Lot 74
  • 74

Huysmans, Joris-Karl

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • paper and ink
À Rebours. Paris: G. Charpentier, 1884



12mo (7 1/4 4 1/2 in.; 185 x 115 mm). Light toning to margins.  Half green morocco, spine in 6 compartments lettered gilt, top edge gilt; spine faded to brown, pencil notes by Mr. Auchincloss on binder's blank. Original yellow wrappers bound in.

Provenance

Pierre Lambert (library ticket, according to Mr. Auchincloss's note, Lambert collected Huÿsmans and edited his letters to Zola)  — Louis Auchincloss (bookplate)

Literature

Connolly, One Hundred Modern Books 4

Catalogue Note

First edition, presentation copy. Huÿsmans has inscribed his most famous and notorious novel on the half-title to French bibliophile and writer, Octave Uzanne: "À Octave | Souvenir de l'ami | JKHuysmans."