Les Poésies d'André Walter (posthumous work). Paris, Librairie de l'Art indépendant, 1892.
In-8 [190 x 115] of 40 pp, (1) f. : blue half-box with bradel, smooth spine, untrimmed, first cover preserved (modern binding).
First edition.
Number 1 of 10 copies on Japan paper, signed by Gide with the monogram A.W.
for André Walter.
The justification mentions only 180 copies on tinted vellum, but there are at least two copies on China paper, including the one offered to Pierre Louÿs.
From poet to poet: precious autograph letter signed: to Monsieur Stéphane Mallarmé, // our master // in respectful homage // André Gide
In February 1891, André Gide was introduced by Maurice Barrès to Stéphane Mallarmé; he became one of the regulars at the Mardis de la rue de Rome. When Mallarmé received a copy of Poésies d'André
Walter, he wrote to Gide on May 17, 1892: "Very rare, my friend Gide; this poetic collection of André
Walter. The impression that I perceive, a lot of a harpsichord, small but always tuned; and this double hand, the same one sometimes or of twin dreamers, which comes to remember it, charms me particularly, by its perpetuated duet: so sharp, so familiar. It is necessary to thank you also for the attention which smiles me in the sending of this beautiful first copy; therefore I press you the hand, where you are..."
Copy in modest modern binding. Cover restored. Small wetness to the sending.
Provenance: Stéphane Mallarmé (From the library of Stéphane Mallarmé, Sotheby's Paris, October 15, 2015, n° 47: the copy was then paperback).
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