Diaeli. Le livre de la sagesse noire [Limited Edition]

  • Paris: L'Edition d'Art, H. Piazza, 1931
By Andre Demaison; Pierre Courtois [illus.]
Paris: L'Edition d'Art, H. Piazza, 1931. Fine. Paris: L'Édition d'Art, H. Piazza, 1931. First Edition, Limited to 50 copies on "Japon impérial," of which this is no. 19. Small octavo; 169pp.; publisher's white pictorial wrappers; illus. throughout. Just About Fine, a lovely, uncut copy.

By the noted French novelist who often appropriated African motifs into his works. Demaison would later be convicted, and eventually pardoned, for his participation in the Vichy Government during World War II.

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