VICTOR HUGO.
L'Année terrible. Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1872.
Large in-8 of (4) ff, 427 pp, paperback, cream paper cover.
First edition.
One of 150 numbered copies on Hollande paper (n° 96), the only large paper.
Autograph ex-dono on a flyleaf in-8 attached to the copy: "a copy of l'Année Terrible to M. Thalès Bernard, Victor Hugo, 24 avril 1872, Aux bureaux du Rappel, 18, rue de Valois"
Bernhard Thalès (1821-1873), poet and translator, was the defender of popular poetry from minority cultures.
Copy as issued, uncut. Spine slightly browned.
