Alain-Fournier // Le Grand Meaulnes + Miracles

Alain-Fournier only published two books, gathered here in a half-basane (sheepskin) binding with corners:

 "Le Grand Meaulnes" - Paris, Emile-Paul Frères, 1913

 In French.

First edition of the novel dated December 2013 (the very first prints date from September), with the characteristic presence of the typo on page 133 ("Chapter I" instead of "Chapter II") and the price of 3f50 on the back of the book (preserved, as well as the cover).

The publisher divided the issue of the book into slices of a few hundred copies each, the author not yet being very well known, which he arbitrarily qualified as editions.

Our copy, which bears the number 3 245, according to a practice followed by Emile-Paul from what he calls the "third edition", thus bears the fictitious mention (?) of eighth edition.

Rare volume, in good condition.

« Miracles » - Introduction de Jacques Rivière, Paris, Gallimard, 1924.

Our copy, although bearing the date of March 13, 1924 which is indeed that of the original print, bears the fictitious mention of "seventh edition".

Uncommon volume, in good condition despite some scattered foxing and a cover not totally clean (see photo).

Alain-Fournier is often remembered only by his first work, published in September 1913, "Le Grand Meaulnes".

Indeed, the author was to die in the war a year later, in September 2014, merely a month after his mobilization.

"Miracles" is in fact a posthumous publication (1924) by Gallimard.

It is a collection of poems and short stories previously published in various reviews.