Napoleon

Abel Gance. Napoleon vu par Abel Gance. Épopée cinégraphique en cinq époques. Première époque--Bonaparte. Paris: Librairie Plon, 1927. First edition, ordinary paper issue, early printing (6e mille). Association copy, inscribed by the author to film theorist David Bordwell: "G['d' inset]avid / Abel Gance / 12 Mars / 1980." Octavo (7.75 x 5 inches; 195 x 125 mm.). [1, blank], [1, justification], [2, half-title (deposit notice on verso)], [2, title-leaf (copyright on verso)], [2, homage (verso blank)], 408, [1, printing note], [3 blank] pages. Frontispiece and eight additional plates, featuring a total of thirty-four photographic illustrations, inserted throughout. Publisher's binding in original illustrated wrappers, printed in black and light grayish blue; edges of the text block untrimmed; no endpapers. Spine slightly askew with a few vertical creases; backstrip faintly tanned with a price sticker (dated 1953, the same pictured in Viejo) covering the original price at the base of the s