Mother and Child

LIMITED EDITION. One of 50 copies reprinted on Arches laid paper, the only large-paper edition.

This is the first complete edition of Charles-Louis Philippe's (1874-1909) childhood and youth memoirs, established from the manuscript by André Gide, Henri Bachelin, and Valery Larbaud, and completed printing on June 12, 1911. To address criticisms that this seven-chapter edition had sparked among some of the author's friends, the NRF decided to simultaneously publish a shortened version comprising the first four chapters, consistent with the one Philippe had released in 1900.

We are including an interesting signed autograph manuscript by Maurice Beaubourg, a review of the work from its publication in 1900.