Lettres d'Adolescence
Paris: Fernand Roches, 1929.
Introduction by Gilbert Chinard. Illustrated at rear with 2 folding facsimile letters, one bound-in and one inserted in a printed glassine envelope. 170 pages with text in French. 8vo, handsomely bound in full brown polished calf with ornate gilt-stamped spine and inner dentelles. Paris: Editions Fernand Roches, 1929. Limited first edition -- 1 of only 10 lettered copies "C" from a total edition of 210 copies. Some fading on covers; back panel scuffed and light foxing on first and last several pages, still a very good(+) copy with un-opened pages. Chinard's own copy, with two original letters addressed to him, and pertaining to the book, laid in.
Maurice de Guerin (1810-1839) "was essentially a poet, but his prose is more striking and original than his poetry. Its peculiar and unique charm arises from his strong and absorbing passion for nature, a passion whose intensity reached almost to adoration and worship, but in which the pagan was more prominent than the moral element. According to Sainte-Beuve, 'no French poet or painter has rendered so well the feeling for nature--the feeling not so much for details as for the ensemble and the divine universality, the feeling for the origin of things and the sovereign principle of life.'" --Wikipedia
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good(+)
Edition: Limited
Language: French
Price: $300.00
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