Paris

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

Reprint of the so-called Keepsake edition published by Renduel in 1836. Furne had bought out the Renduel bookshop and quickly exploited its stock. The illustration contains a portrait of Victor Hugo as frontispiece, 2 title vignettes (these illustrations are new) and 11 steel engravings printed on strong paper by Johannot, Boulanger, Raffet, Rogier & Rouargue engraved by Finden, Staines... It is well printed in airy typography with large margins, and close to the original published in 1831. These two volumes that could be purchased separately formed the head of collection of the new collected edition at Furne, which explains the presence of Victor Hugo's portrait. Half-title before the...

Collected edition, one of the numbered copies, the only issue.
Publisher's Bradel binding in full white cloth, smooth spine, front cover decorated with a geometric design.
Handsome 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.

First edition, one of 100 numbered deluxe copies, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy presented unbound in double chemise and cream white slipcase.

Autograph letter signed by Reynaldo Hahn addressed to Madame Serge André and written on a blue paper letter-card in blue ink. Central fold inherent to the mailing.
Dominique André is a poetess, novelist and playwright. She notably published under the pseudonym Claude Isambert.
Charming letter of thanks: "Merci, chère amie, de m'avoir envoyé ce bouquet de fleurs épineuses et embaumées de tant d'arômes divers." ["Thank you, dear friend, for having sent me this bouquet of thorny flowers perfumed with so many diverse aromas."] The composer also mentions the collection of poems Cassandre that his friend published the same year by éditions du...

First edition.
Handsome copy.
Dated autograph inscription signed by an official of the association of friends of Fernand de Brinon to Alfred Fabre-Luce: "... ce dernier effort de l'auteur qui n'est plus pour se faire entendre vivant." ["... this final effort of the author who is no more to make himself heard while living."]

Stéréotype d'Hernan, Paris 1807, 8° (13,5x21,5cm), CLXXII, 297pp. and 488pp. and 486pp. and 392pp. and V, 310pp., 5 green morocco volumes.
Wonderful copy with 89 illustrations added from several Racine illustrated editions: a portrait by Santerre, 12 engravings after Gravelot (most of them before lettering, from the 1768 edition of Louis Cellot), a second portrait by Saint-Aubin, a portrait of Boileau, 50 engravings, mostly after Robert and Stéphane-Barthélémy Garnier (some before lettering, Edition Le Nomant 1808) and a set of illustrations by Barbier l'Aîné; 12 engravings by Moreau Le Jeune (Edition Crapelet 1811) and 12 engravings after Desenne by Simonnet (Edition Didot...

First edition, one of 3000 copies on alfa vellum, the only deluxe copies after 120 on pur fil.
Spine and boards yellowed, handsome interior condition.

First edition printed at “Cercle nouveau du livre” before the ‘tirage de luxe' with Julliard several months later, one of the numbered copies, only print.
First name of a previous owner of the work discreetly written in blue ballpoint pen at the top of the title page.
A beautiful copy.
Publisher's binding in full green cloth, title and author's name stamped in gilt on the first board.