DAUDET, Alphonse (1840-1897). Lettres à un absent. Paris 1870-71. Paris: Lemerre, 1871. 8° (180 x 117mm). Half-title, title with vignette, foliated opening initial to each chapter, head- and tail-pieces in similar style. (Small red and blue ink stains in a few bottom margins.) Dark brown morocco by Marius-Michel, later gilt supralibros, green morocco doublures, free endpapers of patterned silk, original plain glassine wrappers bound in. Provenance: purchased from Carteret, 1925.

DAUDET, Alphonse (1840-1897). Lettres à un absent. Paris 1870-71. Paris: Lemerre, 1871. 8° (180 x 117mm). Half-title, title with vignette, foliated opening initial to each chapter, head- and tail-pieces in similar style. (Small red and blue ink stains in a few bottom margins.) Dark brown morocco by Marius-Michel, later gilt supralibros, green morocco doublures, free endpapers of patterned silk, original plain glassine wrappers bound in. Provenance: purchased from Carteret, 1925.

FIRST EDITION. One of five copies on papier de Chine, according to note at front. Vicaire III, 38.