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495 - Free verse. In-4° (slight title discharge).
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Estimate €200 - €300

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Free verse. In-4° (slight title discharge). - Posthumous first edition (except for "Les fiancés de treize ans", published in a review in 1922: cf. Note), published clandestinely by René Bonnel from manuscripts held by Beatrix Hastings, but denounced by Cocteau as a forgery and which Pia undoubtedly worked on without breathing a word. Edition of 125 copies on Hollande Van Gelder laid paper, the only paper (no. 46). - Pia ref. 1499. - Dutel 2590 - Nordmann II:448. - Joint, 3 glossy collections in publisher's covers: 1. [Haraucourt, Edmond (pseud.)] Le sire de Chambley - La légende des sexes. Poèmes hystériques. 1882. Jouxte la copie imprimée à Bruxelles pour l'auteur. Paris, Au clos Bruneau, à l'enseigne de la Gargouille, 1921. In-8° agenda (a few stains and slight tears on the 1st and last pages). Reissue of these erotic poems (orig.: 1882), illustrated with a frontispiece reproducing in heliogravure a composition by Félicien Rops depicting a flute-player with goat's legs. 1/300 (of 303 copies) on Arches laid paper (no. 132), without the suite by Martin Van Maele (not found in all copies). ref. Dutel 1839. - Pia 768 (without the suite). - 2 Malherbe - Poésies galantes et autres de monsieur de Malherbe. "Printed in thirty copies at the expense of an amateur" [E. Du Perron, c. 1928]. In-12. Unlisted clandestine edition, with a confidential print run of 30 copies (no. 10). - 3. le panier galant. By a company of prudish poets. Aux dépens d'un amateur (impr. Paris, L. Cario), 1954. In-12. Edition decorated with a bistre frontispiece signed "P.B." and a cover vignette. 1/170 (of 190 copies) on Vidalon vellum (no. 65). (4 vols.)

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495 - Free verse. In-4° (slight title discharge). See original version (French)

495 - Free verse. In-4° (slight title discharge).
See original version (French)