MAUPASSANT, Guy de. OEuvres Complètes de Guy de Maupassant. - Lot 248

MAUPASSANT, Guy de. OEuvres Complètes de Guy de Maupassant. Maupassant's complete works, Conard's collective edition in part original. Paris, Louis Conard, 1908-1932. 29 vol. in-8, fawn half-basane, spines decorated with gilt title. Upper covers preserved. Uncollated, one portrait-frontispiece of the author in the "Boule de Suif" volume. Most spines sunned and scattered pigment stains, some rubbing or light spotting, occasional foxing. Partly original colelctive edition of Maupassant's complete works, as published by Louis Conard between 1908 and 1910. Only seven of the twenty-nine volumes in this set were not part of the first print run between 1908 and 1910. This edition has the particularity of containing unpublished short stories written between 1881 and 1892 in the two volumes of posthumous works (1910) closing this impressive series. Attractive set in uniform binding. Provenance : - Renaud de Jouvenel library (bookplate on part of the upper back covers).