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Description
DURAS (Marguerite).
The Sailor from Gibraltar. Novel.
Paris: Gallimard, [1952]. — In-16, 182 x 117: 365 pp., (1 f.), printed cover. Orange half-chagrin with corner pieces, ribbed spine, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (G. Gauché).
First edition.
‘A man who wants to change his life signs on to a ship. On this ship there is a woman travelling the world in search of the sailor from Gibraltar whom she loved and who has disappeared.
Love blossoms between the man who wants to change his life and the woman searching for the sailor from Gibraltar. Together, they set out to search meticulously for this missing sailor. If they find him, it will spell the end of their love. A strange contradiction. From Sète to Tangier, from Tangier to Abidjan, and from Abidjan to Leopoldville, their search continues” (back cover of the Folio edition).
One of 55 numbered copies on pure-fibre vellum from the Papeteries Lafuma-Navarre (no. 28), the only edition printed on large-format paper.
A fine copy bound by Georges Gauché, from the library of Georges Pompidou (1911–1974).
Spine slightly faded, scuffing at the hinge of the front cover.
Provenance:
Georges Pompidou, with bookplate (auction 26 February 2020, lot 94).
See original version (French)
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About the sale
Claude Mozis Library – Black Africa and the African diaspora
Auction location
Auction time
10/21/2026 at 2:00 PM
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