Author: Baudelaire, Charles and Jacques Crepet, et al.
Title: Correspondance Generale: Complete Set
Description: Paris, Louis Conard, 1953. Paperback. Off-white wraps with navy blue lettering; 6 volumes; many pages unopened; portrait. Text in French. "This work will contain, brought together for the first time, all of Baudelaire's letters that have reached us - those which appeared in previous collections as well as those which remained scattered in newspapers or magazines; those which, to our knowledge, were still sleeping in the drawers of the collections like those whose autograph catalogs only provided a fragment or an analysis, - all, without distinction of origin, recipient or recipient. object, without exceptions or retrenchments, in extenso, as much as it depended on us. It is now eighty years since Baudelaire died, his glory undoubtedly places him beyond all reach, and his irascibility is too well known to all for the verbal violence to which he sometimes indulged to be able to cause any harm to the memory of third parties. which they took to task. There was therefore no longer any valid reason not to let the document speak freely." -- translated from WorldCat. Good+ (Wraps have moderate edgewear with some light smudging/foxing/scuffing; some covers are starting; textblock edges are lightly toned with some foxing and smudging; interiors are very clean with the occasional smudge or foxing.) .

Keywords: Biography / Autobiography, Charles Baudelaire ; Baudelaire, Charles ; ;


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