Charming exploration of life's sweetness

Description

Jules ROMAINS, La douceur de la vie, Imprimerie Nationale / André Sauret, Publisher, Paris 1951, paperback, untrimmed, flapped cover (spine sun-faded), 302 pages, publisher's cardboard case reproducing the signatures of the writers of the collection. Illustrated with a frontispiece lithograph by Heuzé (portrait of the author printed on the presses of Mourlot Frères in Paris). Collection 'Grand prix des meilleurs romans du demi-siècle'. Limited numbered edition, this being one of the copies on Arches paper, here no. 684 (Compositions destroyed and stone erased). A lovely fresh copy.