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Lot n° 163

LEON BLOY- ENVOI MANUSCRIT

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"LE MENDIANT INGRAT" (JOURNAL DE L'AUTEUR, 1892-1895) BRUSSELS Edond DEMAN1898. VOLUME IN-8, HALF-BOUND IN BURGUNDY, SPINE WITH FIVE NERVES, COVER AND SPINE ONSERVES. TRUE FIRST EDITION AT THE GOOD PUBLISHER AND AT THE RIGHT DATE, ONE OF THE EX. ON VERGE D'ÉDITION, IN WAS PRINTED ONLY 10 JAPANESE AND 30 HOLLAND IN LARGE PAPERS. AUTOGRAPHY SIGNED Leon BLOY TO Ferdinand ROTINAT ON THE FALSE TITLE PAGE. THIS NEWSPAPER WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS HIS MAJOR WORK. A FIRST VOLUME WAS PUBLISHED IN 1898, AND THERE IS STILL NO REASON TO PREDICT THAT IT WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A SEQUEL, THAT IS, PRECISELY, THE UNGRATEFUL BEGGAR.