Louis Hémon - Colin-Maillard [1/150 sur papier Hollande] - 1924

Original edition and one of the 150 copies on Hollande Van Gelder paper, numbered from CC to HV (the copy No. FM is for sale).
Covered with a double stitched binding, with flaps. With a transparent protection.

"Colin-Maillard" was probably the first novel written by Louis Hémon. According to the political events noted, it was likely written in the years 1908-1909.

The novel tells the story of a young Irish worker, Mike O'Brady, living in the poor neighborhood of the East End in London, in search of an ideal of justice but who, 'like in the children's game of blind man's buff pushed by the ironic hand of fate, searches, stumbles, and blindly turns'.

The manuscript of the novel found among Louis Hémon's papers allowed it to be published. 'It is undoubtedly a first draft, written in pencil, but executed from the first line to the last with remarkable certainty,' explains Daniel Halévy in his preface.

Sent eight days before its publication to two hundred people whom he considered the most qualified, editor Bernard Grasset received excellent reviews. Published in 1924, it was, for example, called the 'most beautiful book of the year' by the French newspaper L'ami du clergé.

Overall well-preserved copy: some wear marks on the caps, the hinge slightly cracked, hinge in good condition, fresh interior and free of foxing. Uncut pages.

Louis Hémon
blind man's buff
Paris, Librairie Grasset, 1924
278 pages. Complete.
In8 (13x20cm)