NUMÉRO 8 : AVRIL 2007/MAI 2007

§12. la bibliographie du mois

par D.C.Rose

Ce mois-ci, on pourra trouver ci-dessous une liste des livres fin-de-siècle français offerts par la librairie d’occasion anglaise Delectus. (Toutes les descriptions sont celles données par Delectus). On peut contacter Delectus à www.delectusbooks.com.

BARBEY

[011019] Barbey D'Aurevilly, Jules. What Never Dies: A Romance. London: Fortune Press, 1933. First U.K. Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. D'Arch Smith (53) who notes: 'A Fortune Press prospectus announces the edition to be limited to a thousand. A translation, often wrongly ascribed to Oscar Wilde, of Ce qui ne Meurt pas (1884).’ £35.00

[001116] Barbey D'Aurevilly, Jules. Les Diaboliques. ill. Dodie Masterman. London: Paul Elek, 1947. First Thus. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. Introduction by Peter Quennell. English text. £15.00

[009997] Barbey D'Aurevilly, Jules. The Diaboliques. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. Third Printing. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Translated from the French, with an introduction, by Ernest Boyd and an essay by Edmund Gosse. Some minor wear. £10.00

BAUDELAIRE

[001109] Baudelaire, Charles. The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays. London: Phaidon Press, 1963. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Good. Translated and edited by Jonathan Main. Includes essays on Edgar Allan Poe, Wagner, Delacroix and others. £20.00

[000611] Porche, Francois. Charles Baudelaire. New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Translated by John Mavin. £20.00

[000612] Quennell, Peter. Baudelaire and the Symbolists: Five Essays. London: Chatto & Windus, 1929. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. Includes chapters on Gerard de Nerval, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Arthur Rimbaud, Mallarme and others. £35.00

[000808] Raymond, Marcel. De Baudelaire au Surrealisme. Paris: Librairie Jose Corti, 1969. Edition Nouvelle Revue et Remaniee. 8vo. Paperback. Good French text. £25.00

[000513] Ruff, Marcel. Baudelaire. London: University of London Press, 1966. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. ISBN: 0340061618. Biography and criticism with bibliography and notes. £12.00

[000614] Shanks, Kewis Piaget. Baudelaire: Flesh and Spirit. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1930. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. Biography and criticism with bibliography and notes. £15.00

BERNHARDT

[001120] Skinner, Cornelia Otis. Madame Sarah. London: Michael Joseph, 1967. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Biography of Sarah Bernhardt. Price clipped. £15.00

[025012] Richardson, Joanna. Madame Sarah. London: Max Reinhardt, 1959. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good / Good. Biography of Sarah Bernhardt. £15.00

BLOY

[010232] Polimeni, Emmanuela. Leon Bloy: The Pauper Prophet 1846-1917. London: Dennis Dobson, 1947. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Good. Includes a bibliography. £25.00

[016217] Dubois, E.T.. Portrait of Leon Bloy. London: Sheed & Ward, 1950. First Edition. 12mo.Cloth. As New / Fine. Includes a bibliography and chronology. £20.00

[027259] Heppenstall, Rayner. Leon Bloy. Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes, 1953. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Good. ISBN: 0370001567. Includes a chronology. £25.00

CERARD

[001208] Cogny, Pierre. L'Huysmans Intime de Henry Cerard et Jean de Caldain. Paris: Librairie Nizet, 1957. First Edition. 8vo. Paperback. As New Biographical study. French text. Pages uncut. £20.00

GAUTIER

[002550] Gautier, Theophile. Musee Secret. ill. Mya. Paris: 1932. First Thus. 4to. Paperback in Wraps. Very Good / Good. Text publie en 1864 dans le "Parnasse Satyrique du XIX siecle". Introduction par Jean Servien. Pointes seches originales de Mya. Hand numbered 504/1002. French Text. £60.00

[006324] Gautier, Theophile. The Wife of King Candaules. ill. Richard Roth. New York: Wisdom House, 1942. First English Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. Introduction by Anatole France. £20.00

[011005] Gautier, Theophile. Captain Fracasse. London: Collins, First Thus. 8vo. Cloth. Good / Poor. Edited by G.F. Monkshood. c.1920s. d/j chipped and worn, front flap missing. £20.00

[011937] Gautier, Theophile. Mademoiselle de Maupin. ill. Mark Severin. London: The Folio Society, 1948. First Thus. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. The story of a woman who disguises herself as a man in order to discover man's true nature before taking a husband or lover, and the confusion that ensues.Translated by R. & E. Powys Mathers. Boards a little grubby. £15.00

