Description
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.
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.