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BANVILLE (Theodore de) - "Odes funambulosques".
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BANVILLE (Theodore de) - "Odes funambulosques".
 1 vol. in-12, half calf with corners, spine ribbed, titled and dated in gold. Original cover preserved.
 Second edition preceded by a letter from Victor Hugo, stanzas by A. Vacquerie and a letter to the author by H. Babou. Excerpt from Victor HUGO's letter to Th. de BANVILLE: "Dear poet, I have just read your Odes. Give them any epithet you like, (the one you have chosen is charming,) but know that you have built there one of the lyrical monuments of the century. (...)". 
 Paris, Michel Lévy frères, booksellers-publishers,1859. 
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