Choix de poésies, COPY NUMBER 2 OF 10 COPIES "sur papier du Japon", AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "à Félicien Champsaur son ami P. Verlaine" on the half-title, frontispiece portrait of Verlaine after Eugène Carrière, Paris, Charpentier, 1891; Invectives, Léon Vanier, 1896, 2 works bound in 1 vol., tipped-in at front of volume an AUTOGRAPH POSTCARD SIGNED BY VERLAINE ("P.V.") to Champsaur ("Cher ami...", dated ""Vendredi 30") discussing sending proofs and correcting "Fêtes galantes", one page with address panel, franked 30 January 1891, on the title to the sequence of "Fêtes galantes" is pasted a manuscript cutting with Champsaur's name and a picture of Verlaine, later blue quarter morocco, gilt lettered on spine, t.e.g., publisher's yellow upper wrapper of first work, and both wrappers of second bound in; Confessions. Notes autobiographiques, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "à M. Alfred Capus, hommage d'auteur P. Verlaine" on the half-title, frontispiece portrait of Verlaine by Anquetin, later half morocco, publisher's printed wrappers bound in, "Fin De Siècle", 1895, FIRST EDITIONS, 8vo (2)

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Choix de poèsies is inscribed by Verlaine to the novelist and journalist Félicien Champsaur (1858–1934); one collection within the volume, "Fêtes galantes", was addressed "à Félicien Champsaur", and is discussed in the autograph postcard tipped into the volume. Verlaine also addressed a poem, sonnet LIV, to Champsaur in Invectives. Alfred Capus (1858-1922), the recipient of Confessions was also a novelist and journalist.

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VERLAINE (PAUL) Choix de poésies, COPY NUMBER 2 OF 10 COPIES "sur papier du Japon", AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "à Félicien Champsaur son ami P. Verlaine" on the half-title, FIRST EDITIONS, 8vo (2)

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