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BARRES, MAURICE. UN HOMME LIBRE. Nouvelle Edition.
Paris: Bibliothèque-Charpentier..., 1894. 18mo, (4), 297, (2)pp. Quarter crimson morocco over marbled boards, 5 raised bands, gilt lettering at spine, marbled endpapers, orig. pale yellow printed wrappers preserved, inscrpt. at half-title, mild wear at extremities, light embrowning throughout, a very good copy, attractively bound. ¶ New edition. A sceptical aesthete, impatient of discipline, Maurice Barrès (1862-1923) evinced his youthful desire for new sensations, exalting the Culte du Moi in a trilogy of 'ideologic' novels, Sous l'oeil des Barbares(1888), the present work, Un Homme Libre (1889), and Le Jardin de Bérénice( 1891). From the collection of Parisian publisher and bibliophile Edouard Champion. Talvart & Place 6B.
Offered for US$ 80.00 by: Dailey Rare Books - Book number: 2613.