HUYSMANS (Joris-Karl). Marthe. History of... - Lot 212 - Normandy Auction

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HUYSMANS (Joris-Karl). Marthe. History of... - Lot 212 - Normandy Auction
HUYSMANS (Joris-Karl). Marthe. History of a girl. Brussels, J. Gay, 1876. In-12, tobacco morocco, spine with four raised bands, author, title, place and date gilt, cold fillet at the edges, morocco spine flaps decorated with gilt fillets and flowers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, case [Ch. Septier] (slight rubbing to the case; some browning). First edition of this naturalist novel which was forbidden to be published in France for offending public morality. Autograph letter signed by Huysmans "To M. Heymann, his grateful one". This addressee remains to be identified; perhaps it is the Parisian publisher H. Heymann, who published in 1878 a book by Théodore Duret on the impressionist painters.
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