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Signed book, First edition

Emile ZOLA & Guy de MAUPASSANT & Joris-Karl HUYSMANS & Léon HENNIQUE & Paul ALEXIS & Henri CEARD Les Soirées de Médan

Emile ZOLA & Guy de MAUPASSANT & Joris-Karl HUYSMANS & Léon HENNIQUE & Paul ALEXIS & Henri CEARD

Les Soirées de Médan

Charpentier, Paris 1880, 12x19cm, relié.


| The Manifesto of Naturalism |

First edition.
Half blue morocco shagreen, smooth spine, gilt date at foot of spine, marbled paper boards, contemporary binding.
Exceptionally inscribed by Emile Zola to the playwright and opera librettist Ludovic Halévy, with the autograph signatures of Guy de Maupassant, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Léon Hennique, Paul Alexis and Henri Céard on the first flyleaf.
Provenances: from the libraries of Ludovic Halévy and Marcel Lecomte, with their bookplates on front pastedown.
Our copy also includes, on a flyleaf, an autograph note by Ludovic Halévy: "See a letter by Guy de Maupassant at the end of the volume. L.H. Inscribed by the six authors of the volume. Ludovic Halévy." (Voir une lettre de Guy de Maupassant à la fin du volume. L.H. Envoi autographe des six auteurs du volume. Ludovic Halévy).
The reproduction of the famous letter sent by Guy de Maupassant to Halévy in 1880 is pasted onto six additional leaves at the end of the volume. It bears Halévy's penned note at the beginning and end of the letter: “Cette lettre est de 1880 / 1880.” (Cette lettre est de 1880 / 1880). 
A fine and rare uncut copy of this manifesto of Naturalism, signed and inscribed by Emile Zola with the signatures of the other five authors to their librettist colleague. Halévy notably co-wrote the libretto of Georges Bizet's Carmen.

15 000 €

Réf : 87614

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