Quelques Touchants Appels du Génie en Détresse
by [BAUDELAIRE, Charles, Paul Verlaine, Charles Nodier, and others]
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- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
[Paris: Maurice Devries, n.d., ca. 1920?]. First Edition. Slim folio (31.75cm.); original string-bound simulated limp pig over cloth; [4]pp. & 9 facsimile documents (including a few bifolia) mounted to stiff stock printed in green and ruled in gilt. Several facsimiles separated but present with tiny pieces of perished tape. Still, About Very Good overall. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label inside upper wrapper. Collection of autograph letters by various noted French figures requesting financial aid. Includes pieces by Baudelaire, Verlaine, Nodier, Daumier, Lamartine, and Louis Pasteur. OCLC locates 2 copies in North America as of May, 2016, at Stanford and Vanderbilt.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29725
- Title
- Quelques Touchants Appels du Génie en Détresse
- Author
- [BAUDELAIRE, Charles, Paul Verlaine, Charles Nodier, and others]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Maurice Devries
- Place of Publication
- [Paris
- Date Published
- n.d., ca. 1920?]
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature Before 1900; France;
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Glossary
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- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...