La Fille Elisa
Edmond de Goncourt, Paul-Louis GuilbertParis: Le Livre du Bibliophile, George Briffaut, 1929.
First Thus. Signed by person(s) connected with book
28.5cm x 21.5cm. [iv], viii, 202, [2] pages, frontispiece, 18 drypoint etchings within the text, etched wrappers. Text is in French.
Goncourt’s prostitute-prisoner novel, here published for the first time with original drypoints by Paul-Louis Guilbert, a preface by J. -H. Rosny Aine, and an afterword by Jean Ajalbert. Edition of 425 numbered copies, this copy on Arches vellum, unnumbered but inscribed by the publisher, likely to the Belgian publisher Albert Parmentier of Les Editions du Nord.
Very minor foxing to edges. Near Fine Condition.
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AU$400