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Nouvelle Orleans 1879, Propagateur Catholique. Buff covers, slightly dusty, minor cover soil, UNCUT copy, 138p.,contents bright & clean, an UNUSED example, 10.8 x 16 cm., lower edge uncut. * * EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FIRST & ONLY EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . LAFCADIO HEARN'S FIRST PUBLISHED WRITING IN BOOK FORM . . . FIRST & ONLY SMALL EDITION . . . WRITTEN IN FRENCH . * An exceptionally RARE example of Hearn's FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK without his name on the title page, seldom found. Written in French by Hearn, with table [of contents] & appendix at the back. . Please see Perkins where he illustrates this as the first book in his historic Hearn bibliography, see below for exact details. . *** CONDITION: Generic description: Each example is bound in the original publisher's colored paper wrappers, all firm and solid. . Each copy has the printer's spelling error on the title page publisher's name reads incorrectly: "Propagatetr," while the cover title is correct reading: "Propagateur." This applies to all copies, unless otherwise so noted. See Perkins for more on this. . Copies vary in condition and state, please carefully read each copy description for exact details. . Exact copy notes: . Copy 1: A pristine, uncut example, clean & solid. . Contained in a custom folding case with half-Moroccan leather and folding case insert. This is an orange hand-tooled slipcase, with raised bands, gold-stamped rule line, six boxed spine compartments, in the finest of condition, the orange buckram 3-part folding matched cloth covered case has white velvet liner. Pink wrappers, uncut. . Copy 2: In the same condition, pink wrappers, uncut. Contained in a brown cloth box with a folding case insert, with worn leather pull-out. . Copy 3: Very clean and bright example, uncut. . *** Color photos are posted to our website . *** REFERENCE: . P.D. and Ione Perkins: LFCADIO HEARN: A Bibliography of His Writings, p.1, he illustrates and describes this item in great detail. . Although he cites "fore edge trimmed, top and lower edges cut," we have examples that differ slightly. The pink example with top and fore edge trimmed, bottom edge uncut, rough. . His illustrated example shows a double-rule outside the title, one of ours has an elaborate set of posts with decorations at top and bottom, per the photos posted to our website. . He cites examples in colors: pink, blue, tan & green. We have had pink, blue and yellow examples. . With mis-spelled publisher on title page: correct is PropagateUr, title page shows: PropagateTr v.s. the cover. . Per Perkins there is a mis-spelling on the front cover: Contains Reflexions Preliminaires, appendice: Pensees et Impressions de Marie-Atala Les Deux Premiers Critiques de la Nouvella Atala. * Edward LaRocque Tinker.: LAFCADIO HEARN'S AMERICAN DAYS, pp.143-146. * Dejan "Mandeville an Historical Compendium," p.47 . *. Seller Inventory # 86000303
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Title: LA NOUVELLE ATALA: Ou La Fille D'Esprit ...
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