Le Hachych

by Claude Francois Lallemand

$5,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Paris: Librairie de Paulin, 1843. First edition. Signed by Claude Francois Lallemand on the title page, inscribed with a flourish on his signature that zig-zags across the word Hachych, which alludes to the closing lines of the novel: “Il n’existe, d’ailleurs, d’autre trace de signature qu’un énorme zigzag allant jusqu’au bas de la page, et annoncant selon toute apparence,

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