Guy de Maupassant - La Vie errante - Edition originale...

Guy de Maupassant. The Wandering Life. At Paul Ollendorff, publisher, Paris 1890, in-12 (13.5 x 18.7 cm), 233 pages + a flyleaf (table of contents), complete. Period binding in the bradel style signed Carayon in half green morocco with corners, smooth spine, date at the tail, covers and spine preserved. Original edition, one of 100 copies of the limited head-printed edition on Hollande paper numbered at the press, this one no. 76. The copy is enriched with a folding facsimile document ("The last lines of Guy de Maupassant [...] Those not published - God"). Interior fresh, rare foxing along the edges of the margins, otherwise a fine copy with wide margins preserved, untrimmed. Very careful packing in a rigid and watertight carton.

Estimate:£510.12

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