MANUSCRIT. - Lot 6

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MANUSCRIT. - Lot 6
MANUSCRIT. MAUPASSANT, A. & S. de. Le Neveu des demoiselles Jousselin. signed and dated July 19, 1903, at St Thibault des Vignes (last ff.). Large format in-4 (21 x 31.5 cm), 297 handwritten and 2 blank blank (some pages cut off), sewn into 13 ruled quires with margins left margins. Written by 4 hands, it bears 2 different handwritings, in brown ink on the recto of each ff. in brown ink on the recto of each folio, in a green half-cover jacket with cardboard boards. Approx. 35 lines of text per page. Chapter XXIX, in Roman capitals, title page with name and address "98 boulevard Rochechouart, Paris". Apparently intended for a publisher, and unpublished according to our research. The name Maupassant is not that of the famous writer. With penciled-out passages, strikethroughs, pasted-on papers to correct the text, sometimes on the verso to fill the gap in the removed text. removed. Cut pages and glued tabs. Some modern handwritten annotations partially erased on the first front cover. The title page is marked "à la page de titre". Ex libris stamp "Henry Le Besnerais". Occasional "X à la ligne" annotations in pencil in the margins. Some traces of oxidized glue and ink. Modern literature. Novel.
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