Blind man's bluff

Collection "Les Cahiers Verts". 34th.

Colin-Maillard was undoubtedly the first novel written by Louis Hémon. Based on the political events recorded, it would have been written in the years 1908-1909. The novel tells the story of a young Irish worker, Mike O'Brady, living in the poor East End district of London, in search of an ideal of justice but who "like in the children's game of blind man's bluff, pushed by the ironic hand of destiny, searches, stumbles, turns blindly." The manuscript of the novel, found among 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 certainty," 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 collected excellent reviews. Published in 1924, it was for example described as "the most beautiful book of the year" by the French newspaper L'ami du clergé.

LIMITED ORIGINAL EDITION of 6740 numbered copies. This is one of 40 numbered copies on light green paper.