COURTELINE Georges (1858-1929)
La pendule, autograph manuscript signed, 1922; 14 leaves in-12, written on the front only, red half-maroquin folder, titled spine (Lobstein-Laurenchet).
Complete autograph manuscript, with a few erasures and corrections.
The text of the tale differs somewhat from its printed version.
It is folioed and justified by the author at the bottom of folio 14: "Copie certifi é entièrement conforme de la main de l'auteur, Courteline, mars 1922".
Appeared in the Gil Blas of October 1, 1893
