DARZENS Rodolphe (1865-1938). La Nuit. First poems. 1882-1884. Paris, Henri Jouve, 1885; in-12, azure blue calf with reptile motifs, silver fillet on covers, smooth spine with silver author, title and date, silver head, cover washed and restored (Patrice Goy). First edition of the twenty-year-old author's first book. It was printed at 300 on quality handmade laid paper. ☞ Enriched copy with an autograph letter to Pierre Louÿs, the mentor of an entire generation: "To the poet, all my friendship. To the bibliophile this imbecile book". - A fine copy. 📖 Catalogue of the library of the late M. Pierre Louÿs, I, 1926, n° 67.