Guy de Maupassant - Le Colporteur [édition originale] - 1900
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Description from the seller
Original edition of the collection by Guy de Maupassant, gathering stories that appeared in newspapers between 1882 and 1887 (primarily in 1883).
Nicely bound in ebony half-leather, with a gilt file along the boards, spine with raised bands underscored by gilt fillets, adorned with gilt compartments, fleurons, and a gilded head. A fine copy, untrimmed.
In very good condition, clean binding showing a few discreet scratches on the covers. The edition paper is yellowed, with no foxing.
Includes the following stories: The Peddler (1893), Beside a Dead Man (1883), The Greenhouse (1883), A Duel (1883), An Evening (1883), Once (1883, second version), The Avenger (1883), The Wait (1883), First Snow (1883), The Farce (1883), Letter Found on a Drowned Man (1884), The Horrible (1884), The Tic (1884), Finished (1885), My Twenty-Five Days (1885), The Latin Question (1886), The Farmer (1886), Cry of Alarm (1886), New Year's Gifts (1887), After.
Provenance: Ex-libris stamped by Charles Fruchier, lawyer in Digne.
Guy de Maupassant
The Peddler
Paris, P. Ollendorf, 1900
in-12 ( 18 x 12cm); 346pp
Seller's Story
Original edition of the collection by Guy de Maupassant, gathering stories that appeared in newspapers between 1882 and 1887 (primarily in 1883).
Nicely bound in ebony half-leather, with a gilt file along the boards, spine with raised bands underscored by gilt fillets, adorned with gilt compartments, fleurons, and a gilded head. A fine copy, untrimmed.
In very good condition, clean binding showing a few discreet scratches on the covers. The edition paper is yellowed, with no foxing.
Includes the following stories: The Peddler (1893), Beside a Dead Man (1883), The Greenhouse (1883), A Duel (1883), An Evening (1883), Once (1883, second version), The Avenger (1883), The Wait (1883), First Snow (1883), The Farce (1883), Letter Found on a Drowned Man (1884), The Horrible (1884), The Tic (1884), Finished (1885), My Twenty-Five Days (1885), The Latin Question (1886), The Farmer (1886), Cry of Alarm (1886), New Year's Gifts (1887), After.
Provenance: Ex-libris stamped by Charles Fruchier, lawyer in Digne.
Guy de Maupassant
The Peddler
Paris, P. Ollendorf, 1900
in-12 ( 18 x 12cm); 346pp

