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69 - RICHEPIN (Jean). *Le Cadet*.
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Estimate €50 - €100
Description
RICHEPIN (Jean). *Le Cadet*. Paris, Charpentier, 1890, in-12, 4ff.n.ch 361 pages. Contemporary half-maroquin binding in ultramarine, ribbed spine, gilt fleurons, front cover preserved. Well bound. Paper slightly yellowed, more so in the margins. First edition dedicated to the painter Georges Rochegrosse. - RICHEPIN (Jean). *La Miseloque*. Theatre people and events. Paris, Charpentier and Fasquelle, 1893, in-12, 270 pages. Contemporary binding in bottle-green half-maroquin, gilt head, cover preserved, trimmed. - Well bound, margins slightly yellowed. First edition. - RICHEPIN (Jean). Truandailles. Paris, Charpentier, 1891, in-12, 2ff.–286 pages – 1f. Bound in contemporary brown half-shagreen, ribbed spine with gilt fillets and dotted lines. – Paper very slightly yellowed. First edition. 20 short stories featuring characters such as street performers, the destitute, the hideous, the crippled, prostitutes and beggars of all kinds, as a prose continuation of *La Chanson des Gueux*. ALSO INCLUDED: - RENE MAIZEROY (Baron Toussaint, known as...). *L’Amour qui saigne*. Brussels, Kistemaeckers, 1882, small 12mo, 191 pp. – 2 folios – Portrait. Cherry-coloured half-basane, smooth spine, gilt fillets, marbled edges. (Contemporary binding). First edition of this collection of 10 short stories. (Baudet, ‘The Glory and Misery of a Belgian Publisher: Henry Kistemaeckers’, p. 126). Beautiful typography, printed on laid paper.
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