creased, margins browned, stitches of the first section slightly fragile. First edition of this collection of verse and prose by Philadelphe de Gerde, whose real name was Claude Duclos (1871–1952), a leading figure in the Gascon Félibrige movement and a major poet of the Bigorre region. This copy is enhanced by a beautiful autograph dedication signed by the author on a blank endpaper: “To Orion, the luminous constellation that illuminates the letters and arts of France in these times.” From the library of Claude Lanet, with his loose bookplate. Clean and fresh interior.
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