MAINDRON (Maurice). Le Carquois. Autograph manuscript signed. 285 pages in-4. In-4, green half-maroquin with corners (Pagnant). Complete manuscript of this collection of tales and stories (1907): La Figure de cire (preparatory notes, first draft ms, working ms); Les Rosiers de Bégom (preparatory notes, copy by Hélène Maindron, typescript); Poumi et Chatoun (preparatory notes, first draft ms, working ms); signed autograph manuscript, cleared, of these three tales, and corrected proofs; La merveilleuse et véridique histoire du Dragon de Saint Odolan (autogr. ms. dedicated to Pierre Louÿs); La Fortune de Balandras (ms autogr.); Une excursion à Tidore (ms a.s., dated Sept. 1894, and proofs). At the head, a l.a.s. from Hélène Maindron offering this manuscript to Louis Loviot, and a portrait of Maindron dedicated to L. Loviot. From the library of Colonel Daniel Sickles (1991, no. 3339).