Trois primitifs

First edition on ordinary paper; only 17 copies were printed on deluxe Japanese paper.
Bradel binding in full boards covered with glazed marbled paper, smooth spine, navy Russian morocco lettering piece, original wrappers and spine preserved, gilt top edge; an elegant signed pastiche binding by T. Boichot.
Illustrated with 6 plates hors texte.
A fine copy, handsomely presented in a pastiche binding.
With a precious signed autograph inscription by Joris-Karl Huysmans to his friend and literary executor Lucien Descaves.
Lucien Descaves, a naturalist writer, Communard, libertarian and anti-militarist, founded the Joris-Karl Huysmans Society in 1927.
From 1887 onward he frequented Edmond de Goncourt’s Grenier, and in 1900 became one of the founding members of the Académie Goncourt (alongside Joris-Karl Huysmans, Léon Hennique, Octave Mirbeau, Rosny, Paul Margueritte, Élémir Bourges and Gustave Geffroy), though he distanced himself from it in 1932 after the prize, seemingly destined for Céline’s Voyage au bout de la nuit, was ultimately awarded to Les Loups by Guy Mazeline.
On 2 May 1918, alongside Pablo Picasso, he served as a witness at the marriage of the poet Guillaume Apollinaire to the painter Jacqueline Kolb.