Bernard L’ALGERIE 1929 

WILFRED BLUNT’S COPY

Author: Augustin Bernard
Title: L’Algerie
Paris, Librairie Felix Alcan, 1929
8vo format (15 x 23.3 cm)
iii-xvi, 524, (16) pp (bound without original paper wrappers)
Publisher’s catalogue at rear
Wilfred Jasper Walter Blunt’s copy - annotated in pencil (occassionally ink) on approx 50 pages, (but not signed), the majority with just underlining or marginal lining. Blunt later wrote his own book on the Algerian War: Desert Hawk: Abd El Kader and the French Conquest of Algeria (1947)
Handsome modern tan cloth binding with spine label, clean fresh endpapers
Text slightly browned like all trade French editions of this period
Condition very good
Wilfred Jasper Walter Blunt (1901-1987) was a prolific author and brother of the spy Anthony Blunt

N.B. Please see our 'Other Items’ for Blunt’s more heavily annotated copy of  L’Emir Abd el Kader. 1925, bound in a similar style