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Guy de Maupassant, Clair de Lune. Paris, Ed. Monnier, 1884. In-8, 117-[2]p. Illustrated second edition, published in the same year as the original, with the same illustrations as the other edition. The illustrations are by a dozen illustrators, including Grasset and Rochegrosse. Bound by Jadis (unsigned), full bottle-green morocco with foliage decoration, ribbed spine with attractive fleuron on the corners of the boxes, gilt head, covers preserved (without the spine) and lined, untrimmed, a few freckles, lined slipcase. This is not a mosaic binding, but a decorated binding. The motifs are painted, as if lacquered, with ironwork to delimit each part. An astonishingly fine copy of one of Maupassant's great novels (Talvart & Place, XIII, 252).

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Guy de Maupassant, Clair de Lune. Paris, Ed. Monnier, 1884. In-8, 117-[2]p. Illustrated second edition, published in the same year as the original, with the same illustrations as the other edition. The illustrations are by a dozen illustrators, including Grasset and Rochegrosse. Bound by Jadis (unsigned), full bottle-green morocco with foliage decoration, ribbed spine with attractive fleuron on the corners of the boxes, gilt head, covers preserved (without the spine) and lined, untrimmed, a few freckles, lined slipcase. This is not a mosaic binding, but a decorated binding. The motifs are painted, as if lacquered, with ironwork to delimit each part. An astonishingly fine copy of one of Maupassant's great novels (Talvart & Place, XIII, 252).

Estimate 200 - 300 EUR

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