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NOUVEAU (Germain). Poésies d'Humilis et vers inédits. Paris, Albert Messein, 1924. In-8 paperback, printed cover. Edition of 500 copies; n°416 of 480 on vellum pur fil. With small erratum leaflet. A few light freckles, otherwise a good, untrimmed copy with full margins. Also by the same author: - Le Maron travesti ou La Quatrième églogue de Virgile mise en vers burlesques par Monsieur de La Guerrière. Paris, Messein, 1903 [1935]. In-4, paperback, printed cover. Edition of 300 copies on Arches laid paper (n°114). - Le Calepin du mendiant, preceded by other poems (unpublished verses). Introduction, biography and notes by Jules Mouquet. Genève, Pierre Cailler, 1949. In-12, paperback. Portraits in frontispiece. Edition of 1350 copies; n°257 of 1000 on Chamois paper. A very good uncut copy.

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NOUVEAU (Germain). Poésies d'Humilis et vers inédits. Paris, Albert Messein, 1924. In-8 paperback, printed cover. Edition of 500 copies; n°416 of 480 on vellum pur fil. With small erratum leaflet. A few light freckles, otherwise a good, untrimmed copy with full margins. Also by the same author: - Le Maron travesti ou La Quatrième églogue de Virgile mise en vers burlesques par Monsieur de La Guerrière. Paris, Messein, 1903 [1935]. In-4, paperback, printed cover. Edition of 300 copies on Arches laid paper (n°114). - Le Calepin du mendiant, preceded by other poems (unpublished verses). Introduction, biography and notes by Jules Mouquet. Genève, Pierre Cailler, 1949. In-12, paperback. Portraits in frontispiece. Edition of 1350 copies; n°257 of 1000 on Chamois paper. A very good uncut copy.

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[NOUVEAU (Germain, under the pseudonym of G.-N. HUMILIS)]. Savoir Aimer. Paris, published by the Amis de l'Auteur under the auspices of the Société des Poètes français, 1904. In-12, 101-[7] pp. red cloth bradel, title page on spine, gilt date on tail, cover and spine preserved (Louis Christy rel.). Covers and spine preserved (Louis Christy binding). Covers slightly rubbed, some small rubs to title page. Missing cut (from the "achevé d'imprimer") at the bottom of the last table leaf. Small handwritten correction to a letter in brown ink on p. 57. Very rare first edition of this important collection by the vagabond poet Germain Nouveau (1851-1920), who was close to Mallarmé, Richepin, the Zutists, Charles Cros, Verlaine and, of course, Rimbaud, whom he accompanied to London and helped to publish Illuminations. Returning to France after a stay in Belgium and travels that took him to Lebanon, among other places, his mental health deteriorated, with several mystical crises. He died in 1920 after years of wandering, including two pilgrimages to Rome and Santiago de Compostela. Germain Nouveau had always opposed the publication of his poems during his lifetime, and it is to the Rosicrucian writer Léonce de Larmandie that we owe the publication of two editions of poems under the pseudonym Humilis: Savoir aimer in 1904 and, in 1910, Les Poèmes d'Humilis (with reproductions of drawings by Auguste Rodin). This edition of Savoir aimer was printed in a limited edition of 200 copies. Germain Nouveau took Léonce de Larmandie to court over the publication, and is said to have destroyed every copy he came across. The Surrealists found in him a precursor, and André Breton devoted a notice to him in the Anthologie de l'humour noir: "The most flexible thought can hardly make one of the twenty-one year old with the sunny voice and mirage eyes who immediately conquers Rimbaud's friendship [....] and the thirty-year-old beggar bent over in the porch of Saint-Sauveur d'Aix, to whom Paul Cézanne, on his way to mass, will beg an ecu every Sunday. Yet absolute non-conformism rules this life from one end to the other."