Guy de Maupassant

Modern Ghosts

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. First edition. Navy cloth with gilt lettering and silver designs, fore- and bottom edges uncut. xv, [xviii], 225, [3] pp. 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in. Half-title, title in red. Very good; slight loss at head and tail of spine, scar to spine, old ownership inscription to front free-endpaper. Item #7600

“These little tales, like instant photographs, bring us nearer to the life of other lands, and apprise us that, in an unexpected sense, we are all of one blood—a blood which is chilled by an influence that we cannot comprehend, and at a contact of which we are conscious by an apprehension beyond that of the senses.”.

Price: $100.00