A young romantic painter, a libertine wife, a workshop with the scent of an alcove, the nicknames of secret lovers, a mysterious passion and an unfinished child's portrait.
Enter the painter's loving intimacy and discover the true name of "the Italian lady", the young Delacroix's burning secret passion.
From the love of art to the arts of Love, Eugene trades the brush for the pen and writes - anonymously - letters imprinted with spleen and ideal, in which he "plunges his soul into oblivion without remorse , and, carrying the vertigo, the failing rolls to the shores of death! »

Two years after The Flowers of Evil, Baudelaire confidentially published a "literary notice" on Gautier for which he obtained a preface letter from Victor Hugo. Under its appearance of simple panegyric of the impeccable poet, this unique literary collaboration is the place of a major ideological fight between the two immense poets who sign here their respective manifestos: that of the art for the art against that of the art for the progress. Discover, through this exceptional copy offered to Paul Meurice, close friend of the two giants, the story of this tempestuous meeting between the Albatross and the Ocean Man.

Original photograph, vintage print , representing Ernest Hemingway surrounded by a crew of seven men hoisting an imposing marlin they have just caught.
Precious autograph written from Peru and dated May 1956 signed Ernest Hemingway Adolphe Lévèque (1902-1975), bartender leader of the liner Ile-de-France : "Everyone works. Ernest Hemingway. Peru May 1956 » .

First edition on ordinary paper, illustrated with drawings by Madeleine Lemaire including 14 inset, preface by Anatole France and scores by Reynaldo Hahn.

Bound in half red shagreen, spine in five compartments, marbled endpapers, large gilt lace tooling frame on the inner covers, wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, gilt fillet on the leading edges, contemporary binding signed by Franz.