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La Vagabonde
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Gabrielle-Sidonie

Colette


La Vagabonde

1910120 x 184 mm

FIRST EDITION
SIGNED AUTOGRAPH CONSIGNMENT
TO MARGUERITE AUDOUX

350 €

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20th Century Literature Remarkable origins First Edition Autograph

Description

FIRST EDITION, mention of sixteenth mile in the title.
La Vagabonde - a novel of autobiographical inspiration, combining the world of the music-hall with the story of the stormy relationship between the author and the writer Willy - was serialized in La Vie Parisienne between 21 May and 1 October 1910; the couple officially divorced in June of the same year.

AUTOGRAPH SIGNED LETTER TO MARGUERITE AUDOUX :

To Madame Marguerite Audoux
A nice tribute from
Colette Willy

Like Marie-Claire, La Vagabonde was one of the contenders for the 1910 Goncourt; each received two votes in the first round of voting, but the prize went to Pergaud's book From Goupil to Margot.

Paris,Paul Ollendorff,1910.In-12, Softcover120 x 184 mm,[2] ff. - 336 pp.

Some creasing to the cover, rubbing to the spine

Bio

Colette,Gabrielle-Sidonie

Gabrielle-Sidonie Colette

Born on 28 January 1873 in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye (Yonne) - died on 3 August 1954 in Paris. Mime, actress and journalist, a French woman of letters known above all as a novelist, Colette was after Judith Gautier in 1910, the second woman elected member of the Goncourt academy in 1945, of which she became president between 1949 and 1954.

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