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
(equal to approx. US$633.39* or €494.68* for 22 May 2012)
*Dollar and Euro prices are given as a guideline only. The actual exchange rate may vary according to your payment option.