Huysmans (Joris-Karl) Les Foules de Lourdes, first edition, number 7 of 10 copies on 'papier du Japon', title and colophon f. in red and black, head- and tail-pieces and initials in red, some foxing at beginning and end, occasional spotting, original printed wrappers bound in, contemporary half morocco, gilt, 8vo, Paris, P.-V. Stock, 1906. ⁂ A tale set in Lourdes, in which Huysmans looks at the themes of hope and charity through the crowds of the sick that gather there in the hope of a miraculous cure, and the hysteria that this generates.
Huysmans (Joris-Karl) Les Foules de Lourdes, first edition, number 7 of 10 copies on 'papier du Japon', title and colophon f. in red and black, head- and tail-pieces and initials in red, some foxing at beginning and end, occasional spotting, original printed wrappers bound in, contemporary half morocco, gilt, 8vo, Paris, P.-V. Stock, 1906. ⁂ A tale set in Lourdes, in which Huysmans looks at the themes of hope and charity through the crowds of the sick that gather there in the hope of a miraculous cure, and the hysteria that this generates.
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