Pecheur D'islande

Paris: Calmann Levy, 1895. Octavo in red half-calf and marbled paper; gilt to spine; 344 pages; 18 cm Ex-library with usual institutional markings (bookplate, card pocket; a few stamps) but only external marking is small set of call letters in white to front board (no markings to spine); else tight clean and very good+ this. Contemrporary owner signature and date to front free endpaper. . Hardcover.

In French. Handsomely bound. A novel of life among the Breton fisherfolk, called Pacheur d'Islande (translated as: An Iceland Fisherman), which Edmund Gosse characterized as "the most popular and finest of all his writings."