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Mont-Oriol

1887128 x 188 mm

FIRST EDITION

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FIRST EDITION
An unmarked copy of the current edition after 100 on Hollande.

Maupassant's fourth novel, which takes up a theme  about which he had already expressed his views in an article published in January 1882 in Le Gauloisfinancial speculation: 

"Transactions are fictitious, profits are fictitious, value is fictitious, it's a simple convention; everything is fictitious, and the first person to come along finds himself fictitiously rich to the tune of billions, only to find himself penniless a few days later.".

Well bound at the beginning of the 20th century.

 

Paris,Victor-Havard,1887.In-12, Bound,128 x 188 mm,[2] ff. - 367 pp.

Bound in the early 20th century in havana half-chagrin, ribbed spine, gilt title, pebbled paper boards, gilt head, bookmark. Spine rubbed. Cover preserved without the spine.

Bio

Guy de Maupassant

Henry-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant

(born August 5, 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil in Tourville-sur-Arques, Seine-Inférieure, and died July 6, 1893 in Paris)

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