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VERNE, JULES.
Around the
World in Eighty Days.
Illustrations by
A. de Neuville and L. Bennett, full-page
sketch of the “Saint Michael” by Verne.
8vo, brown pictorial cloth, decorated in
black and gilt, over beveled boards,
cocked, spine foot frayed slightly, corners
bumped, minor scuffs; intermittent foxing,
mostly mild, last signature pulling.
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873
[1,800/2,500]
FIRST FULLY ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN EDI
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TION
with the scarce 1873 title-page. Osgood
had published their first edition in the summer
of the same year with a single illustration,
Verne’s sketch of the “Saint Michel.” Verne’s
most widely published novel. Myers, 54.
WITH HOLOGRAPH POEM
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VERLAINE, PAUL.
Chansons pour elle.
Half-title. Frontispiece portrait and
title vignette. Thin 8vo, contemporary full plum morocco, spine title in gilt in compart-
ments, inner dentelles, by Stikeman; bookplates on front pastedown and endpaper.
Paris: LéonVanier, 1891
[2,000/3,000]
FIRST EDITION
,
WITH
14-
LINE MAUNSCRIPT POEM
“
DÉDICACES
”
on single leaf, recto only, bound
in after title, that begins with a 2-line dedication: “au Vicomte de Lutrec / Lettre du jour de l’an.”
Followed by four stanzas, reading in full:“Ce n’est pas un bonjour tout sec / Mon cher Guy, vicomte
Lautrec / Que je vous donne, c’est avec / Un voue qui ne part pas du bec, / Mais un qui vient du
coeur vraiment / Et ce sous la foi du serment / D’ailleurs vous savez qu’il ne ment / En dépit de la
rime en ment. / -Rime calumniée et trop / Méprisée ainsi qu’un sirop / Qui sucerait trop un poison!
- / Et voici une forte raison / Souvenez vous de l’hôpital! /Vous voyez que c’était fatal.” Signed “P.
Verlaine” below. Cateret II: 430;VicaireVII, 997.
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