BLOY (Léon). Le vieux de la montagne. A follow-up to Mendian - Lot 389

BLOY (Léon). Le vieux de la montagne. A follow-up to Mendiant Ingrat à Mon Journal à Quatre Ans de Captivité à Cochons-sur-Marne à l'Invendable. 1907-1910. Paris, Mercure de France, 1911. In-12, half burgundy chagrined basane, 2 protruding nerves extended in arrow motifs on the boards, author and title and fillet, cover and spine preserved, gilt head (covers and nerves rubbed, paper yellowed, qq. passages underlined or framed in pencil). First edition (copy no. 906). With 2 photographic reproductions. Enriched with an autograph letter-card signed by Léon Bloy to Monsieur Paul Morice of the Mercure de France publishing house, dated Montmartre February 11, 1911, concerning proofreading; and 4 handwritten in-4° pages concerning Léon Bloy.