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