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 fashions and sang the praises of the great couturiers of the time, notably Emile Pingat and Charles-Frédéric Worth, "organizer of the sublime and daily celebration of Paris".