VIGNY (Alfred de). La Bouteille à la mer poem. Advice to an unknown young man. Paris: imprimerie de J. Claye et Cie, 1854. - Paperback in-8demi-percaline brown, smooth spine, front cover preserved (period binding). Very rare first edition, taken from the "Revue des deux mondes" of February 1, 1854. Copy of Blanche Lee Childe, artist and woman of letters, eldest daughter of sculptor Henry de Triqueti, who married banker François Delessert in the first marriage and Edward Lee Childe in the second, nephew of the famous Southern general Robert Lee. An active supporter of Pierre Loti, with whom she maintained a romantic correspondence, she also published, like Vigny, in the "Revue des deux mondes". On the cover is this signed autograph letter: "To Madame Childe // as a token of my sincere // attachment // to Alfred de Vigny". Some scattered foxing. Provenance: Edward and Blanche Lee Childe, with bookplate. Also by the same author: - Les Consultations du Docteur-Noir. STELLO, ... Première Consultation. Paris : H. Delloye, V. Lecou, 1838. - In-8, dark green half-chagrin, gilt fillets, spine decorated with false nerves, speckled edges (period binding). New edition forming volume VII of the Delloye-Lecou collective edition. Copy with the author's autograph signature on the first white endpaper, dated May 12, 1850. Spine faded. Scattered foxing. Provenance: Edward and Blanche Lee Childe, with bookplate.