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POE (Edgar) - Histoires extraordinaires. Paris, Michel Lévy Frères, 1856; in-8, XXXII-331 pp. bound in bottle-green half-chagrin, spine adorned with 4 nerves, speckled edges. Translation by Charles Baudelaire. First edition. Consultant : Mr. Philippe HENRY

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POE (Edgar) - Histoires extraordinaires. Paris, Michel Lévy Frères, 1856; in-8, XXXII-331 pp. bound in bottle-green half-chagrin, spine adorned with 4 nerves, speckled edges. Translation by Charles Baudelaire. First edition. Consultant : Mr. Philippe HENRY

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POE (Edgar): Extraordinary stories. Translation by Charles BAUDELAIRE. Paris, Michel Levy, 1856. Bound with POE (Edgar): Nouvelles Histoires extraordinaires. Translation by Charles BAUDELAIRE. Second edition. Paris, Michel Levy, 1859. Two works bound in one volume. 10.5 by 17 cm. XXXI-331; XXIV-288 pages. Contemporary red half-chagrin, 4 ribbed spine, decorated spine. Very good condition. Minor foxing on just a few pages. First edition of BAUDELAIRE's translation and preface for the Histoires extraordinaires, 2nd edition for the Nouvelles histoires.

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POE (Edgar Allan): Complete imaginative and poetic works : Extraordinary Stories - New Extraordinary Stories - Grotesque and Serious Stories - Poems - Last Eureka Tales - Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym. Color illustrations by Léonor FINI. Paris Vialetay, 1966. 6 volumes. 14 by 21.5 cm. Publisher's full red morocco-style binding, with POE's cold-engraved portrait on the 1st plate. Perfect condition. Numbered copy on large white vellum (the only paper). A very powerful and original illustration by Léonor FINI conveying all the depth of these fantastic tales.

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[Edgar POE] - André FONTAINAS (1865-1948, Belgian poet and critic) / Autograph letter signed, 2 p in-12, Paris, May 20, 1930: he sends "a new paper" on Edgar Poe's childhood (Fontainas had already published a biography of Edgar Poe with Mercure de France in 1919), gives instructions for presentation and adds: "above all, n'est-ce pas? no diaeresis on the name Poe, following the deplorable habit of French printers".

Estim. 5 - 10 EUR

21 volumes by Balzac, bound, volumes 2 to 22 (Michel Lévy editions from the 1860s)

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