(BALCH, Elizabeth) An Author's Love. Being the Unpublished Letters of Prosper Mérimée's 'Inconnue'. 2 vols. Macmillan & Co. 1889
Half titles; errata slip & 2pp ads in vol. I. Original dark blue-green smooth cloth, spines lettered in gilt; small mark on front board vol. II, otherwise v.g.
¶Not in Sadleir. Wolff 208. The supposed replies to Mérimée's Letters. Wolff comments: 'A curious effort', and this copy is nicely inscribed on the leading free endpaper vol. I: 'Mrs. F. Gilden(?) not from the Author, but with the sincere love of her old friend E. Balch, Witton Park September 1889'.
Stock #35135
£200
46, Great Russell Street - (opp. British Museum) - Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3PA
