Paul LÉAUTAUD, Humphrey HARE / Child of Montmartre Signed 1st Edition

Description: [Autobiographical Novel] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, with AUTOGRAPH LETTER. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp. With an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by the author in black ink on headed note paper, dated 9th April 1931, with a type-written transcription of the impenetrable hand. With the original envelope, tipped onto flyleaf. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine.

With the dust-jacket illustrated by Charles Mozley, priced at 15s. Plain bookplate of Alan Anderson to front pastedown. A review of the book clipped from the Times Literary Supplement loose to preliminaries.

Edges toned, with a tobacco scent. Jacket a little rubbed to edges, with heavy browning to spine. All three parts of Leautaud's portrait of his youth in Paris,'Le Petit Ami;''In Memoriam;' and'Amours,' first published in 1902, 1905 and 1906 respectively, and translated into English here for the first time.

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