LAURENCIN (Marie) - GIDE (André). The Attempt at Love or the Treatise on Unnecessary Desire. Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1921. - In-8, 239 x 203: frontispiece, (19 ff. 2 last blanks), 3 plates, illustrated cover. Dark blue box, first plate decorated with 3 pieces of dark blue lizard skin in the shape of a triangle with curved golden edges, smooth back, pink suede lining and guards, golden head, untrimmed, cover and back preserved, back boxing, dark blue boxing strips and slices, lined with pink suede (Mr. J. Guian-Milliaud). First illustrated edition, decorated with 8 watercolours by Marie LAURENCIN (1883-1956), 4 of them without text, engraved on wood in colour by Jules Germain and L. Petitbarat. Unique edition of 412 copies on Lafuma-Navarre paper. One of the 12 off-the-shelf, specially printed for Sylvia? (name difficult to decipher). Copy enriched with two thin japanese proofs of two of the book's in-text woodwinds . Beautiful binding by Marie-Josée Guian, made for her personal account . Cover restored.