Item #3264 Le Vieillard et L'Enfant. Abdallah CHAANBA, François Augieras aka Abdallah Chaamba.

Le Vieillard et L'Enfant

NP: [1950]. 139pp.

Item #3264

The author's most important and controversial gay novel, originally issued in three separate stages, this is the first edition of the complete text ("version integral") André Gide described his writing as “a bizarre delight” and there is a printed quotation from Gide on the half-title. Considered by many to be among France's greatest underground writers, his works have been widely re-issued in recent years. After years of wandering, Augiéras died in a hospice in 1971 at the age of forty-six. Very good in lightly browned wrappers. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper. Uncommon.

Price: $1,200.00