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MarcelSchwob

1894117 x 142 mm

FIRST EDITION IN BOOKSHOPS.
AUTOGRAPH SENT signed to Élemir Bourges

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ORIGINAL EDITION IN BOOKSHOPS after the confidential autograph facsimile edition published the previous year by the same publisher.

The superb lithographed cover by Jean Veber is here on a blue background.

ONE OF 250 COPIES ON VERGÉ À LA FORME (after 20 copies on Japon).

AUTOGRAPH SENT signed to Élemir Bourges whose first and last letters have been neatly removed to anonymise the copy:

"To [É]lémir Bourg[es], his admirer, his friend Marcel Schwob".

Paris,Mercure de France,1894. Softcover117 x 142 mm,83 pp.

Joints rubbed, small tear at foot.

(born on 23 August 1867 in Chaville- Seine-et-Oise and died in Paris on 26 February 1905)