Georges COURTELINE.

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Georges COURTELINE.
The 8:47 Train. No place or date [1888]. Autograph manuscript in-8 of (1) title page and 120 pages numbered 1-119, 22bis and 78bis [there is no page 99]: red jansenist morocco, spine ribbed, gilt fillets on the edges, decorated inner borders, red silk lining and endpapers (David). Autograph manuscript signed, complete, of Georges Courteline's famous novel which humorously recreates barracks life. The manuscript bears numerous corrections. Autograph letter signed on the first page: To my dear and precious friend H. Roche, to satisfy in the most humble proportions his bibliophilic instincts, I offer this unique manuscript copy of the Train de 8h.47. G. Courteline Head of Courteline's office at the Ministry of Culture, H. Roche subsequently received all of the author's works with dedications. Attached is a letter from Léopold Carteret to Alain de Suzannet announcing the acquisition of the manuscript; he has attached an extract from Paris Soir (4 April 1930) mentioning this sale. He notes at the end: "The Lang sale manuscript was written much later. Indeed, in the catalogue of Georges-Emmanuel Lang's sale (I, 1925, No. 245) appeared a manuscript of Le Train de 8h47 bearing an autograph note signed by Courteline announcing the manuscript "unique, entirely in my hand, according to which was dictated by me to the person who served as my secretary, the copy which the printing house used for the composition of the book." Facetious Courteline? Certainly. But the present manuscript seems, indeed, older. Provenance: anonymous sale of April 1930.- Léopold Carteret.- Alain de Suzannet, with ex-libris (1934, no. 38).- Auguste Lambiotte (III, no. 22).
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