Jun 20, 2019 - Sale 2514

Sale 2514 - Lot 30

Unsold
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
PAUL VERLAINE (1844-1896)


"Hombres" (Hommes).

[iv], 48, [3] pp. Slim 8vo, later brown cloth, front cover blocked and lettered in gilt, trace of wear to spine tips; original wrappers bound in, small inked signature to top of front wrapper; page numbers 44-48 corrected by hand. [Paris]: Imprimé sous le manteau, [1903].

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limited edition, copy "E" of 25 lettered copies printed on japan vellum. Verlaine's final collection of poems, posthumously published. The fifteen poems center on queer love and were intended as a companion piece to his "Femmes" (1890). The final poem in this volume written in collaboration with Arthur Rimbaud. Carteret, II, p. 435.