Charpentier

First edition on ordinary paper.
Bradel binding in half navy blue morocco, smooth spine, burgundy morocco title-piece, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, sprinkled edges, bookplate affixed to a pastedown, binding signed by Kauffmann.
Precious signed autograph inscription by Guy de Maupassant: « À mon aimable cousine Lucie Le Poittevin et à mon cher cousin, beau-fils de Cornudet lui-même, leur bien dévoué... »
Our copy is further enriched with two autograph letters signed by Léon Hennique and Henri Céard.

First edition, published under the pseudonym Jean La Rue.

Contemporary binding in red half shagreen, spine with four raised bands ruled in gilt and decorated with black fillets, double gilt panels with ornamental tooling, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns in cat's-eye pattern paper, a few small bumps to edges and lower corners, sprinkled edges.

Minor, insignificant foxing.