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L’envers du Music-hall

1913120 x 190 mm

FIRST EDITION.
SENT AUTOGRAPHICALLY SIGNED to one of Willy's secretaries,
Paul Barlet, a close friend of Colette

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FIRST EDITION. 
Copy of the current edition, after 30 copies on Hollande.

SIGNED AUTOGRAPH CONSIGNMENT to one of Willy's secretaries, Paul Barlet, a close friend of Colette, also known by the pseudonym Paul Héon :

"to Paul Barlet
in loving memory
of her old friend
Colette"

Charming binding.

Paris,Flammarion,Undated [1913].In-12, Bound,120 x 190 mm,248 pp.

Early 20th century binding signed (signature illegible). Green half-maroquin with corners, smooth spine, gilt title, gilt head, cover and spine preserved.

 

Bio

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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