Gérard de Nerval
Les Filles Du Feu / The Daughters Of Fire
D. Giraud
1854
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A first edition of Les Filles Du Feu (The Daughters Of Fire).
- Gérard De Nerval [Gérard Labrunie] (French).
- Paris: D. Giraud, 1854.
- Octavo.
- 333 pages.
- Text is in French.
- Quarter-bound in red leather with marbled paper boards, spine with gilt lettering.
Gérard De Nerval (1808-1855) was the pen name of Gérard Labrunie, a French writer, poet, translator, and essayist. He was a major figure in French romanticism best known for his novellas and poems, including the collection Les Filles du feu (English: The Daughters of Fire).
This volume includes the novella Sylvie and Les Chimères (The Chimeras), a sequence of twelve sonnets, including the famous poem "El Desdichado." De Nerval influenced several notable authors and artists, including Charles Baudelaire, the Symbolist poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, and the Surrealists, such as André Breton. He also influenced his readers, introducing them to German Romantic authors like Schiller and Goethe. De Nerval's death by suicide in 1855 was immortalized by Gustave Doré's La Rue de la Vielle Lanterne.
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GoodMild general shelf wear, including rubbing to hinges and edges of boards with slight material loss.
Fading to marbled dyed top.
Age-toning and occasional foxing to interior.
Signed by previous owner in pencil to second front free endpaper.
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