Author: Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
Title: Journal Memoires de la Vie Litteraire and Vie Des Freres Goncourt
Description: Monaco, Les Editions de L'Imprimerie Nationale de Monaco, 1956. First edition. Paperback. A complete twenty five volume set of Journal Memoires de la Vie Litteraire and Vie des Freres Goncourt by the Goncourt brothers, being limited edition copies. This set includes twenty two volumes of Journal Memoires de la Vie Litteraire and three volumes of Vie des Freres Goncourt, being a complete twenty five volume set. In the original French. Edmond de Goncourt was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Academie Goncourt. Jules was his brother and they collaborated on the Journal des Goncourt. The brothers are known for their literary work and for their diaries, which offer an intimate view into the French literary society of the later 19th century.This set contains the Journal of Memoirs of Literary Life, the first volume is from 1851-1856, volume ii is from 1856-1858, volume iii is from 1858-1860, volume iv is from 1860-1861, volume v is from 1861-1863, volume vi is from 1863-1864, volume vii is from 1864-1867, volume viii is from 1867-1870, volume ix is from 1870-1871 and volume x is from 1871-1875. Volume xi is from 1875-1878, volume xii is from 1878-1883, volume xiii is from 1883-1885, volume xiv is from 1885-1887, volume xv is from 1887-1889, volume xvi is from 1889-1890, volume xvii is from 1890-1891, volume xviii is from 1891-1892, volume xix is from 1892-1894, volume xx is from 1894-1895. Volume xxi is from 1895-1896 and volume xxii is for 1896. All are dated 1956 and are limited edition copies, being number 179.The three volumes of Vie des Freres Goncourt precedes the Journal of Memoirs of Literary Life and is written by Andre Billy of the Goncourt Academy. With a portrait of each brother to volume one. These volumes detail the lives of these literary brothers. All three are also dated 1956 and are limited edition copies, being number 179.These volumes are lose sheets in paper wraps with glassine dust wrappers and cardboard folders. No cardboard folder to volume one.Collated, complete.  In the original paper wraps. Externally, very smart indeed. Internally, the sheets are loose to the volumes as issued. The volumes are in the original glassine wraps and cardboard folders. The glassine wraps are very smart. The folders are smart with some creasing to the spines. A mark to the spine of vol xxii. With no cardboard folder to volume i. With some bumping to the extremities of the cardboard folders. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good Indeed.

Keywords: Journal Memoires de la Vie Litteraire literature memoirs diary literature None


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