LE CENTAURE - Lot 191

LE CENTAURE Quarterly collection of Literature and Art 2 volumes: 1896. Paris, Editor-Administrator: Henri Albert, Editor-Manager: Jean de Tinan. Texts by Henri Albert, André Gide, A.-Ferdinand Herold, André Lebey, Pierre Louÿs, Henri de Régnier, Jean de Tinan, Paul Valéry (pre-original of La Soirée avec monsieur Teste). Illustrations (lithographs, etchings or drypoints) by L. Anquetin, Albert Besnard, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Charles Conder, Maxime Dethomas, Henri Héran, Charles Léandre, Gustave Leheutre, Charles Maurin, Armand Point, Paul Ranson, Félicien Rops. 2 vol. in-4 bound (publisher's full green percaline). Handwritten notes by Vasseur (4 ff.). Joint: In Volume I: - The manuscript of two poems by Paul Valéry: "Été" and "Vue"; - 1 long letter (in facsimile) from Léon-Paul Fargue in which the Centaur is mentioned. Volume II bears this autograph dispatch on the title page of La Soirée avec monsieur Teste: "Exemplaire de M. Gérard Gailly que je puis signer aujourd'hui en toutes lettres: Paul Valéry. "Volume II is unbound.