[011006] Gautier, Theophile. Poesies. London: University of London: The Athlone Press, 1973. First Paperback Edition. 8vo. Paperback. Good ISBN: 0485127059. Anthology and criticism of Theophile Gautier's poetry edited by Harry Cockerham. Poems in French, criticism in English. £20.00

[001171] Camp, Maxime Du. Theophile Gautier. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fine / No Jacket as Issued. Preface by Andrew Lang. Pages unopened, superb condition. £35.00

GIDE

[000952] Gide, André. Corydon. London: Secker & Warburg, 1952. First English Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0436175002. Novel. £8.00

[024772] Gide, André. The School for Wives, Robert, and Genevieve, or the Unfinished Confidence. London: Cassell & Co., 1953. First English Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0304927325. Novel. Rebound in strong library binding. £15.00

[025228] Gide, André. Two Symphonies. London: Cassell & Co., 1949. First Thus. 12mo.Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0304929875. Novel. Translated from the French by Dorothy Bussy, rebound in strong library binding. £15.00

[025229] Gide, André. The Coiners. London: Cassell & Co., 1958. Third Edition. 12mo.Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / Good. ISBN: 0304918059. Novel. (1869-1951) Translated from the French by Dorothy Bussy, rebound in strong librrary binding. £20.00

[025230] Gide, André. The Immoralist. London: Cassell & Co., 1953. First English Edition. 12mo.Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. Gide's novel examines the inevitable conflicts that arise when a pleasure seeker challenges conventional society and, without moralizing, raises complex issues involving the extent of personal responsibility. Translated from the French by Dorothy Bussy, rebound in strong librrary binding. £20.00

[025231] Gide, André. The Vatican Cellars. London: Cassell & Co., 1952. First English Edition. 12mo.Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0304930083. Translated from the French by Dorothy Bussy, rebound in strong librrary binding. £20.00

[026584] Gide, André. The Return of the Prodigal: Preceded By Five Other Treatises with Saul, A Drama in Five Acts.. London: Secker & Warburg, 1953. First English Edition. 12mo.Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0436175061. (1869-1951) French novelist, playwright, and critic. His novels and Journals (1885-1950) show the constant struggle between his puritan and pagan elements. Mature works, such as Les Faux-monnayeurs (1926), dramatize a search for spiritual truth. He received the 1947 Nobel Prize in literature. Translated By Dorothy Bussy. £15.00

[013770] Pierre-Quint, Leon (Gide, André). André Gide: His Life and His Work. London: Jonathan Cape, 1934. First English Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Good. Translated by Dorothy M. Richardson. Includes bibliography of Gide's works in the original and in translation. Some chipping and foxing to d/j. £20.00

[025227] Gide, André. Fruits of the Earth. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. First English Edition. 12mo.Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0436175002. Novel. Translated from the French by Dorothy Bussy, rebound in strong librrary binding. £10.00

GOURMONT

[001180] Gourmont, Remy De. Dream of a Woman. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. First US Edition. 8vo. Quarter Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Translated by Lewis Galantiere. Corners rubbed. £25.00

[001181] Gourmont, Remy De. A Night in the Luxembourg. London: Stephen Swift, 1912. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. Preface and appendix by Arthur Ransome. £35.00

HUYSMANS

[001203] Huysmans, J.K.. Trois Eglises et Trois Primitifs. Pairs: Librairie Plon, 1908. First Thus. 8vo. Paperback. Very Good French text. In protective collectors slipcase with leather spine labels. £70.00

[003679] Huysmans, J.K.. En Menage (Living Together). London: Fortune Press, 1969. First English Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fine / No Jacket. ISBN: 0852400101. Superb novel set in late 19thc. Paris by the author of The Vatard Sisters, La Bas and Marthe. The only English edition based upon the 1881 French original. Translated, with introduction, notes and Huysmans bibliography by J.W.G. Sandiford-Pelle. Written when Huysmans was under the influence of Emile Zola's naturalist style. £25.00

[012149] Huysmans, J.K.. La Bas (Down There). London: Fortune Press, 1952. First Thus. 8vo. Cloth. As New / No Jacket. Superb decadent novel about Durtal, a man obsessed with satanism and the French child murderer and satanist Gilles de Rais. Preface and notes by Allan Hull Walton and Montague Summers. An English translation from the original French by Alfred Allinson. (D'Arch Smith 299) £9.95

