Paris

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy after only 13 deluxe copies.
Handsome and rare copy.

First edition of the French translation by Charles Baudelaire. No limited issue on luxury paper printed.
Contemporary green half shagreen, black fillets annd gilt motifs to spine, marbled paper covers, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, speckled edges.
Some foxing, mainly on the title page, small tears to edges.
The first work by Poe translated by Baudelaire, with its preface entitled Sa vie, son oeuvre, destined to establish Charles Baudelaire's name permanently alongside Poe.

First edition of the French translation by Charles Baudelaire. No limited issue on luxury paper printed.
Contemporary binding in half-black chagrin, spine with five raised bands, black fillets and gilt decorations, marbled paper covers, endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
Slight foxing, not serious, a photographic portrait of Edgar Allan Poe pasted to the title page, leaving a halo-like mark on the the title page, small tears on the edges.