SAINT-POL-ROUX. Lot n° 9

The Malignant Statue. The resting places of the procession. Second volume. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT. 5 large pages 36 x 22 cm folded in two and mounted on tabs in a volume in-4, bound in yellow ochre half-percaline with corners, black title page, fleuron on the spine, (period binding signed Carayon). "La statue maligne", prose poem dedicated to Paul Adam was published in La Revue Blanche, n° 26, December 1893. [Then reprinted in Les Reposoirs de la procession tome III, Paris, Mercure de France, 1907, and not in tome II as indicated in the manuscript]. Rubbed title page. Attached : - SAINT-POL-ROUX. Autograph letter signed to Sanders Pierron. 4 pages in-8; Château d'Arville, Poix-Saint Hubert, Sunday, July 21, 1895, in black ink, envelope kept. Request for an issue of the magazine Le Coq rouge. In the forest of the Ardennes where I have been for a fortnight and for a few months it is easy for me to get strawberries and raspberries but not, as you can guess, this fragrant of audacity and future, your review: Le Coq rouge (...) Excuse me for not having brought you myself the proofs of the Torch but I have been so ragged and so sad in this sacred city of Brussels (...) that not to show up was preferable: I was not myself. Who among us does not have the coquetry to hide in the mauve hours? - SAINT-POL-ROUX. The black soul of the white prior. Paris, editions of the Mercure de France, 1893, in-8, paperback, 120 pages. First edition printed at 320 copies. One of the 300 copies on "papier de luxe".