GUÉRIN (Charles) - DESBORDES-VALMORE (Marceline). La Jeunesse de Marceline ou l'Atelier d'un peintre, with a preface and notes by A. J. Boyer d'Agen. Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1922. - In-12, 184 x 116: (4 ff. first white), XXIII, 308 pp., (2 ff.), printed cover. Dark blue long-grained morocco, cold fillet between two double gilt fillets framed on the flats, smooth decorated back, light blue morocco lining decorated with a frame of three gilt fillets and gilt floral motifs and mosaics of green and Havana morocco, gilt brocaded silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges , preserved cover and back , case (Marius Michel). Edition of 414 copies, containing the preface by Auguste-Jean Boyer d'Agen (1857-1945) in original edition. The latter refers to this text as "the best and perhaps the only prose work by this incomparable poetess". The illustration consists of 27 original lithographs by Charles GUÉRIN (1875-1939), including a portrait of the author in frontispiece. One of the 4 head copies on china, enriched with a double suite in 1st and 2nd states of the lithographs, this one justified A. It should be the unique copy with all the original drawings of the artist but these drawings are missing. Each proof of the suites is initialled by the artist. Superb copy in double binding by Marius Michel, perfectly preserved.