La Tentative Amoureuse ou le Traite du vain desir by Andre Gide

Paris: Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1921. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. pink wrappers printed and illustrated in black. Very good in worn glassine overwrapper. Approximately 40 pages. 24 x 20 cm. Limited edition, copy 287 of 400 on papier Lafuma-Navarre. Four full-page colored wood-engravings plus additional colored vignettes by Laurencin. Associated with the Cubist literary and artistic group, but her painting uninfluenced by their theories; mistress of Apollinaire and socially intimate with the leading Cubist proponents. Text in French. Discreet, round one centimer stamp at lower corner of free endpaper the only ex-library mark, original glassine overwrapper chipped with some loss, plates and text clean. Lacking one centimeter of wrapper at backstrip head.