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  “Yes, this is the only good thing in life: love! To hold a woman you love in your arms! That is the ultimate in human happiness": The Flaubert edition of The Life Work of Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant

  MAUPASSANT, Henri René Albert Guy de.

  The Life Work of Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant. Embracing Romance. Travel. Comedy & Verse. For the first time Complete in English. With a Critical Preface by George Bourget of the French Academy and an Introduction by Robert Arnot M.A.

  London and New York: M. Walter Dunne, Publisher, 1903.

  The Flaubert edition of the complete works of Guy de Maupassant, including his well-known short stories and novels Boule de Suif, Une Vie, Bel-Ami, and Pierre et Jean. Octavo, 17 volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with git titles and botanical tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, pictorial title page and lettered tissue-guarded frontispiece in color to each volume, illustrated from original drawings by eminent French and American artists. One of 500 numbered sets signed by Robert Arnot, this is number 77. With a critical preface by George Bourget of the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot M.A. In near fine condition.

  Price: $3,500.00     Item Number: 123801

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