[020568] Huysmans, J.K.. The Road From Decadence: From Brothel to Cloister, Selected Letters of J.K. Huysmans. Colombus: Ohio State University Press, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fine / Very Good. ISBN: 0814204929. Edited by Barbara Beaumont. £45.00

[022461] Kahn, Annette. J-. K. Huysmans: Novelist, Poet and Art Critic. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1982. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. As New / No Jacket as Issued. Excellent study of French author J.K. Huysmans and his works including his classic novel on satanism, La Bas and the decadent classic Against Nature, along with his art criticism of Gustave Moreau, Degas, Jean-Louis Forain, Jean Francois Raffaelli, Felicien Rops, Odilon Redon with comprehensive notes, bibliography and index. £25.00

[024106] Huysmans, J.-K.. Marthe. London: Fortune Press, 1958. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. As New / No Jacket. Superb decadent novel about a man's obsession with a prostitute in 1890s Paris. Translated and with an Introduction by Robert Baldick. An unread copy, all pages uncut. £20.00

[001208] Cogny, Pierre. L'Huysmans Intime de Henry Cerard et Jean de Caldain. Paris: Librairie Nizet, 1957. First Edition. 8vo. Paperback. As New Biographical study. French text. Pages uncut. £20.00

[024597] Lloyd, Christopher. J.K. Huysmans and the Fin-de-Siecle Novel. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992. First Paperback Edition. 8vo. Paperback. As New ISBN: 0748602348. An introductory study of Huysmans' writing, looking at all his major works and relating them to the work of Zola, Flaubert and the Goncourt brothers. Using recently published letters the author reveals new aspects of Huysmans' personal life and shows that textuality and sexuality, writing and living are inseparable for this author. Huysmans' use of French language and the parallels he drew between literature and the visual arts are discussed. The book ends with analyses of related texts, grouped thematically and covering his treatment of women, the monstrous and the supernatural. £19.99

[024886] J-.K. Huysmans, J.C. Babcock (Translator). The Vatard Sisters. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983. First English Edition. 8vo. Cloth. As New / Fine. ISBN: 0813114268. Superb novel set in the brutal teeming life of the industrial quarters of Paris in the 1870s. The sisters are Desiree, an urchin of fifteen, a brunette with large pale eyes, plump without being fat, attractive and clean; and Celine, the carouser, a big girl with clear eyes and hair the colour of straw, a solid vigorous girl whose blood raced and danced in her veins. Their lives revolve around the gaslit bookbindery where they work and the cheap wine shops of their quarter, all of which Huysmans describes in minute and colourful detail. Written when Huysmans was under the influence of the works of Emile Zola. First and only translation of the 1878 edition of Les Soeurs Vatard by James C. Babcock. £25.00

[000055] Marx, Roger (Huysmans, J.K.). J.K. Huysmans: Un Essai de Roger Marx Ecrit un an Apres le Decernement du Prix Legion d'Honneur a Huysmans, ici Fidelement Transcrit d'Apres la Version Francaise Originale du Manuscrit de l'Auteur dans la Collection Basilike. Paris: Basilike, 1974. First Edition. 8vo. Booklet. Private Press. As New Text of a speech given on Huysmans' receipt on the Legion d'Honneur in 1893. Published by Paul James Davies and printed on l'Ingres d'Arches paper in an edition of 215 copies. French text. £8.00

[001207] Seilliere, Ernest. J.K. Huysmans. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1931. First Edition. 8vo. Paperback. Very Good Biography. French text. £30.00

[001210] Therive, André. J.K. Huysmans: Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions De La Nouvelle Revue Critique, 1924. First Edition. 8vo. Paperback. Very Good Biographical and critical study. French text. £30.00

[015668] Huysmans, J.-K.. Parisian Sketches. London: Fortune Press, 1962. First English Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. As New / No Jacket. A translation of Croquis Parisiens by Richard Griffths. The only English edition of these delightful prose poems. (d'Arch Smith 304). Rare. £20.00

JARRY

[013212] LaBelle, Maurice Marc. Alfred Jarry: Nihilism and the Theater of the Absurd. New York: New York University Press, 1980. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 081474995X. Rare. £60.00

[026130] Fisher, Ben. The Pataphysician's Library: An Exploration of Alfred Jarry's Livres Pairs. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000. First Paperback Edition. 8vo. Paperback. As New ISBN: 0853239266. A study of aspects of 1890s French literature, with specific reference to the traditions of symbolism and decadence and explaining the vibrant and experimental atmosphere of the time. Its main focus is Alfred Jarry, who has proved to be one of the more durable fin de siecle authors. £6.99

