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FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF 50 COPIES ON HOLLANDEThis is the only paperback edition.
Frontispiece portrait of the author by Le Rat.
The eleven short stories that make up this last collection published during the author's lifetime were published separately between 1886 and 1890 in various newspapers (Gil Blas, Le Gaulois, L'Écho de Paris, Le Figaro). Before publication, Maupassant pointed out to Victor Havard that Useless Beautywhich opens the volume, was " the rarest news that[he has] never done, it's just a symbol". which "has a hundred times the value of Field of olive trees".
Well bound at the beginning of the 20th century.
Carteret, II, 122; Vicaire, V, 622-623; Clouzot, 198.
Bound in the early 20th century in havana half-chagrin, ribbed spine, gilt title, pebbled paper boards, gilt head, bookmark. Cover preserved without spine. Corners slightly rubbed, spine faded.
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