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Gros & Delettrez
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ROSNY AINE, J. H.
See original version (French)
220
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ROSNY AINE, J. H.
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €150
Voluntary lot
Description
ROSNY AINE, J. H.
In the Streets. A novel of Apache mores.
Paris, Charpentier, Eugène Fasquelle, 1913.
Square 8vo, (4)-VI-416 pp. Contemporary fawn morocco, plain spine, gilt title, covers cold-stamped with a border featuring scrolls in the spandrels; yellow cover and spine preserved (spine slightly faded, a minor tear to the cover, some transfer from the cover onto the first and last folios).
A fine copy.
First printing of the first edition, 10 copies on Dutch laid paper.
Copy no. 1, on laid paper.
With full margins and marginal marks.
*Dans les rues* is the second novel in J.-H. Rosny aîné’s *Rafales* series, offering a realistic and social portrayal of the Parisian underworld intertwined with bourgeois society in the early 20th century
Ex libris by François Pigé, engraved in green by Stern.
Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné.
Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller with a passion for bookbinding, a flautist and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Arts Décoratifs and their schools through his uncle, the architect and Academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were mainly staged in the Paris region.
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