DESBORDES-VALMORE, Marceline.

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DESBORDES-VALMORE, Marceline.
Poetry, with a notice by M. Sainte-Beuve. Paris, Béthune et Plon pour Charpentier, 1842. In-12 (173 x 112 mm) de 2 ff.n.ch., VIII, 383 pp.; half red chagrin, spine ribbed and ornamented, spine glued (contemporary binding). First edition of this anthology. Composed by Sainte-Beuve, it praises Marceline Desbordes-Valmore in its preface and places her among the greatest poets. This last collection of poems, before the posthumous collection of 1860, contains: Idylls, Elegies, Romances, Contes, Pleurs et pauvres fleurs, as well as Aux petits enfants, nearly two hundred pieces. A fine copy, with, as a bookmark, a pretty canivet of the period showing a heart from which a flower springs. Carteret, I, 212.
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