Lot no. 173
HUYSMANS. L'OBLAT. Paris, Stock 1903. Large volume in-12, half tobacco morocco with corners, spine decorated in cold, t. gilt, cover and spine (Lucie Weill). FIRST EDITION. One of 80 copies on Hollande, specially printed for his friend Léon Lectaire and bearing a BEAUTIFUL AUTOGRAPHIC ENVOILED signed by Huysmans. It is further enriched by a 4-PAGE SIGNED AUTOGRAPH LETTER addressed to an Oblate sister in Paris containing the announcement of his departure for Strasbourg... he is to see several paintings of primitives, news of various cloisters, congregations... A very fine copy, finely bound by Lucie Weill, a bookseller and bookbinder specialising in fine bibliophile copies, for which she was responsible for the binding. (Fétis, 177).
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