Description

RARE FIRST EDITION.
Current edition after 12 copies on Japon.

Chronicles published here and there and collected for the first time. A reprint of the rare booklets is added in the back: Les dicts & faicts du chier cyre Gambetta le Hutin en sa court  and The Illustrated Passion of N.-S. Gambetta.

"A collection of very Parisian, very French chronicles, sometimes more witty than tongue-in-cheek, but always alert, prime-sauteur and shot through with a
a breath of freedom and generosity, less ordinary than seems natural in these times of the republic". (The book, fourth year, 1883)

SIGNED AUTOGRAPH ENVOI to Adolphe Racot :

"Hello Racot,
Nad
March 83".

The spine of the copy is split several times along its length, the copy deserves a binding.