Lot 53
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GIDE, André (1869-1951). L'Immoraliste: roman. Paris: Mercure de France, 1921. 8°. (First dozen leaves mouldy and perished.) Contemporary red cloth with black spine labels. Fourth edition. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'exemplaire de Lady Ottoline, André Gide 28 Aout 1920'. In her biography, Miranda Seymour records only one visit by Gide to Garsington, in 1919, when he met Mark Gertler and W. B. Yeats (p.308). Ottoline and several friends had also met him at the Ballet Russes in 1918, when Aldous Huxley noted that he looked 'like a baboon with the voice, manners and education of Bloomsbury in French' (Sybille Bedford, Aldous Huxley, vol. 1, p. 98).
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GIDE, André (1869-1951). L'Immoraliste: roman. Paris: Mercure de France, 1921. 8°. (First dozen leaves mouldy and perished.) Contemporary red cloth with black spine labels. Fourth edition. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'exemplaire de Lady Ottoline, André Gide 28 Aout 1920'. In her biography, Miranda Seymour records only one visit by Gide to Garsington, in 1919, when he met Mark Gertler and W. B. Yeats (p.308). Ottoline and several friends had also met him at the Ballet Russes in 1918, when Aldous Huxley noted that he looked 'like a baboon with the voice, manners and education of Bloomsbury in French' (Sybille Bedford, Aldous Huxley, vol. 1, p. 98).

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GIDE, André (1869-1951). L'Immoraliste: roman. Paris: Mercure de France, 1921. 8°. (First dozen leaves mouldy and perished.) Contemporary red cloth with black spine labels. Fourth edition. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'exemplaire de Lady Ottoline, André Gide 28 Aout 1920'. In her biography, Miranda Seymour records only one visit by Gide to Garsington, in 1919, when he met Mark Gertler and W. B. Yeats (p.308). Ottoline and several friends had also met him at the Ballet Russes in 1918, when Aldous Huxley noted that he looked 'like a baboon with the voice, manners and education of Bloomsbury in French' (Sybille Bedford, Aldous Huxley, vol. 1, p. 98).

GIDE, André. La Porte etroite: roman. Paris: Mercure de France, 1921. 8°. Contemporary red cloth with black spine labels. Seventh edition. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'exemplaire de Lady Ottoline, André Gide 28 Aout 1920'. (2)
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