signed
1925 · Paris
by Hellens, Franz (Frédéric Van Ermengem)
Paris: Emile-Paul Frères, 1925. 344p. paperback, crease down spine panel, minor tear at edge of the partly toned front cover, otherwise very good, inscribed by the author to a Gérard-Gailly. Collection Edmond Jaloux. Although Nabokov valued the Belgian writer's novels over contemporaries like Camus, very little of his work has been translated into English. He was nominated four times for the Nobel Prize in literature.
(Inventory #: 329576)