visions of an opiomane
BAUDELAIRE, Charles.
Un mangeur d'opium.
Paris: La Mandragore, 1945.
Folio (260 × 335 mm.), pp. 125. Illustrated throughout with coloured woodcuts. Decorative wrappers housed in publisher's box. The fragile box worn and split at edges, the book a fine copy.
First edition thus. Of a total edition of 170 copies, this is one of 16 copies with an additional suite of plates and one original illustration. Un mangeur d'opium is an extract from Des Paradis Artificiels and is illustrated throughout with coloured woodcuts by Leon Masson.
£400.00
US$794.32*
* Given as a guide only. Based on an exchange rate of £1 = US$1.985799 for the day 25 July 2008 but liable to fluctuate.
25 July 2008