BOOK, Inscribed by Victor Hugo to a close friend

Victor Hugo:

Actes et paroles 1870 - 1871 - 1872.

Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1872. 17,2 x 11 cms. [4] + 220 pages.

First edition. Bound with front wrapper (a little creased) in slightly
later half morocco with only insignificant surface wear.

Inscribed by the author on half-title: ”A mon chere et charmant poëte
d’Hervilly / Victor Hugo”.

Ernest d’Hervilly (1839-1911) was a prolific French journalist and
writer in various genres and media. Although he was a friend of Victor
Hugo (since 1870) and Paul Verlaine, acquainted with most of the
participants in the fin-de-siècle Decandent Movement, almost all of his
own fiction and work for the theater was in a cheerfully humorous vein.

Provenance: Bertha Amalia Kleman, (1836-1926, daughter of Swedish
Publicist Lars Johan Hierta); by descent to her daughter Bertha
Nordenson (1857-1928).

See description.