Lot no. 240
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM Auguste. Chez les passants. (Fantaisies, pamphlets et souvenirs). Paris, Comptoir d'édition, 1890; in-12, [4]-303-[1] pp, brown half-maroquin with corners, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt fleurons, untrimmed (J. De Buyl relieur Bruxelles). Posthumous first edition, published just after the poet's death in abject poverty.
Macabre etched frontispiece by Félicien Rops.
A fine copy.
See original version (French) Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
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