HUYSMANS (Joris-Karl). The Oblate. Paris : P.-V. Stock, 1903. - In-18, 180 x 117 : (3 ff.), 448 pp., (1 f.), printed cover. Dark green half-chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated, untrimmed, first cover preserved (period binding). First edition. Copy on edition paper, enriched with an autograph sending signed by the author on the false title, addressed to the poet and playwright Georges Vanor (1865-1906): To Georges Vanor // Cordially // JKHuysmansGood copy in contemporary binding. Spine faded. Bends and important tears but not missing on four leaves (pp. 223-230). Only the first of the two covers has been preserved by the binder. Without the publisher's catalog at the end.