LAUTREAMONT

[025635] Nesselroth, Peter W.. Lautr€amont's Imagery: A Stylistic Approach. Geneve: Librairie Droz, 1969. First Edition. 8vo. Paperback. As New Includes superb bibliography. £45.00

[025531] Lack, Roland-Francois. Poetics of the Pretext: Reading Lautréamont. Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1998. First Edition. 8vo. Paperback. As New / As New. ISBN: 0859894983. A study of the plagiarizing poet Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautréamont (1846-1870), who exerted a strong influence on artists and writers as diverse as Kenneth Anger, André Breton, Paul Bowles and Dali, and was studied by Blanchot, Derrida and Bachelard. £14.95

LAUTREC

[024393] Fermigier, André. Toulouse-Lautrec. London: Pall Mall Press, 1969. First English Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / Good. ISBN: 0269025189. (1864-1901). Translated by Paul Stevenson. £40.00

[024394] Mack, Gerstle. Toulouse-Lautrec. London: Jonathan Cape, 1938. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. Rebound in strong library binding. £20.00

LORRAIN

[025315] Lorrain, Jean. La Maison Philibert. ill. George Bottini. Paris: Librairie Universelle, 1904. First Thus. 12mo.Paperback. Good La vie d"un bordel décrite avec réalisme et humour par l"écrivain " décadent ". Jean Lorrain (August 29, 1855 - June 30, 1906), born Paul Duval, was a French poet and novelist of the Symbolist school. Lorrain was a dedicated disciple of dandyism, and (for the times) openly homosexual. Lorrain wrote a number of collections of verse, including La forêt bleue (1887) and L'ombre ardente, (1892). He is also remembered for his decadent novels and short stories, such as Monsieur de Phocas (1901) and Histoires des masques (1900), as well as for one of his best novels, Sonyeuse, which he links to portraits exhibited by Antonio de La Gandara in 1893. French text. From the Library of Gerschon Legman. "4e mille" sur la couverture. Spine worn. £95.00

LOUŸS

[003524] Louÿs, Pierre. The Twilight of the Nymphs. ill. Cecil Beaton. London: Fortune Press, 1928. First English Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket as Issued. Introduction by Shane Leslie, translated by Phillis Duveen. Hand numbered limited edition 470/1200. Some minor wear to edges and corners. £25.00

[003527] Louÿs, Pierre. Woman and Puppet. ill. William Siegel. New York: Privately Printed, 1930. First Thus. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Limited to 2500 copies. Some wear to extremities. £25.00

[003528] Louÿs, Pierre. Woman and Puppet. London: Greening & Co., 1908. First English Edition. 12mo.Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. Translated by G.F. Monkshood. £20.00

[003531] Louÿs, Pierre. La Femme et le Pantin. ill. Morin Jean. Paris: Societe du Mercure de France, 1898. Sixth Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good French Text. £20.00

[006261] Louÿs, Pierre. Mother's Three Daughters. New York: Grove Press, 1969. First English Edition. 12mo.Cloth. Very Good / Fair. Some minor tears to d/j. £25.00

[009731] Louÿs, Pierre. The She Devils. London: Velvet Publications, 1996. Second Printing. 8vo. Paperback. As New ISBN: 1871592518. The She Devils tells of a mother and her three daughters, sharing their inexhaustible sexual favours between the same young man, each other, and anyone else who enters their web of depravity. From a chance encounter on the stairway with a voluptuous young girl, the narrator is drawn to become the play-thing of four rapacious females, experiencing them all in various combinations of increasingly wild debauchery, until they one day vanish as mysteriously as they had appeared. Described by Susan Sontag as one of the few works of the erotic imagination to deserve true literary status, The She Devils remains Pierre Louÿs most intense, claustrophobic work; a study of sexual obsession and monomania unsurpassed in its depictions of carnal excess, unbridled lust and limitless perversity. £12.00

[017111] Louÿs, Pierre. The Songs of Bilitis. London: Fortune Press, 1928. First English Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fine / Very Good. One of 925 copies on Kelmscott hand made paper. This copy not numbered. Pages uncut. £20.00

