LOTI (Pierre). - Lot 123

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LOTI (Pierre). - Lot 123
LOTI (Pierre). Aziyadé. Stamboul, 1876-1877. Extract from the notes and letters of a lieutenant of the English navy who entered the service of Turkey on May 10, 1876 and was killed under the walls of Kars on October 27, 1877. Paris : Calmann Lévy, 1879 . - In-18, 181 x 116 : (2 ff.), 312 pp., 36 pp. of catalog, illustrated cover. Dark blue half-maroquin with corners, gilt filets, spine decorated with nerves, gilt head, untrimmed, cover preserved, case (Michon). Rare first edition of Pierre Loti's first novel, published anonymously. No copies were printed on large paper. Copy with the white cover printed in mauve, illustrated with a portrait of a young Turkish woman in three quarters in an oval. According to Talvart and Place: "The copies with the mauve printed cover were printed in small numbers and are extremely rare" (XII, p. 255). A fine copy in a first half of the 20th century binding by Michon, complete with the Calmann Lévy catalog bound at the end. Cover washed. Light foxing to the false title and discreet restoration to one leaf (pp. 111-112). Provenance: Georges Degryse, with bookplate.
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