[Anatole FRANCE] / From the library of Anatole FRANCE, "Jean - Lot 174

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[Anatole FRANCE] / From the library of Anatole FRANCE, "Jean - Lot 174
[Anatole FRANCE] / From the library of Anatole FRANCE, "Jean Jaurès - L'Homme - Le Penseur - Le Socialiste" by Charles RAPPOPORT, with a preface by Anatole FRANCE, Paris, Imprimerie Coopérative L'Emancipatrice, 1915, first edition on fine paper (unjustified), full parchment binding signed (stamps) W. DEGOTT ("Relieur d'Art 6 rue des Ursulines Paris 5), illustrated gouache boards, smooth hand-calligraphed spine with gouache illustration, foot with Anatole FRANCE's figure "AF", top edge gilt, cover preserved, photographic portrait of Jaurès in frontispiece mounted on cardboard under serpente, autograph letter signed by Jaurès in facsimile, 434 p plus erratum14.5 x 19.5 cm, some foxing), copy enriched with an invitation from Madame Alphonse DAUDET to Madame Anatole FRANCE from 1927 preserved in an envelope - The bookbinder is a very interesting character, linked to militant socialism: Wladimir DEGOTT (1889-1944) was a Russian bookbinder and leatherworker, who was won over by Bolshevism. He took refuge in Paris in the '10s, where he became a comrade of Lenin's, making him double-bottomed suitcases for transporting secret documents and money, going back and forth to Russia and becoming one of the leaders of the Communist International, appointed Deputy People's Commissar of the Federal Republic of Russia in 1929, arrested in 1938 as part of the Stalinist purges, he was deported to the Gulag - He is mentioned as having lived in Paris between 1912 and 1917 (see "Le Maitron" website for his biography) - Note that Charles Rappoport was also Russian and a Communist / Joint: original pencil portrait by E.G. (?) of Charles Roppoport made on the spot at La Rotonde in Paris on July 14, 1927 (9 x 12 cm)
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