RICTUS (Jehan). - Lot 106

RICTUS (Jehan). .. Le Cœur populaire. Poems, grievances, ballads, complaints, laments, tales, songs of misery and love. En Langue Populaire (1900-1913). Paris: Eugène Rey, 1914 - In-8, 202 x 153: portrait, (pp. 1-4), (6 ff.), pp. (5)-222, (1 f.), printed cover. Garnet half-chagrin, ribbed spine, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (Honnelaître). First edition of this collection, printed in an edition of 1,125 copies. Copy on publisher's wove paper, including the very fine frontispiece portrait of the author by STEINLEN, etched on laid paper, and the 3 facsimiles of letters to the author by Albert Samain and Stéphane Mallarmé, normally reserved for luxury paper. EXEMPLAIRE OF THE SYMBOLIST POET AND LITERARY CRITIC ROBERT DE SOUZA (1864-1946), enriched by this autograph letter signed by the author on the false title Pour Robert de Souza // Souvenir de son volume // " la Poésie populaire " // et cordial hommage, // Jehan Rictus // (Mars 1914) A good copy bound by Claude Honnelaître. Spine slightly faded.