HÉMON (Louis).

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HÉMON (Louis).
Maria Chapdelaine. An account of French Canada. Paris [Montreal], Delagrave, n.d. [1916]. In-12, dark green morocco, jansenist, lined edge to edge with morocco of the same color, green moire endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine, half morocco band folder and slipcase (P.-L. Martin). Rare first edition, printed in Quebec. Illustrations by the Quebec painter Suzor-Côté. This edition was printed in 1500 copies, of which a special edition of 500 was made for France on behalf of the Delagrave bookstore; Jacques Michon, Histoire de l'édition littéraire au Québec (t. I, 1999, p. 64), indicates that the total edition was 1200 of which 300 were for France. A very large number of the copies of the special edition would have disappeared in a shipwreck and the others, which remained overseas, were sold in Canada at the price of one dollar (mention printed on the back cover) and bear on the title, like ours, the stamp of the Garneau bookstore in Quebec. It was not until 1921 that the novel was finally published in France, by Grasset. Beautiful copy in an impeccable binding by Pierre-Lucien Martin. Spine of the folder faded.
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