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FIRST EDITION.
SIGNED AUTOGRAPH CONSIGNMENT to journalist and writer, elected to the Académie française in 1875, John Lemoinne :
"To Mr John Lemoinne
Victor Hugo
The hero of the poem, the donkey PatienceThe poet, who travels through history, meets Aesop and Apuleius and carries Christ on his back, before talking to Kant. Written in 1857-58, this long poem would normally be part of The legend of the centuries ; the publisher preferred a narrative form for this novel and Hugo published The Donkey separately.
Paris,Calmann Levy,1880.In-8, Bound,160 x 240 mm,165 [4] pp .
Bound in contemporary Bradel style. Half green percaline, smooth spine, gilt fleuron, rubbed burgundy title page, gilt title, date at foot. Cover not preserved.
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