[017800] Louÿs, Pierre. The Erotic Adventures of Toinon. London: Velvet Publications, 1999. First English Edition. 12mo.Laminated Boards. As New / No Jacket as Issued. ISBN: 1871592836. Young Antoinette, known as Toinon, is the precocious narrator of these memoirs from a select girl's boarding school. Toinon details the wild sexual experimentation that transpires nightly between herself, her seventeen co-boarders, and certain members of staff. This explicit hymn to lesbianism and sexual mania was among the final papers of Pierre Louÿs, the author famous for The She Devils. First and only English translation of this French erotic classic from the turn of the century by John Phillips. Hand numbered limited edition of 500 copies only. £9.99

[020604] Louÿs, Pierre. De Vrouw en de Ledenpop. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 1978. First Dutch Edition. 8vo. Paperback. Fine ISBN: 906019585X. Dutch translation of La Femme et le Pantin. £20.00

[025477] Louÿs, Pierre. Manuel de Civilite a l'Usage Grands Filles. ill. Loïc Dubigeon. Paris: Editions Astarte, 1997. First Edition. 8vo. Laminated Boards. As New ISBN: 2909607135. Explicitly illustrated. Préface de Stéphan Lévy Kuentz. Biographies succintes d’Alexandre Dupouy. Limited to 1000 copies only. French text. £35.00

[003525] Louÿs, Pierre. Aphrodite: A Novel of Ancient Morals. London: Fortune Press, 1928. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket as Issued. Introduction by Shane Leslie. Hand numbered limited edition 110/1075. Corners and edges rubbed. £25.00

MALLARMé

[001198] Fowlie, Wallace. Mallarmé. ill. Henri Matisse. London: Dennis Dobson, 1953. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0226258807. Biography. £20.00

[004720] Mallarmé, Stéphane. Poésies. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1986. First Edition. 8vo. Paperback in Wraps. Private Press. As New / As New. ISBN: 094818910X. Selected and edited with notes and a bibliography by Bruce Morris. Translated by Arthur Symons. Hand numbered edition of 150 copies only. £30.00

[001197] Michaud, Guy. Mallarmé. London: Peter Owen, 1966. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. Good / Good. ISBN: 0720652049. Biography. £20.00

MIRBEAU

[006388] Mirbeau, Octave. The Garden of Tortures. London: Fortune Press, 1938. First English Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fine / No Jacket. Classic decadent novel about a young Frenchman's obsessive infatuation with a strange, cruel, yet exotic girl. Although he constantly tries to escape her influence he always returns. Translated by Donald J. MacAndréw. Limited to 1000 copies, pages uncut (d'Arch Smith 390) £25.00

[006278] Mirbeau, Octave. Celestine: Being the Diary of a Chambermaid. New York: William Faro Inc., 1930. First English Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. Translated by Alan Durst. A Samuel Roth publication. £25.00

NERVAL

[011962] Marie, Aristide. Gérard de Nerval: Le poète et l'homme d'après des manuscrits et documents Inédits. Paris: Hachette, 1955. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Boards. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket as Issued. Biography with unpublished material, including family letters. Avec une préface de André Billy. French text. Poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer, Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855) explored the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and fiction with his groundbreaking writings. This confirmed Nerval's place as a pioneering modernist, a precursor of the French Symbolists and a vital model for such writers as Marcel Proust, André Breton, Antonin Artaud and Michel Leiris. £25.00

[026587] Nerval, Gérard De. Selected Writings. London: Peter Owen, 1958. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 01722337929. Translated and Introduced by Geoffrey Wagner. Poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer, Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855) explored the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and fiction with his groundbreaking writings. This comprehensive selection of his works includes "Aurelia", the memoir of his madness; the haunting novella of love and memory "Sylvie" (considered to be a masterpiece by Proust); the hermetic sonnets of "The Chimeras"; as well as Nerval's experimental fictions and selections from his correspondence, which demonstrate his lucid awareness of how nineteenth-century psychiatry consigned his fertile imagination to the status of mental illness. Together these pieces confirm Nerval's place as a pioneering modernist, a precursor of the French Symbolists and a vital model for such writers as Marcel Proust, André Breton, Antonin Artaud and Michel Leiris. £25.00

RIMBAUD

[001236] Bloom, Harold (Editor). Arthur Rimbaud: Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House, 1988. First Edition. 8vo. Hardcover. As New / As New. ISBN: 1555462928. £20.00

[020563] Reed, Jeremy. Delirium: An Interpretation of Arthur Rimbaud. London: Peter Owen, 1991. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0720608252. The author recreates the state of being in which Rimbaud wrote Une Saison en Enfer. At the end is a selection by the author of some of his own versions of Rimbaud's poems. £25.00

