1969 Scarce Limited First French Edition - La Fille de Christophe Colomb by Réjean Ducharme.

(Description)

Author: DUCHARME, Réjean.
Title: La Fille de Christophe Colomb.
Language: Text in French.
Publisher: Paris, NRF, Gallimard, 1969. First Edition, scarce with the original wrap-around glassine dust jacket. #3/25. One of 25 numbered copies on pure Lafuma-Navarre vellum, the only large paper.
Size: 8.5" X 6 ".
Pages: 232 pages.
Binding: Attractive and fine softcover binding (hinges fine with the scarce original wrap-around glassine dust jacket - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. 
Content: Fine content (bright, tight and clean - as shown, small ex-libris of Vincent Morel on the first endpaper - as shown, pages unopened).

The book: Scarce First edition with the original wrap-around glassine dust jacket, the third (#3) of 25 numbered copies on pure Lafuma-Navarre vellum, the only large paper of La Fille de Christophe Colomb. In 1969, Ducharme published La Fille de Christophe Colomb. Quite rare, it is a novel written in verse. It tells the adventures of Colombe, the disillusioned daughter of Christopher Columbus...

The author: Réjean Ducharme (August 12, 1941 – August 21, 2017) was a Québécois novelist and playwright who resided in Montreal. He was known for his reclusive personality and did not appear at any public functions since his first successful book was published in 1966. A common theme of his early work was the rejection of the adult world by children.