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First edition copy. Collectible-Acceptable. No Dust Jacket Spine loosening and rear hinge beginning to crack. Frontis detaching. Writing inside. (France, Travel)

First edition. Illustrated by Biala. Moderate general wear, some loss at the crown, light dampstain on topedge slightly affecting very top margin of a few pages, hinges tender and starting in a couple of places but neatly strengthened, about very good in a worn and chipped, good only dust jacket. The Dedication Copy, Inscribed on the half-title to Caroline Gordon and Allen Tate: "The dedicatrix & dedicator to the dedicatees / with all love from Biala-Ford Madox Ford. New York April MCMXXXV." The printed dedication reads: "To Caroline Gordon / who chronicles another South / and to Allen Tate / Who came to Provence and there wrote to 'That Sweet Land' the poem called 'The Mediterranean' and where we went in the boat was a long bay. F.M.F. and B." Ford was a close friend, mentor, and the driving force in encouraging her to finish her first novel *Penhally*. She would dedicate her second book *Aleck Maury, Sportsman* to him. According to the index, Tate appears eight times in the text. *Provence* was published in late March of 1935, a few days before this copy was inscribed for Gordon and Tate. The dedication copy.