Paul Valéry - Le Retour de Hollande - Limited First Edition Literature but those Passages are Omitted

but those Passages are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Kitchen

Dust-jacket designed by Raymond Hawkey

acquaintance of Ian and Peter Fleming in Kitzbühel

Publisher's striking dark blue cloth binding with gilt lines to spine and upper

FIRST EDITIONS

Paul Valéry - Le Retour de Hollande - Limited First Edition Literature but those Passages are OmittedVALRY, Paul (1871 1945). Le Retour de Hollande. Descartes & Rembrandt. Maestricht: A. A. M. Stols, 1926. LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 18cm), pp.[2]; 26; [8]. Publisher's card wraps with integral dust jacket, printed in red and black to upper. Tail and fore edges untrimmed. Frontispiece portrait. Just 400 copies printed, this being number 154 of 300 copies on Holland paper. Textblock unopened, some spotting. Covers toned to spine and edge of