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Edmond de

Goncourt


Henri

Lavedan


Sire

1889124 x 192 mm

FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF THE FEW ON HOLLAND.
Copy by Edmond de Goncourt with an autograph letter signed by him

400 €

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Literature Remarkable origins Bindings of the period Copy on large paper Top draw only First Edition Autograph

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FIRST EDITION without the big papers announced.

ONE OF THE FEW ON HOLLAND off-trade.

Copy of Edmond de Goncourt with this autograph signed letter :

"To Mr Edmond de Goncourt
To the evocative magic of the respectful Eighteenth Sound
Henri Lavedan

Like many of the works in the Goncourt library, it was bound by Pierson in full red percaline and bears on the first endpaper this autograph note signed in red ink:
"copy on Hollande paper, Edmond de Goncourt".

A theatrical version of Sire was published in 1909, this very first version in novel form is rare.

Libraries from Edmond de Goncourt (our autograph signed) and Henri Lenseigne (Ex-libris engraved on wood by Clavarri after a drawing by Georges Bonnet).

Paris,Librairie Moderne,1889.In-12, Bound,124 x 192 mm,259 pp.

Contemporary binding by Pierson, full red percaline à la Bradel, title page, gilt title, date at foot, cover preserved.

Bio

Goncourt, Edmond de

Edmond de Goncourt

(born in Nancy on 26 May 1822 and died in Champrosay (Essonne) on 16 July 1896 in the house of Alphonse Daudet)

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Lavedan, Henri

Henri Lavedan

(Orleans: April 9, 1859; Écaquelon: September 4, 1940 )

Collaborator at theEcho of Parisat the Figaroat the Gil-Blas Henri Lavedan had great success in the theater: One familyThe four-act comedy, performed in 1890 at the Théâtre-Français, earned him the Prix Toirac at the Académie; he then gave Lhe Prince d'Aurec in Vaudeville (1892), Catherine, The Marquis de Priola, at the Théâtre-Français (1903) Le Nouveau Jeu, Le Vieux Marcheur, Varennesetc.

Henri Lavedan was elected to the Académie française on December 8, 1898, replacing Henri Meilhac, and was received on December 28, 1899 by Charles Costa de Beauregard.

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