MAUPASSANT, GUY DE. Bel-Ami. Half-title (paper restorations to blank edges). 12mo, contemporary 3/4 crushed olive morocco over marbled boards by Kauffmann, spine faded to brown with gilt titling; contents clean, original printed blue wrappers bound in. First edition on ordinary paper, presentation copy inscribed by the author "A mon confrere Jules Case. Bien cordialement, Guy de Maupassant" in black ink on the half-title. Also issued in a limited edition of 200 on Holland. Carteret II, p.116. Paris: Victor-Havard, 1885