*Stéphane MALLARMÉ]. - Lot 108

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*Stéphane MALLARMÉ]. - Lot 108
*Stéphane MALLARMÉ]. Le Tombeau de Mallarmé. 2 family copies. - Emmanuel SIGNORET. [Cover:] Le Tombeau de Stéphane Mallarmé. Bibliothèque du Saint-Graal (n°2), 1899; in-8 br. blue silk cordonnet. First edition published by Calixte Toesca and offered to the French Nation by the town of Puget-Théniers. No. 1 was Liturgies intimes by P. Verlaine in 1892. Signed autograph letter in violet ink: "à Madame Stéphane Mallarmé, à Mademoiselle Geneviève Mallarmé / Pieusement / Emmanuel Signoret / 17 rue Assalit à Nice". Signoret addressed his versified Tombeau to the Académie française "to invite it to a belated but complete Justice towards the Master I sing"... Several autogr. corrections Unclipped, corner nicked, possibly in need of binding. - Henry CHARPENTIER. Le Tombeau de Stéphane Mallarmé. Poem. With a frontispiece [sonnet] by Guy Robert du Costal. Paris, [chez l'auteur], 1910 (October 31, 1909); in-4 br. First edition limited to 50 copies h.c. One of the top 10 on Japon, no. 7 in blue ink, initialled by the poet. Autogr. signed letter: "d'un poète ni bon ni haut hommage au docteur Bonniot Henry Charpentier February 28, 1925". It was thanks to this collection that Geneviève's husband, Dr. Edmond Bonniot, thought of Henry Charpentier as Mallarmé's executor.
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