LEDUC (Violette). L'Affamée. Sceaux : Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1948. - In-8, 255 x 171 : 319 pp. with printed cover. Paperback, filled cover. Extremely rare first edition published confidentially by Pauvert and dedicated to Jacques Guérin. It is the second novel of Violette Leduc, in which she pours out her love for Simone de Beauvoir. The edition was limited to only 143 numbered copies. The cover is in chiffon paper from Auvergne. One of the 130 copies on cream vellum of Morocco, enriched with an autograph letter signed by Violette Leduc addressed on February 16, 1955 to Jacques Guérin, one page in-12 : " I had a letter from Jean but he does not tell me if he will be in Paris on March 7. If I do not receive any other news from him, I will send to "Atlanta" the scarf that I am knitting for him. " Copy very well preserved. Small light halo on the edge of pages 33-34.