[Item #29725] Quelques Touchants Appels du Génie en Détresse. Charles BAUDELAIRE, Charles Nodier, Paul Verlaine.

Quelques Touchants Appels du Génie en Détresse

[Paris: Maurice Devries, n.d., ca. 1920?]. First Edition. Slim folio (31.75cm.); original string-bound simulated limp pig over cloth; [4]pp. & 9 facsimile documents (including a few bifolia) mounted to stiff stock printed in green and ruled in gilt. Several facsimiles separated but present with tiny pieces of perished tape. Still, About Very Good overall. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label inside upper wrapper. Collection of autograph letters by various noted French figures requesting financial aid. Includes pieces by Baudelaire, Verlaine, Nodier, Daumier, Lamartine, and Louis Pasteur. OCLC locates 2 copies in North America as of May, 2016, at Stanford and Vanderbilt.

Price: $50.00

Go Back