MARAN (René). Batouala. Paris, Albin Michel, 1921. In-12, brown half-maroquin, boards covered with printed paper, smooth spine, gilt head, cover and spine (Devauchelle). First edition of this "suite of African etchings", with its important preface denouncing the errors of certain administrators in Oubangui-Chari. One of 30 copies on vergé pur fil, the only large paper, this one number 1. This copy is enriched with two black and white photographic portraits of the author, mounted at the beginning of the work.