Jules VERNE
Robur le conquérant. Un billet de loterie. Frritt - Flacc
Hetzel|Paris 1898|18.50 x 28 cm|relié
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A very long, unpublished, signed autograph letter from Marcel Proust to Maurice Levaillant, written in black ink and with its envelope marked “personal” in Proust's hand. A humorous typo by the author on this same envelope, marking it “au Figao” [sic].
A few underlinings in Proust's hand.
On 10 December 1919, which is to say a few months before writing this letter, Proust completed his quest for the Holy Grail: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower won the Goncourt Prize. With six votes to four, the “old” writer pipped his young competitor Roland Dorgelès to the post, whose very promising Wooden Crosses was tipped as favorite. “The prize brought P