Colin-Maillard

Colin-Maillard was probably the first novel written by Louis Hémon. According to the political events noted, it was written in the years 1908-1909. The novel tells the story of a young Irish worker, Mike O'Brady, living in London's poor East End neighbourhood, in search of an ideal of justice but "like in the play of a Colin-Maillard child pushed by the ironic hand of fate, seeking, stumbling, turning blindly". The manuscript of the novel found in Louis Hémon's papers allowed it to be published. "It is undoubtedly a first draft, written in pencil, but executed from the first to the last line with remarkable safety," explains Daniel Halévy in his preface. Sent eight days before its publication to two hundred people "who seemed to him the most qualified", the publisher Bernard Grasset received excellent reviews. Published in 1924, it is described by the French newspaper L'ami du clergé as the "most beautiful book of the year".

LIMITED ORIGINAL EDITION: 40 numbered copies on light green paper. This one is one of those numbered copies.