L'inutile beauté

Original edition on the current paper.
Binding bronze half calf, smooth back, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved cover, elegant binding pastiche signed P. Goy & C. Vilaine.
Signed autograph of the author Bookseller Achilles Heymann. This bookseller was "one of the most picturesque types of Paris. (...) All birds (...), students, sometimes even literate, came to consult this man who knew all of the library, the book he was reading or at least bought. " (G. Baume In the land of letters, 1922).
Maupassant did was not wrong, as he says in the letter to Henry Kistemaeckers of 7 May 1882 "I answer for sale at the Bookstore New You will see the 3 employees are called Achilles Heymann, Ménard and.. Reboul (...) It is essential (...) to provide a copy to each (...). - I'll go to the library to write a word for each of them - in this one house has sold 900 copies of La Maison Tellier. No newspaper is used as the three advertising. "