MAUPASSANT (Guy de). Le Colporteur. Paris : Librairie Paul Ollendorff, 1900. - In-18, 182 x 144 : (2 ff.), 346 pp. printed cover. Half burgundy morocco with corners, gilt filets, smooth spine decorated with two bands of havana morocco and in the center of a title piece of the same morocco in the form of a diamond overflowing on the boards, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine kept (Vve Simon). Posthumous first edition of this collection of twenty short stories composed by Guy de Maupassant between 1883 and 1893. ONE OF ONE HUNDRED NUMBERED COPIES ON HOLLAND PAPER, the third and last paper after five copies on japan and fifteen on china . A copy in a binding from the first half of the 20th century. Tarnished gold on the spine, missing tan morocco strip at the bottom of the spine, rubbing at the bottom cover. Tears on the edge of the second cover.