Victor Hugo — Notre-Dame

Undated series printing; gift-inscribed 1914

Someone gave this book as a Christmas gift in 1914, and it has outlived everyone in that sentence.

Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame, in a T. Nelson & Sons edition bound in embossed red cloth, carries an inscription: “To Beatrice, from Maurine, Dec. 25, 1914.”

Embossed red cloth, Art Nouveau design, octavo. Worn head/tail of spine.

“Hugo, the poet on the other side of the Atlantic — I keep meaning to put him and Whitman in conversation with each other properly. A note to self.” Anthony