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MALOT, Hector (1830-1907)

Lot 96
05.07.2023 13:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 96 | MALOT, Hector (1830-1907)
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MALOT, Hector (1830-1907)
Sans famille. Paris : E. Dentu, 1878.
Rarissime édition originale, en demi-reliure monogrammée de l'époque. Sans famille conte les pérégrinations et les rencontres de Rémi, enfant abandonné, vendu par ses parents adoptifs au musicien ambulant Vitalis, à l'âge de huit ans. Rémi se met alors en quête de sa mère : il parcourera toute la France et traversera la Manche pour la retrouver.
Grand roman-feuilleton autant que récit initiatique, Sans famille paraît d'abord dans Le Siècle, avant que l'éditeur Édouard Dentu ne rachète les droits pour publier l'édition originale.
Cet ouvrage, sans nul doute le plus célèbre d'Hector Malot, a connu une postérité inattendue et qui ne se dément pas, avec plus d'une demi-douzaine d'adaptations cinématographiques et autant en séries télévisées. Un long-métrage, et, pour les lecteurs et spectateurs français surtout, une série d'animation japonaise (Ie Naki Ko) en 1977, sont parmi les plus célèbres.

L'édition originale du roman semble d'une rareté extraordinaire :
- Elle n'est pas mentionnée par les bibliographies de référence : absente de Clouzot ; Vicaire (V, col. 482) ne mentionne que la première édition illustrée (1880).
- Elle est absente du CCFR.
- La BnF ne conserve que la troisième édition (1879). Pas d'exemplaires en France.
- Worldcat ne recense que deux exemplaires de cette édition en institution : La Haye, Koninklijke Bibliotheek ; cote : Magazijn 4-1211 et Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen.
- Aucun exemplaire dans les bases de données de ventes aux enchères.

Hector Malot. Catalogue d'exposition, Rouen, Bibliothèque Municipale, 1980, pp. 21-26.

2 vol. in-8 (174 x 111 mm). 8 pp. de catalogue de l'éditeur en fin de t. I et 4 pp. de partition avant la table du t. II. Quelques rousseurs éparses et mouillures marginales. Demi-chagrin brun de l'époque, dos à nerfs, lettre dorée, initiales "B.S." sur le caisson de queue, plats de percaline violette.

The extremely scarce first edition of Hector Malot's Sans Famille, a novel famously adapted dozen of times as movies and TV series, including a 1977-1978 Japanese anime series. No copies are seemingly recorded at auction, and only 2 copies are located in institutional holdings.

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