Don Juan

Paris: NRF, 1948. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Inscribed by the author to Blaise (Blaise Allan). Number 1376 printed on velin Marais-Crevecoeur. Frontispiece is a color lithograph by J.C. Imbert. 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).

Very good in stiff paper wrappers with red title to spine and front cover. Wear to edges and spine ends of wrappers with chipping and closed tears to hinges and spine ends. Creasing to a few corners and a few smudge marks, but overall the interior is clean. A few splits to binding. In original glassine which is heavily chipped and worn. 80 pages. Thin quarto. FRE/121912.