Daudet Alphonse

1898 · réf. 67089 — 1898. Signed. DAUDET Alphonse. The Works. New York: Croscup & Sterling 1899-1900. Twenty-four volumes. Octavo publisher’s three-quarter red morocco gilt raised bands elaborately gilt-decorated spines marbled boards and endpapers top edges gilt uncut and partly unopened. $2200.“Autograph” edition number 2 of only 25 sets printed for America with 100 plates including 24 frontispieces in double-suite one of each hand-colored with a signed and inscribed carte-de-visite tipped into Volume I.The inscription on the carte-de-visite reads “merci monsieur de nos jolis livres mon jeune fils se régale. En Octobre nous causerons du lire de Spielhagen printed Alphonse Daudet. written: Salutations empresseés Alph. Daudet. printed: 3. Avenue de l’Observatoire.” “Thank you sir for our lovely books of which my young son has told me. In October we will try Frederick Spielhagen’s book” etc. Includes Daudet’s novels dramas and short stories most notably Fromont and Risler Jack The Nabob Kings in Exile and Thirty Years in Paris. An intimate friend of Zola and Flaubert Daudet was a member of the French naturalist school of fiction. His singular impressionistic style earned him great fame both in his own country and abroad. Minor expert restoration to a few spine heads. A beautiful set. hardcover