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First edition, with no deluxe paper copies issued.
A pleasant copy.
Amusing signed autograph inscription by San Antonio to a friend : « Pour Jean, Michel, cette littérature à mords-moi la France. En toute sympathie. San Antonio. 1980 »
Third edition, expanded with 25 new poems. One of the very few deluxe copies on hollande paper, only deluxe issue. In its original wrappers, as issued, skilfull restorations to spine and first cover, some letters of the spine title restored. Some foxing to the first few leaves.
With a steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by Nargeot and a lengthy introduction by the poet Théophile Gautier along with an addenda selected by Baudelaire containing articles and letters from 1857 by Barbey d'Aurevilly, Dulamon, Sainte-Beuve, Charles Asselineau, Custine, Edouard Thierry and Émile Deschamps.
Like all first issue copies, the cover is dated 1869.
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First edition of Baudelaire's Petits poëmes en prose later published by the better-known title Le Spleen de Paris - Petits poëmes en prose. One of the very rare copies printed on hollande, only deluxe issue (‘grands papiers').
With a preface to the collection by the author, derived from a letter to Arsène Houssaye, in which he articulates his ambitions for the prose poems. The poems are followed in this volume by the second edition of Paradis Artificiels.
This edition was used as the fourth volume of Baudelaire's complete works, as stated “œuvres complètes” on the cover. It was also sold s
