Pierre LOTI (1850-1923) 5 volumes with signed autograph dispatches; in-12, half-green vellum boards (foxing). Aziyadé (Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1879); dispatch: "to Madame Lee Childe Pierre Loti". Le Roman d'un spahi, second edition (Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1882); mailing: "to Madame Lee Childe Pierre Loti". Les Trois Dames de la Kasbah, oriental tale (Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1884); mailing: "to Madame B. Lee Childe en tout petit hommage de Pierre Loti Février 84". Le Mariage de Loti, Rarahu, seventh edition (Paris, Calmann-Lévy,1884); mailing: "to Madame Lee Childe Très-affectueusement Pierre Loti". Pêcheur d'Islande, novel, fifth edition (Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1886); mailing: "à Monsieur E. Lee Childe témoignage de respectueux attachement Pierre Loti"; press clipping pasted at the head of an article by Robert de Flers (damaged paperback). Mon Frère Yves (Paris, Calmann Levy, 1883); mailing: "to Madame Lee Childe Pierre Loti". Provenance: Château du Perthuis. Note: Blanche's family and friendship with Valentine de Laborde brought her into close contact with the literary circles around Mérimée in the second half of the 19th century. She herself published several texts, notably in the Revue des Deux Mondes, including Impressions de Voyage, 1882, Le général Robert E. Lee (1873) and Un Hiver au Caire, Journal de voyage en Egypte, 1883, published by Calmann Lévy. It was her novelistic correspondence with Pierre Loti that made her a part of literary history. Edited by Hervé Duchêne in 2022 (Blanche Lee Childe, Pierre Loti, Ah! cher Loti, croyez-moi, le Masque avait du bon. Correspondance (Le Passeur)), this epistolary exchange between a mysterious oriental masked stranger ("Oirda, la Rose") and a young sailor-writer leads to a frank friendship. Blanche even provided the proofreading for Mon frère Yves and, after her tragic death, was the subject of a tribute to the memory of Madame Lee Childe as an introduction to Propos d'exil in 1887 (lot 75).