Belle de Jour
Joseph Kessel
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Full box calf french binding, edge-to-edge doublures in tha same box calf and stingrey skin, goatskin suede flyleaves, a blond hair reliquary is aureoled with the title onlays, folder titled by Patrick Prouteau, slipcase, Belle de Jour, Joseph Kessel, Gallimard, Paris, 1929, in octavo on vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre, 1/100 copies for the Bibliophiles of la Nouvelle Revue Française (this one copy XXXVI printed for M. Paul Largy), 17,5 x 22 cm, december 2019 (photo © Michèle Garrec).