DURANTY, Louis Edmond. La Cause du beau Guillaume. - Lot 195

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DURANTY, Louis Edmond. La Cause du beau Guillaume. - Lot 195
DURANTY, Louis Edmond. La Cause du beau Guillaume. Rare first edition of this novel of manners by Louis Edmond Duranty (1833-1880). Paris, J. Hetzel (coll. Hetzel), Librairie Claye, s.d. [1862]. In-8, eggplant half-chagrin, cold-stamped faux-nerve spine decorated with title and author's name in gilt, speckled edges. Contemporary binding. 340 pp. and 2 ff. Minor rubbing, very slight sunning of spine. Rare first edition of this novel by Louis Edmond Duranty (1833-1880), about a young city-dweller who decides to settle in Mangues-la-verte, where he falls in love with a poor, disreputable peasant girl... A note on the flyleaf indicates that this copy comes from the sale of Duranty's personal collection. A pleasant copy, inside impeccable.
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