Arthur de GOBINEAU Lot n° 32

Nicolas Belavoir. Novel. Paris, NRF, s.d. (1927). In-12, paperback, printed cover. First edition under this title and in the name of the author. Copy on edition paper. First published as a serial in L'Union Monarchique in 1847, this novel, contemporary of Ternove and L'Abbaye des Typhaines, was first published in Belgium (with the fictitious address of Paris, Souverain) in 1852, without the author's agreement, then chargé d'affaires in Hanover, under the title of Aventures de Nicolas Belavoir and the pseudonym of Ariel des Feux. "The present edition of Nicolas Belavoir can thus be considered as original; indeed, it is the first time that this novel appears under the name of its author: Gobineau" (Foreword of the editor).