Stéphane MALLARMÉ

Autograph letter signed by Stéphane Mallarmé to Alidor Delzant; three pages written in black ink on a bifolium. With the original envelope.
Alidor Delzant was a lawyer, collector, and bibliophile. A friend of the Goncourt brothers, he devoted a book to them and served as Edmond’s secretary and executor.
A cordial letter in which the poet offers his condolences to his friend following his father’s death: "Vous m'avez, au hasard de nos rencontres amicales, plusieurs fois parlé de votre père, de façon à ce que je devinasse bon, haut et délicat et que cette tardive mais prompte séparation, à un âge qui donne une illusion chère de continuelle durée, soit, pour...

Complete set of the first quarter issues (11 April-12-19 July 1886) of the symbolist journal La Vogue, the most important literary review of the late nineteenth century, containing the first appearance in print of Rimbaud’s Illuminations. Issues 1-12, published weekly, were gathered under a quarterly wrapper and offered for sale in September 1886. No deluxe copies were issued for this first quarter of the journal, which had a very limited print run. Copy as published, spine restored, upper corner of the second cover lacking.

Exceptional illuminated manuscript of 35 poems by Stéphane Mallarmé, probably copied by Joris-Karl Huysmans on watermarked Hollande laid paper, after pre-first editions of the poems published in journals. Most of the poems are preceded by a separate title-page noting the source from which it is taken.

The manuscript includes a fine charcoal portrait of Mallarmé as a frontispiece by Charles Tichon, after a photographic portrait by Van Bosch. The portrait was published in the Mallarmé issue of Empreintes...

Posthumous first edition of Mallarmé's chronicles for the journal La Dernière mode. Preface by S. A. Rhodes.

3/4 morocco binding, spine with five raised bands, gilt title, decorative paper covers, marbled endpapcers and paste­downs. Bound as issued, top edge gilt, binding signed by Maylander. Spine and top of the front cover faded, and small trace of adhesive to one of the flyleaves.

A rare copy of the only first edition of Mallarmé published in the U.S. - bring­ing together chronicles from his great magazine of wit and opinion, The Latest Fashion, every page of which he wrote himself under various pseudonyms of both genders. Mallarmé wrote about the latest women's...

Complete collection in 36 issues (including three double issues) bound in three volumes - First year: 12 issues, from 8 February 1885 to 6 January 1886 - Second year: 12 issues, from 8 February 1886 to 15 January 1887 - Third year: 12 issues, from February 1887 to January 1888.
Illustrated with 4 full-page lithographs by Fantin-Latour: L'Évocation d'Erda - Odilon Redon : Brünnhilde - Jacques-Emile Blanche : Tristan et Isolde and Le pur-simple.
Three quarter brown morocco binding, smooth spine titled in gilt, marbled paper boards, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, orignal wrappers preserved, binding signed by Dupré.
Numerous contributions...

First edition, one of 90 numbered copies on laid Arches paper, the only deluxe copies (grand papier) after 10 Montval.

Beautiful copy.

Second edition, partly original, with 14 poems appearing here for the first time.

Bound in fawn half morocco with corners, spine very slightly darkened without consequence, marbled paper boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved.

Illustrated with a frontispiece by Félicien Rops.

A handsome copy, attractively bound.

Complete first edition of the first series of the most important literary journals of the late 19th century, containing the pre-publication of Rimbaud's Illuminations. No deluxe issues of this magazine printed, except for five copies of the last issue on Japon.

Bradel bindings in half brown cloth, smooth spines decorated with a central gilt flower, twice ruled at foot, gilt date at foot of first volume, red sheepskin title labels with slight...

First edition illustrated with 25 original lithographs by Raoul Dufy enhanced in pochoir by Richard, one of the 1000 numbered copies on Lafuma de Voiron vellum.
Bradel binding with half wove-style boards, black initials and date at the foot of the spine, silk and gilt effect paper boards and endpapers, wrappers preserved, top edge gilt, ex-libris glued to an endpaper bearing the signature of the work's owner as well as a date in blue ink, two lower corners pinched, contemporary binding signed Lavaux.
We attach, mounted on guards at the top of the work, Issue 296 of “Les hommes d'aujourd'hui” whose front page is illustrated with a caricature of Stéphane Mallarmé in Pan playing the...