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Isabelle EBERHARDT

Contes et paysages

La Connaissance, Paris 1925, 16,5x24,5cm, relié.

Original edition in large part, one of 10 copies hors commerce numbered on Japan, our printed specifically for the Comte Georges Le More, print head. Bound in full blue morocco night, smooth back, framing a gold band with gold in spandrels on the dishes, and guards contreplats paper bowl, cover and spine preserved, contemporary binding signed W. Bronner moons. an autograph manuscript of the author of two and a half pages, probably unpublished, was mounted on tab at the top of the structure. This is in-situ observations of the habits and customs of Beraber Berber people of the South West of Algeria (wadi between Saura and Tafilalet). Undated manuscript refers to the use of the In Salah taken in March 1900. It was probably written during his expedition to the South, at the request of Victor Barrucand.D'une scarcity badge, manuscripts are Eberhardt moreover the subject of one of the most important disputes about the fascinating Isabelle. Buried with her under the debris of his house ain Sefra, some of his writings was recovered by Lyautey and the other by the husband of Eberhardt. Lyautey having entrusted the manuscript in his possession at Victor Barrucand, it published the first part works but largely reworked by him. So when the other part of the manuscript was entrusted to him, Doyon was keen to not change anything and publish verbatim as he recalls in the preface to these stories and landscapes. Illustrated book of a photographic portrait frontispiece of the author.

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