LAUTREAMONT (Isidore DUCASSE, known as Count of). The Songs - Lot 203

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LAUTREAMONT (Isidore DUCASSE, known as Count of). The Songs - Lot 203
LAUTREAMONT (Isidore DUCASSE, known as Count of). The Songs of Maldoror. (Songs I, II, III, IV, V, VI). Paris et Bruxelles, chez tous les libraires, 1874. In-12 of 332 pp. and (1) f.: paperback. (spine broken, some rare foxing). First edition printed on account of the author. Second issue copy: title and covers renewed at the date of 1874. Isidore Ducasse (Montevideo, 1846-Paris, 1870) had entrusted his manuscript to the publisher Albert Lacroix who had it printed in Brussels at the end of the summer of 1869, without a publisher's name. For fear of criminal prosecution, Les Chants de Maldoror were not put up for sale; only about twenty copies were bound and given to the author, of which a good ten are still listed today. The stock left in the warehouse of the printer Lacroix was acquired by a bookseller in Brussels, Jean-Baptiste Rozez. He renewed the titles before putting the copies on sale in 1874, still without a publisher's name. The distribution seems to have been as modest as it was discreet. The publication did not have the slightest impact. In the meantime, the twenty-three year old author had died on November 24, 1870 in Paris. (Bibliothèque nationale, En français dans le texte, n° 293) - Clouzot, p. 188: "Copies of the second state are quite rare".
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