Mercure de France Novembre-Décembre 1909. Vingtième année. Tome 99

First edition.
Half green cloth binding, smooth spine, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Contributions by G. Apollinaire "La Chanson du Mal-Aimé", F. Nietzsche "Ecce Homo, Comment on devient ce que l'on est" "Pour l'interprétation de Zarathoustra", Voltaire "Lettres à Lekain", S. Zweig "Le Drame Verhaerenien", M. du Plessis "Ode à lPallas occidentale ou le Testament de Damon", R. Kipling "Une Guerre de Sahibs, conte", E. Bernard "Deavant Messine", D. Plan "Le Roman de la fille de Madame Rolland", R. de Gourmont "Epilogues", J. de Gourmont "Les Muses. Essai de physiologie poétique", A. Rouveyre "Visages" (Gabrielle Séailles, Auguste Longnon, André Gide, Colette Willy)...
Handsome internal condition.
The 'Mercure de France' was originally a French periodical, founded in the 17th century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which would evolve to become, in the 20th century, a publishing house.
Under the influence of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review took up the name 'Mercure de France' in 1890 and offered Symbolist texts, notably by Jean Moréas, Ernest Raynaud, Jules Renard, Louis Dumur. Gradually gaining recognition, this review would publish both the greatest Parnassians (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Heredia, etc.) and witness the emergence of Jarry's Pataphysics.
The publishing house was born in its wake. It notably published the first works of Gide and Claudel, Colette, Apollinaire, Georges Duhamel?