Between the Covers

Hardcover. Out-of-series unsigned and unnumbered Edition de luxe with a beautiful decorative folded sheet tipped into Volume I stating "Of the Editor's Autograph Edition Of The Works Of Guy de Maupassant There have been printed [blank] Sets of which this is Number [blank], Attest [blank] Managing Editor." Preface by Paul Bourget. Introduction by Robert Arnot. Complete in a seventeen volume set. Illustrated from original drawings by eminent French and American artists. Printed for Subscribers only. Illuminated title page in all volumes. Blue cloth with printed spine label, topedges gilt. Some pages unopened, cloth modestly rubbed and soiled with spine labels age-toned, else a very good or better set. A unique set with some of the drawings looks to have been hand-colored with some being Signed and dated "'04" by an array of different artists neatly penciled underneath the engravings in volumes I, II, IV, V, IX, XI, XIII, XVI. A lovely set.

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