Modern French Literature

Déroulède, Paul. Chants du Paysan. Paris: Calman Levy, 1894. 8vo, uncut, no. 9 of 50 copies on holland paper; title and limitation page lightly browned, publisher's orange printed wrappers, in a blue half-morocco slipcase. Autograph final stanza of his poem Ronde (no. 18 in this collection) signed "Déroulède 1907" on front flyleaf. Bookplate of John Quinn laid in. — Guilbert, Yvette. La Vedette. Paris: H. Simonis Empis, 1902. 8vo, uncut; lightly browned, publisher's printed wrappers, in a blue half-morocco slipcase; upper hinge detached, inscribed by the author: "à Emile Zola! avec mon admiration pour l'artiste, et ma sympathie admirative aussi pour l'homme, Yvette". Bookplate of John Quinn laid in. — Barrès, Maurice. L'Ennemi des Lois. Paris: Perrin & Cie., 1893. 8vo, unopened, publisher's printed wrappers; bottom inner corner of upper wrapper torn without loss, soiled, in a blue half-morocco slipcase. Inscribed by the author on the half-title in 1906. Bookplate of John Quinn. — Mirbeau, Octave. Sébastien Roch, Roman de Moeurs. Paris: G. Charpentier & Cie., 1890. 8vo, uncut; somewhat browned, publisher's printed yellow wrappers; soiled, upper wrapper detached, in a blue half-morocco slipcase. Inscribed by the author on the half-title: "à Emile Darce trés sympathiquement Octave Mirbeau." Bookplate of John Quinn laid in. — Rodenbach, Georges. L'Hiver Mondain, illustré de deux croquis de Jan Van Beers. Brussels: chez Henry Kistemaeckers, [1884]. 8vo, uncut, "no. 10 japon" written on limitation page facing title with prior inscription effaced, publisher's cream printed pictorial wrapper; soiled, upper hinge torn, in a blue half-morocco slipcase. Inscribed by the author: "à Felicien Champsaur, au brillant moderniste. En bon souvenir des 'Hydropathes' et de Paris abordé ensemble. Cordialement, Georges Rodenbach." Bookplate of John Quinn laid in. — plus 10 other works in 11 volumes. In all, 15 works in 16 volumes.

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