Les mystères de l'Académie Goncourt

first edition on current paper.
Binding in half shagreen burgundy, smooth back decorated with triple cold fillets at the head and tail, back with slight scratches without gravity, marbled paper plates, blunt upper corners badly reinforced with adhesive pieces, guards and counterplates of marbled paper, preserved covers and back, Contemporary binding.
Autograph signed by Jean Ajalbert to Armand Charpentier.
Our copy is complete with the amusing leaflet beginning thus: "the author absent from Paris came back there expressly for this 'press service'. Old habit of a man of letters, over sixty years old, who still grant some charm to a dedication, and do not reserve their signature to the passer-by in search of an autograph at a fixed price ... "to which Jean Ajalbert added a few words.