HANLEY, James; Resurrexit Dominus

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From newsletter 22:

19. PEYREFITTE, Roger Les Amitiés Particulières. Avec, en frontispices, deux lithographies originales de Valentine Hugo. Paris, Jean Vigneau, 1946. 28 x 20 cm. Two volumes. Loose quires (as published) in fold-in wrappers, cardboard portfolios and a slipcase. (4), 182; (4), 182 p. Printed in red and black in 740 numbered copies. Slipcase partly discolored, backs of portfolios a bit yellowed. Bookplates (nice ones) and a few tiny owner's marks in ink at the inside of the wrappers.

€ 150

* Monumental book production, the first illustrated edition of this famous coming of age boarding school novel about Special Friendship. With two original lithographic frontispices by Valentine Hugo, signed in the stone. Bookplates for Ernst Lampe (1919-2000) designed in the 1940's by Gisele van Waterschoot van der Gracht (now exactly 100 years old!).