RODENBACH

[020977] Rodenbach, Georges. Bruges-la-Morte. Paisley: Wilfion Books, 1991. Third Impression. 8vo. Paperback. As New ISBN: 0905075234. Classic decadent crime novel about murder in the beautiful Belgian city of Bruges. Translated by Philip Mosley. £45.00

VERLAINE

[000848] Roberts, Bechhofer. Paul Verlaine. London: Jarrolds, 1937. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. Biography. £15.00

[000876] Hanson, Lawrence & Elisabeth. Verlaine: Fool of God. New York: Random House, 1957. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good. Biography. £15.00

WILDE

[006187] Laupts, Dr.. Perversion & Perversité Sexuelles: Une enquête médicale sur l'inversion. Notes et documents. Le roman d'un inverti-né. Le procès Wilde. La guérison et la prophylaxie de l'Inversion. Paris: Georges Carré, 1896. First Edition. 8vo. Full-Leather. Fine / No Jacket as Issued. One of the most rare and important works on homosexuality. Includes 85 pages on Oscar Wilde. Preface by Emile Zola. Rebound with marbled end papers, some minor edge wear. French text. £745.00

ZOLA

[023827] Schom, Alan. A Biography of Emile Zola. New York: Henry Holt, 1988. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. As New / Fine. ISBN: 0805007105. An important study of the French novelist. £25.00

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[000310] Cailliet, Emile. The Themes of Magic in French Nineteenth Century French Fiction. Philadelphia: Porcupine Press, 1980. Second Printing. 8vo. Cloth. As New / No Jacket as Issued. ISBN: 0879915013. Facsimile of the 1932 edition. Includes much on Balzac, Charles Baudelaire, Victor Hugo, J.K. Huysmans, Charles Nodier and others. £19.95

[009602] Fowlie, Wallace. Climate of Violence: The French Literary Tradition from Baudelaire to the Present. London: Secker & Warburg, 1969. First U.K. Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0436162008. Superb history of the French literary Avant Garde from symbolists through to the absurdists and existentialists including Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Lautreamont, Genet, Sartre, Apollinaire Proust, Gide etc. £25.00

[018715] Guerlac, Suzanne. The Impersonal Sublime: Hugo, Baudelaire, Lautreamont. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. As New / As New. ISBN: 0804717869. Study of the aesthetics of the sublime tracing its trajectory from romanticism through symbolism and decadence to modernism. The question of the sublime, which links the idea of aesthetic force with rhetorical impact and moral law, has been an important topic in discussion of eighteenth and nineteenth-century art and the shift between them. This book argues that the sublime is equally important in understanding the shift from romanticism to modernism later in the century. The author studies the work of three French authors conventionally considered pivotal figures in the trajectory from romanticism to modernism: Hugo, father of romanticism; Baudelaire, precursor of symbolist modernism; and Lautreamont, hero of (post) modernism. She traces this literary-historical as Hugo's Quatre-vingt-treize and L'Homme qui rit, Baudelaire's Spleen de Paris and Petits poemes en prose, and Lautreamont's Chants de Maldoror and Poesies - all seen from a perspective of the aesthetics of the sublime. This perspective is developed through analyses of the treatises on the sublime by Longinus, Boileau, Burke, and Kant. The author blends three points of view in her exploration, historical, theoretical, and literary and demonstrates that specific questions relevant to our comprehension of romanticism, modernity, and the sublime pervade the texts studied. While each reading is meant to stand on its own and to respect the specificity of the work in question (as well as the broader commitments of that writer), the author suggests that a developing argument concerning the sublime can be appreciated only by following the connections made in the passage from one text to another. Finally, the author argues against the dominant critical treatment of the sublime in the Anglo-American context, which analyzes the sublime in phenomenological terms and associates it with a psychoanalytic notion of sublimation. Hugo, Baudelaire, and Lautreamont reveal the sublime to be at work in the modern French context in a desublimating and nonphenomenological mode, one that is ultimately more compatible with fundamental issues at stake in the sublime such as the enhancement of, and challenge to, the notion of the aesthetic per se that characterizes art developments in the modern period. Includes notes, bibliography and index. £12.95

[000836] Lowrie, Joyce O.. The Violent Mystique: Thematics of Retribution and Expiation in Balzac, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Bloy and Huysmans. Geneve: Librairie Droz, 1974. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. As New / No Jacket as Issued. Includes superb bibliography. Part of the series: Series: Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire. £22.00

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