Lot no. 6
BARBEY D'AUREVILLY Jules (1808-1889). Poussières. Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1897; in-8, navy blue half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillet, spine ribbed with gilt head, grey cover (Dupré). First bookstore edition, largely original. The first, containing only 12 poems, was printed in Caen for friends in 1854, with 36 copies printed. ☞ One of 500 copies on fine Hollande paper, edition after 20 Japon, well bound. - Very rare foxing. 📖 Talvart et Place, I, 219, n° 39a.
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