BLOY (Léon). Set of 10 books: - LE RÉVÉLATEUR DU GLOBE. CHRISTOPHE COLOMB AND HIS FUTURE BEATIFICATION. Preface by J. Barbey d'Aurevilly. Paris: A. Sauton, 1884. - In-8, red half-maroquin with corners, ribbed spine, gilt head, untrimmed, front cover preserved (contemporary binding). First edition of Léon Bloy's first published book, prefaced by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly. Not printed on large paper. Cracking at the hinge of the first cover, some rubbing and spotting. Soiling to several leaves. - PROPOS D'UN ENTREPRENEUR DE DÉMOLITIONS. Paris: Tresse, 1884. - In-18, red half-maroquin with corners, ribbed spine, gilt head, untrimmed (contemporary binding). First edition. Copy complete with the last 8 pages, which reproduce, with separate pagination, Barbey d'Aurevilly's preface published in his first work entitled "Le Révélateur du globe". Attached is a handwritten copy of an article by Jean Berthold Mann from "La Vie intellectuelle", January 1948. Some rubbing to spine. Some foxing. - LÉON BLOY DEVANT LES COCHONS SUIVI DE LAMENTATION DE L'ÉPÉE. Paris: Chamuel, 1894. - In-18, red half-maroquin with corners, ribbed spine, gilt head, untrimmed (contemporary binding). First edition. Copy on publisher's paper. Handwritten corrections (Léon Bloy?) on pages 9 and 50. Headcap torn off. Leaves browned and brittle, some entirely or partly unbound. Tears at edges. - LA FEMME PAUVRE. Épisode contemporain. Paris: Mercure de France, 1897. - In-18, red half-maroquin with corners, ribbed spine, gilt head, untrimmed, front cover preserved (contemporary binding). First edition. Copy on publisher's paper, with the words "Second Edition" on the title. Rubbing and scuffing to binding. - LES DERNIÈRES COLONNES DE L'ÉGLISE. Coppée, le révérend père Judas, Brunetière, Huysmans, Bourget, etc. Le Dernier poète catholique. Paris: Mercure de France, 1903. - In-12, red half-maroquin with corners, ribbed spine, gilt head, untrimmed, front cover preserved (contemporary binding). First edition. Copy on publisher's paper. Used rubbing. - MON JOURNAL. A follow-up to Mendiant Ingrat. 1896-1900. Seventeen months in Denmark. Paris: Mercure de France, 1904. - In-12, red half-maroquin with corners, ribbed spine, gilt head, untrimmed, front cover preserved (period binding). First edition. Copy on publisher's paper, enriched with a letter from the author to Louis Denise: "à Louis Denise // in lamentationem // & lectum // Toujours // Léon Bloy." Rubbing to spine, tear to head cover. Leaves browned and brittle, false title leaf unbound. - QUATRE ANS DE CAPTIVITÉ À COCHON-SUR-MARNE (to follow Le Mendiant ingrat and Mon Journal). 1900-1904. Paris: Mercure de France, 1905. - In-12, red half-maroquin with corners, ribbed spine, gilt head, untrimmed, front cover preserved (contemporary binding). First edition with two portraits of the author out of text and a facsimile of an autograph. Copy on publisher's paper. Rubbing and scuffing to binding. - LA RÉSURRECTION DE VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM with a reproduction of the monument by Frédéric Brou. Paris: Librairie E. Lecampion, 1906. - In-8, red half-maroquin with corners, ribbed spine, gilt head, untrimmed (contemporary binding). First edition. One of 1000 copies on laid paper, and not on wove paper as mentioned in the justification. A good copy. - L'INVENDABLE. A follow-up to Mendiant Ingrat, Mon Journal and Quatre Ans de Captivité à Cochons-sur-Marne. 1904-1907. Paris: Mercure de France, 1909. - In-12, red half-maroquin with corners, ribbed spine, gilt head, untrimmed, front cover preserved (contemporary binding). First edition illustrated with two photographic views of the Villiers de L'Isle-Adam monument by Frédéric Brou. Copy on publisher's paper. Some wear. Leaves browned, a few tears at the edges. - SUR LA TOMBE DE HUYSMANS. Paris: Collection des Curiosités Littéraires, [1913]. -In-12, red half-maroquin with corners, ribbed spine, gilt head, untrimmed, front cover preserved (contemporary binding). First edition. One of 495 numbered copies on laid paper.