Beschreibung:

Gide, Andre, and Muller, Marie-Therese "LE TYPHON", AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT TRANSLATION OF JOSEPH CONRAD'S TYPHOON two notebooks, Marie-Thérèse Müller's text in blue ink on the rectos, with uncertain readings and phrases in English on the facing versos, every page revised by Gide in black ink or occasionally pencil and blue ink, minor corrections made on the rectos, extensive revisions on the facing versos, about 70 pages (including all of Chapter III) entirely cancelled and rewritten, both volumes initialled "M.T.M." on front free endpapers, with title page ("Le Typhon") and foliations (each with 118 leaves) by Müller, in total nearly 470 pages plus a small number of blanks, 4to (223 x 117 mm), in two lined paper notebooks from Grands Magasins du Louvre, Paris, 1916-17, in a blue morocco backed chemise, lettered in gilt, and matching slipcase, a small number of leaves excised in the course of composition, wear to covers