Poetry

First edition, one of 500 copies, no grand papier (deluxe issue) copies.
Half morocco binding, spine with five raised bands, marbled paper boards framed in gilt, mould made flyleaves and pastedowns, original wrapper covers preserved, binding signed by Thomas Boichot.
Handsome copy signed and inscribed by Paul Verlaine to Émile Le Brun to whom Verlaine dedicated one of his poems (Dédicaces, sonnet XVI). 
This copy includes manuscript corrections by Paul Verlaine himself and an exceptional manuscript poem on page 123.
A nice copy, elegantly bound, containing the first printing of the famous Art poétique [Art Poetics], Verlaine's response to Boileau's Art Poétique.

First edition.
Fifth complete year.
Full olive green cloth binding, smooth spine lightly browned decorated with blind fillets, gilt title and date, corners very lightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Review decorated with black and white illustrations, vignettes and tailpieces.
Principal contributors: Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Renée Vivien, Léon Bocquet, Paul Fort, René Ghil, Gustave Kahn, Albert Mockel, Charles Morice, Léon de Rosny, Albert Samain, Emile Verhaeren, Louis Pergaud, among others.
The final issue, number 50, is devoted to a questionnaire containing 102 responses from poets and writers to the following questions:
If to complete the Goncourt Academy and following its model, a well-endowed man were to establish an independent academy of poets:
1-Who would be, in your opinion, the ten new immortals to elect? (Women are admitted as well as French poets from Belgium.)
2-To which volume of verse published this year would you award the prize?
Handsome copy.