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Minne – Les égarements de Minne

1904123 x 200 mm

FIRST EDITIONS ON LARGE PAPER
OF THE TWO VOLUMES OF THE DIPTYCH
autograph letters signed

1 000 €

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Copy on large paper Top draw only First Edition Autograph

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FIRST EDITIONS  of the two volumes written under the name of Willy, later brought together in a new version, signed Colette Willy, under the title The Libertine Ingenue (1909).

  • MinneParis: Ollendorff, 1904. ONE OF THE 50 NUMBERED COPIES ON HOLLANDThis is the only paperback edition.
    copy with an autograph letter signed by Henry de Régnier to Henry Gauthier-Vilard - Willy about the book:

"My dear friend
The day before yesterday you sent me a very amusing article, and yesterday I received your novel! Thank you twice, I'll be happy to read Minne. It's hard to get back to writing after two months of laziness. Finally... I would like you to pay my respects to Mme Colette, to whom my wife sends her fondest memories, and to believe me most cordially, your Henri de Régnier. "

  • Les égarements MinneParis, Ollendorff, 1905. ONE OF THE 50 NUMBERED COPIES ON HOLLANDThis is the only paperback edition.
    copy with an autograph letter signed by Henry Gauthier-Vilard - Willy to Pierre Mortier about the book:

"My dear Mortier
[...] Your friend Dhasty told you about Minne's Wanderings. He's bragging. Only three people know about it, Colette, Polaire and me. I am mistaken: a fourth reader has had the proofs in his hands, Gustave Lyon, director of the Pleyel publishing house; I owed him this courtesy, having featured him in the novel".

Charming Bradel-style half binding in long-grained red and black morocco.

Paris,Ollendorff,1904, 1905.2In-12, Bound,123 x 200 mm,293 [1f] - 299 [1f] pp.

Bindings from the first half of the 20th century. Bradel-style long-grain half-maroquin, smooth spines, gilt title, cover and spine preserved.

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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