99 - [POETRY] - NOAILLES, Anna de (Countess Mathieu de Noailles)

[POETRY] - NOAILLES, Anna de (Countess Mathieu de Noailles) Les Éblouissements Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1907 In-12°. Full black morocco bound by H. Bellevallée. Spine with 5 raised bands, author, title, and date in gold. Intermittent gold fillets on the edges. Lining decorated with a gold fillet and arabesques surrounding beige moiré. Beige moiré endpapers. Gilded edges. Original covers and spine preserved. A few rare scuffs. Case edged with the same morocco leather. First edition of this major collection of lyric poetry, considered the poet’s masterpiece. A massive literary success upon its publication, *Les Éblouissements* marks the pinnacle of Anna de Noailles’s (1876–1933) style. Through its major thematic sections (*Life-Joy-Light*, *Beauty of France*, Gardens), the work displays a vibrant pantheistic sensibility, exalting nature with a fervor and verbal genius that dazzled her contemporaries, from Marcel Proust to Maurice Barrès. References: Talvart and Place, *Bibliographie des auteurs modernes de langue française*, vol. IV, p. 193; Monod, *Manuel de l’amateur de livres du XIXe siècle*, no. 3690; Carteret, *Le Trésor du bibliophile*, vol. IV, p. 137. Provenance: from the Errera family library