Honfleur

Autograph letter dated and signed by Félix Vallotton, 17 lines in black ink.
Fold marks inherent to postal handling.
With painters Henri Lebasque and René Piot, Félix Vallotton traveled from June 7 to 23, 1917 to Champagne and Argonne to make sketches and develop his ideas for paintings. Despite difficulties and delays of which he complains, he would manage to propose four of his canvases to the Exhibition of War Painters organized by the Army Museum: "Ruins at Souain", "The Church of Souain in Silhouette and Crater at Souain, Evening", "The Bolante Plateau, the Gruerie Wood, the Paris Kiln", "Fire on the First Boche Lines and Senegalese Soldiers at Camp Bailly"

Autograph letter signed addressed to a journalist friend at Figaro illustré, 28 lines in black ink.
Fold mark inherent to envelope insertion, a lack to upper corner of the letter without any damage to the text.
Alphonse Allais must do a favor for his friend: "Un peu de patience, mon cher Abel, un peu de patience. Sitôt rentré à Paris, ma première démarche sera pour ton parapluie que je choisirai en soir gorge-pigeon et manche d'argent." (A little patience, my dear Abel, a little patience. As soon as I return to Paris, my first errand will be for your umbrella which I will choose in pigeon-throat evening silk with a silver handle.); he therefore...

Remarkable autograph letter signed by Charles Baudelaire to Auguste Poulet-Malassis, publisher of Les Fleurs du Mal, dated 28 February 1859 and written in Honfleur. 64 lines in black ink, some passages underlined, housed in a modern black half-morocco folder.

Baudelaire appears preoccupied with the “ Sainte-Beuve/Babou affair,” one of the many controversies following the Fleurs du Mal trial, in which the writer Hippolyte Babou accused Sainte-Beuve of failing to defend Baudelaire during the proceedings.
Excerpts from this letter were quoted by Marcel Proust in his celebrated Contre Sainte-Beuve, where he lamented...

first edition for which it was not taken from large papers.
Autograph signed by Paol Queinnec in Breton.
Preface by Gwenc'hlan Le Scouëzec.
Pleasant copy.

First edition in French for which there were no large paper copies.
Preface by Henry Miller.
Autograph inscription signed and dated from Henry Miller to a friend.