*HERVIEU (Paul). The Exorcised. Notes on the society. Paris : Alphonse Lemerre, 1891. - In-18, 186 x 115 : (4 ff. first blank), 239 pp., (2 ff.), printed cover. Jansenist brown morocco, spine ribbed, dark green morocco lining with gilt fillet, brocaded silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges, cover preserved (Marius Michel). First edition of this very beautiful and short novel dedicated to Octave Mirbeau, whose heroine, a young unhappily married woman, feels as if possessed by a lover she does not love. EDMOND DE GONCOURT (1822-1896), one of the 12 on Hollande paper, enriched with this dispatch from the author on the false title : A Monsieur Edmond de Goncourt - // Hommage d'admiration et de // respectueux dévouement - // Paul HervieuThere is also a note at the head of the book, signed by Goncourt, on a separate sheet of paper, specifying that this is the original edition on Hollande paper . This copy appears in the catalog of the sale of the Goncourt's library (1897, n° 438), but in a binding by Pierson. It has been rebound in full morocco lined by Marius Michel, on the initiative of René Descamp-Scrive to whom the work later belonged. Spine faded. Provenance : Edmond de Goncourt, with a letter from the author and an autograph note. - René Descamps-Scrive, with bookplate (III, 1925, n° 498).