207 - MALLARMÉ, Stéphane. Les Poésies.

MALLARMÉ, Stéphane. Les Poésies. A posthumous edition, partly in the original version, in which 14 poems appear for the first time. A fine copy from the library of André Maurois Brussels, Edmond Deman, 1899. In-8 Bradel style, old gold Tangier half-maroquin, smooth spine with black title label, gilt head, untrimmed, covers and spine preserved (modern binding). 135 pages and 5 unnumbered folios. (bibliography, table of contents, and colophon), 1 frontispiece drawn and signed on the plate by Félicien Rops (titled “La Lyre”), a vignette on the title page, letterpress printing in black and red. Fragile seams, browned spine, minor scuffing, a tiny tear in the title label, a repaired tear in the upper margin of the front cover. A posthumous edition, partly original, and the first typographic edition published after the extremely rare 1887 facsimile edition. 14 poems are published here for the first time. This copy contains 3 newspaper clippings from *Le Figaro* dated February 1949 (including one in duplicate), mentioning that this copy was sold at an auction organized by Maurice Rheims and Madame Vidal-Mégret. From the library of the French writer André Maurois (1885–1967), with his bookplate engraved by Raoul Serres after a design by Henri Mondor. A fine copy, clean and fresh inside, with its original covers intact.