NOAILLES (Anna de). Les Vivants et les morts. Paris : Arthème Fayard & Cie, 1913. - In-8, 185 x 117 : 352 pp. printed cover. Maroquin burgundy janseniste à la bradel, smooth spine, gilt border inside, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, case (Stroobants). First edition. One of 30 copies on Japan paper, second paper after 10 copies on chine. Copy of the statesman and bibliophile Louis Barthou (1862-1934). The latter owned several copies of this title, including one on ordinary paper with a beautiful autograph letter from the author. He had the folio with this dispatch removed and placed in this copy on large paper which he had bound by Stroobants before 1922, date of the binder's death. The dedication is as follows: To Monsieur // Louis Barthou, // - this humble // copy, as // a testimony of // the most real and // lively admiration, // and to Madame // Barthou, in kind // friendly memory // Anna // de NoaillesThe copy was later part of the collection of the Marquis Emmanuel du Bourg de Bozas d'Est-Ange (1894-1990) . Small scratch on the first cover. Provenance: Louis Barthou, with bookplate and autograph dispatch. - Emmanuel du Bourg de Bozas d'Est-ange, with bookplate. - J.-M. Doumic, with bookplate.