GIDE André. Le Retour. Neuchatel et Paris, Ides et Calendes,1946.
In-8 (230 x 164 mm): 112 pp., [3] ff. In wrappers, uncut.
Original edition, one of 75 copies not for sale, printed on vergé crème paper. Presentation copy with an autograph dedication from Gide to Robert Mallet on the half-title page.
Robert Mallet (1915–2002) was a poet, academic, and radio personality. He received his first literary award, the Fabien Prize, in 1942 for Le Retour à la terre, along with a prize of 3,000 francs. He founded the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tananarive in Madagascar and served as its first dean.
