LOUYS (Pierre). - Lot 256

Lot n° 256
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1500 - 1800 EUR
LOUYS (Pierre). - Lot 256
LOUYS (Pierre). Aphrodite. Moeurs antiques. Paris, Société du Mercure de France, 1896. In-12, old pink morocco, triple framed with gilt filets and mosaic listel adorning the covers, fleuron at the corners, spine ribbed with the same decoration, gilt edges, lining and endpapers of pink moire, ornate cover preserved, old pink half-maroquin folder with band and small overlays and case (Semet & Plumelle) FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 29 HEADWRITERS, this one (n° 22), one of 20 on Van Gelder hollande (after nine on japon impérial). ATTACHED: A L. A. from Pierre Louÿs, neither dated ("Thursday evening") nor signed, addressed to an anonymous correspondent whom he is on first-name terms (2 pp. small in-8°). In this letter, the writer evokes a curious personal experience of temporal evaluation that he has just made during the night and that he relates to what he feels on the occasion of his work: "When I write literature, I always have the impression that I write it under the dictation of another me, much stronger than I am - but this feeling is difficult to prove, to make understand [...]" Small lateral tear at the center fold of the letter. A VERY NICE COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING.
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