BARBUSSE (H.): Pleureuses. Fasquelle, 1895. In-12 paperback - Lot 183

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BARBUSSE (H.): Pleureuses. Fasquelle, 1895. In-12 paperback - Lot 183
BARBUSSE (H.): Pleureuses. Fasquelle, 1895. In-12 paperback (spine faded and broken, first cover partly detached). First edition on publisher's paper of the author's first book. Precious copy enriched with a beautiful dispatch from the author to Catulle Mendès and a long and beautiful LAS from Barbusse to the same, dated 1904. "These verses, composed by Henri Barbusse between his eighteenth and twentieth year, were welcomed with a favour which the world of letters has not lost the memory of. Catulle Mendès, who had known Barbusse only through his verses and who, as he wrote, had "this proud joy of having loved him only after having admired him", greeted at the appearance of Pleureuses, this unknown man to whom he predicted fame, this newcomer "who bore on his forehead the fatal and magnificent sign".No reprint has been made of this collection, which was quickly sold out and whose first edition is untraceable." (foreword to the 1920 Flammarion reprint)
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