Sale 2514 - The Pride Sale, June 20, 2019

30 c PAUL VERLAINE (1844-1896) “Hombres” (Hommes). [iv], 48, [3] pp. Slim 8vo, later brown cloth, front cover blocked and lettered in gilt, trace of wear to spine tips; original wrappers bound in, small inked signature to top of front wrapper; page numbers 44-48 corrected by hand. [Paris]: Imprimé sous le manteau, [1903].   [5,000/7,500] limited edition , copy “E” of 25 lettered copies printed on japan vellum . Verlaine’s final collection of poems, posthumously published. The fifteen poems center on queer love and were intended as a companion piece to his “Femmes” (1890). The final poem in this volume written in collaboration with Arthur Rimbaud. Carteret, II, p. 435.