MAUPASSANT (Guy de)

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MAUPASSANT (Guy de)
Moonlight. Paris, Paul Ollendorff, 1888. In-12, 2 ff.n.ch. and 318 pp.: bradel cardboard box of canvas printed in colours with motifs of birds in a flower bed, one of them holding a strawberry in its beak, smooth spine, dark blue title coin, golden head, untrimmed, cover (Henry-Joseph Pierson). Partly original edition, expanded with 5 new stories: The Door, The Father, Moiron, Our Letters and The Night (Nightmare). It was printed 20 numbered copies on paper from Holland. The collection, published for the first time in 1883, contains stories and short stories published in newspapers such as Le Gaulois or Gil Blas. Most of them belong to the fantasy genre; the short story entitled Le Loup, purely hunting, tells the story of the pursuit in 1764 of a ferocious and monstrous wolf related to the mythical Beast of Gévaudan. Autograph signed on the false title: to my friend Doctor Cazalis and to the poet I love Guy de Maupassant. Doctor and symbolist poet, Henri Cazalis (1840-1909) was Mallarmé's confidant. His patient was Guy de Maupassant, whose close friend he became. He accompanied him to Doctor Blanche's clinic where the writer, after a suicide attempt, was to be interned in January 1892. This warm sending testifies to the friendly relations that united the two men, especially in the last years of Maupassant's life († 1893). A very desirable copy in a beautiful decorative and colourful Pierson binding. It was executed for Henri Cazalis, whose ex-libris, in the name of Jean Lahor - one of his literary pseudonyms - is on a guard. From the Alain de Suzannet library, with ex-libris. Back very slightly faded.
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