1900 Scarce French First Edition - Emile Nelligan, Soirees du Chateau de Ramezay.
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Original price
$350 USD
Original price
$350 USD
$350 USD
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$350 USD
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$350 USD
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Author: Émile Nelligan, etc. (École littéraire de Montréal).
Title: Les Soirées du Château de Ramezay par l'École littéraire de Montréal.
Language: Text in French.
Publisher: Montréal, Eusèbe Sénécal Cie, 1900. First edition.
Size: 8" X 5.5".
Pages: xv-402 pages.
Binding: Very good contemporary quarter leather binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown, corners worn - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing - as shown).
Estimate: (Scarce with no or few other copies available for sale worldwide).
The book: Scarce first edition of those poems by the Ecole litteraire de Montreal including the first poems published in a book by the famous Quebec French Canadian poet Emile Nelligan.
The author: Émile Nelligan (December 24, 1879 – November 18, 1941) was a francophone poet from Quebec, Canada. Nelligan is considered one of the greatest poets of French Canada. Several schools and libraries in Quebec are named after him, and Hotel Nelligan is a four-star hotel in Old Montreal at the corner of Rue St. Paul and Rue St. Sulpice.