[BALZAC] alias Lord R’HOONE. *The Heiress of Birague*, a sto - Lot 7

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[BALZAC] alias Lord R’HOONE. *The Heiress of Birague*, a sto - Lot 7
[BALZAC] alias Lord R’HOONE. *The Heiress of Birague*, a story drawn from the manuscripts of Dom Rago, former prior of the Benedictines, brought to light by his two nephews, M. A. de Viellerglé[…] and Lord R’Hoone. Paris: Published by Hubert, Bookseller, 1822. 4 volumes, small 12mo, ivory half-vellum, title and volume numbers in morocco on the spine, gilt head, untrimmed, with matching slipcase and dust jacket (contemporary binding). •[IV] + XX + 187 pp.; •215 pp.; •194 pp.; •218 pp. + [I f. (blank)] RARE FIRST EDITION of one of the author’s early novels, published under the pseudonym Lord R’Hoone (an anagram of Honoré), written in collaboration with Étienne Arago and Auguste Le Poitevin de Saint-Alme (alias Viellerglé), and which Balzac disowned in 1842 in his preface to *La Comédie humaine*. From the library of Simone André Maurois, with bookplate. Stains and foxing; two small tears on the half-title page of Vol. I; handwritten annotation on the last page of Vol. III.
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