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Lot no. 46
[HUŸSMANS (Joris-Karl)]. GLATIGNY (Albert). Le Jour de l'an d'un vagabond. Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1870. In-16, bradel red percaline, spine decorated with a gilt fleuron, untrimmed (Period binding). Partly first edition, with a frontispiece etching by André Gill engraved by Cattelin. Copy from the Huysmans library, bearing an autograph note signed by Lucien Descaves in pencil on the first endpaper: Exemplaire de Huÿsmans, offert par moi à René Bizet 7bre 1923. Lucien Descaves (1861-1949), friend and executor of the will of Joris-Karl Huysmans, founded the Société J.-K. Huysmans Society in 1927 and became its first president. René Bizet (1887-1947), to whom Lucien Descaves presented this relic, was a journalist, novelist and poet who was a member of the École fantaisiste founded by Francis Carco and Tristan Derème. Works from the library of Joris-Karl Huysmans are rare.
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