Georges de PEYREBRUNE (inscribed to Jane CATULLE-MENDÈS)
Au Pied du Mât
Alphonse Lemerre|Paris 1899|11.6 x 18.6 cm|Broché
First edition, issued without any deluxe paper copies.
Occasional marginal tears to upper part of front cover, small lacks of paper to spine-ends, lack of paper to the lower left corner of the lower cover, and a small snag to lower part of lower cover.
Exceptional presentation copy from one woman writer to another, addressed by Georges de Peyrebrune to Jane Catulle Mendès: "pour mon exquise confrère / pour ma charmante amie / Madame Catulle Mendès / En souvenir / Peyrebrune".
First editions by Peyrebrune and even more so her inscribed copies are decidedly scarce: "it is still very difficult to find Peyrebrune's books nowadays" (Sophie Ménard).
€1,800