Maria Chapdelaine (Binding, Odette Pilon) HéMon, Louis Sets & Fine Bindings

First edition, no. 1168 of 1800 copies on Rives (total edition of 2,000). 54 color illustrations by Clarence Gagnon. 1 vols. 4to. Binding by Odette Pilon. Bound in full brown crushed morocco, upper cover employing a motif of silver-ruled beams, wavy lines, and scattered white dots radiating from an onlaid brass semicircle at lower edge, spine lettered in silver; endleaves of white reverse calf lined with decorative paper, all edges gilt. Spine slightly darkened, small stain on rear cover, otherwise a lovely copy in an olive-green morocco-tipped sliding case, with matching chemise. Bound by by O. Pilon 54 color illustrations by Clarence Gagnon. 1 vols. 4to First edition, no. 1168 of 1800 copies on Rives (total edition of 2,000).