GUICHES Gustave. Provincial customs. L'Ennemi. Paris, Librairie Moderne, 1887; in-8, [8]-340 pp, red bradel cloth, black morocco title-piece, cover (Pierson). First edition. Second book by a 27-year-old novelist with close ties to Bloy and Huysmans. One of the rare copies on Hollande, this one given to Edmond de Goncourt with an autograph signed letter from the author: A Monsieur Edmond de Goncourt hommage de ma très profonde et très respectueuse admiration. The volume is also enriched with an autograph page of the original manuscript given by the author, bound at the head - Bookplate of the Goncourt brothers engraved by Jules de Goncourt after Gavarni, with a handwritten note by Edmond de Goncourt in mauve ink. Cat. Goncourt, 1897, n°399