Les Pincengrain

Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1924. Paperback. Very Good + in Wraps. Paperback. LIMITED EDITION: Marcel Jouhandeau (1888-1979) was a French writer who studied at the Lycée Henri-IV, and the Sorbonne in Paris. He was tormented by his homosexual tendencies and vacillated between practicing them and denying them. After a personal crisis during which he destroyed his manuscripts, he returned to writing. During World War I, he was a secretary in his hometown of Guéret, and In 1924, he published Les Pincegrain, a chronicle of the inhabitants of Guéret, which brought him his first literary success. Unfortunately Jouhandeau became a Nazi sympathizer, and in 1938, he published four anti-Semitic articles in a volume titled, "Le Péril Juif" (The Jewish Peril). This copy is number 737 of 750 copies printed and sold in the year of initial publication. An additional 30 copies were printed but not for sale. Cream colored paper wrappers with red title to front wrapper and to spine. In glassine. Minor wear includes rubbing to wrappers, browning to spine, and wear to spine ends. Light browning to end pages as a result of some tape that was placed on the glassine. Else is clean and bright. 237 pages. FRELANG/080410.