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VERLAINE (Paul)

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VERLAINE (Paul)

Parallel- Songs for her-Élégies-Odes in her honour- Happiness. Paris, Léon Vanier, 1889-1893. 5 volumes petit in-12, first 4 volumes uniformly bound, half calf rose-coloured with corners, spine ribbed and decorated with cold-stamped fillet boxes, heads of edges gilt, untrimmed, covers and spine preserved (Huser binding) and last volume, bradel with corners in mustard percaline cardboard and marbled paper, smooth spine with gold title, cover preserved (Unsigned binding).
Original editions of his latest collections in verse and prose, illustrating a perpetual rift between "wise" and impossible resolutions and relapses into vice and "sin
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The poem "Chastity" intended to appear in Bonheur is inserted at the end of Parallèlement between pages 114 and

115

.copies and bindings in good condition.ProvenanceEx-libris Robert Moreau.