DAUDET (Alphonse). Le Petit chose. History of a child. Paris : J. Hetzel, 1868. - In-18, 185 x 119 : (3 ff.), 370 pp. printed cover. Bradel orange half-percaline with corners, smooth spine decorated with a gilt fleuron, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (period binding). Brivois, Essai de bibliographie des œuvres de M. Alphonse Daudet, p. 11. First edition of this famous autobiographical novel by Alphonse Daudet, of which no large paper edition was made . A first edition copy, printed by Poupart-Davyl and without any edition indication, which is very rare according to Brivois. Spine slightly darkened. Signature scratched on the top of the first cover with damage to the frame and the author's name. Stains on a few pages.