A. Bailly - Le Ménétrier du Lesslac'h - 1932-1932

Description:
Illustrated collection of adventure stories and historical tales for youth, by Auguste Bailly (1878–1967), French novelist and historian, then a professor at Lycée Pasteur in Neuilly. Includes the main novel Le Ménétrier du Lesslac'h (Brittany) and several short stories: La Vocation de Benvenuto Cellini, Un bon tour de François Villon, Les Chercheurs d'Or, L'Oreille de Denys, etc.
Publisher: Librairie Hachette, Paris — Library of Schools and Families
Date: 1932
Printer: Brodard & Taupin, Coulommiers-Paris — No. 16525
Illustrations:
83 engravings in the text and as plates.
Exceptional provenance — Original Prize slip:
Volume retains its printed and handwritten Prize Distribution slip, dated July 13, 1932:
"Université de France — Académie de Paris — LYCÉE PASTEUR — L'Élève Nigay Robert a obtenu le 1ᵉʳ Prix de Dessin — Classe de Neuvième 1 — Le Proviseur E. de Ribier"
Remarkable coincidence: Auguste Bailly, the author himself of this work, taught at Lycée Pasteur at the time this volume was distributed as a prize — he would not retire from that establishment until 1936.
Binding:
Red leather half-binding with corners, spine ornamented with gold fillets and arabesques, title in gold A. Bailly / LE MÉNÉTRIER / DU / LESSLAC'H, boards in brown and black marbled paper of fine quality. Gilt edges.
Condition:
Spine leather: Very good condition, gilding bright
Boards: Beautiful, well preserved
Upper edge: Slightly worn
Interior: Very good, slightly yellowed, few foxing
Prize slip: Complete, handwritten in ink, in very good condition
Copy rich in literary and educational history — ideal for any lover of prize books, 1930s youth literature, or the work of Auguste Bailly.