Colette

1933 · 85668 — Paris: Flammarion 1933. Fine. Flammarion Paris 1933 11.50 x 18.50 cm relié First edition with no mention of deluxe paper copies. Half red marbled sheep binding spine faded with four raised bands decorated with a gilt floral motif light rubbing to the bands marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns sprinkled edges front cover preserved modest contemporary binding. Rare signed and inscribed copy by the author Colette Andris to Jean Blavet. Novelist music-hall performer and actress a forgotten and short-lived muse of the Roaring Twenties music-hall Colette Andris the pseudonym of Pauline Toutey managed to write three novels between 1929 and 1935 with a lot of autobiographical elements. She would die in the prime of life the following year. Born into an academic family she quickly gave up the administrative and teaching careers that awaited her in order to become a nude dancer and like her heroine Miss Nocturne to perform in the Parisian music halls. Flammarion hardcover