DEUX CONTES À LA PLUME D'OIE

by Joseph Hémard, Maurice Renard

$500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

Paris: Editions G. Crès & Cie, 1923. Limited first edition thus, illustrated by Hémard with hand-coloring in pochoir, of these two fantastical, proto-science fiction short stories. Fine. Item #55703 Renard was one of the best-known writers of the merveilleux scientifique, a turn-of-the-century science fiction movement in France that was heavily influenced by Poe, Verne, and others. This fine press production

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