MAURRAS (Charles). The lake of Berre. The thirty beauties of Martigues. Provençal politics. - Mistral's wisdom. Masters and Friends: Le sacre d'Aix, Paul Arène, Frédéric Amouretti, Paul Guigou, Lionel des Rieux, Jean Moréas. "Barbares et Romans. Paris: Librairie ancienne Édouard Champion, 1915. - In-8, burgundy jansenist morocco, smooth spine, burgundy suede lining and endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover preserved, lined slipcase (Gras). First edition illustrated on the verso of the title page with a black composition by André Rouveyre, composed "in memory of Jean-Pierre Barbier who fell on the field of honor on December twenty-sixth, 1914". Copy on Hollande paper, unnumbered but specially printed for Madame Geneviève Ruxton, a woman of letters and member of L'Action française, and enriched with this autograph letter signed at the justification: "retour d'Afrique, // hommage très respectueux // d'un Français // exilé du 'front' // Charles Maurras." A very fine copy bound by Madeleine Gras, enriched with two small original photographs, 60 x 40 mm and 41 x 61 mm, preserved in an envelope on which it is specified that they are photographs of Léon Daudet and his son Philippe, taken by Léo Joannon, at his parents' home at the Domaine d'Antonelle, in Provence, in September 1920 or 1921. Spine slightly faded. Provenance: Geneviève Ruxton.