Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Augustine Birrell
Poetry
Ronsard’s Sonnets
This is copy no. IV of a group of 15 copies (designated by roman numerals I through XV) set aside for the illustrator, André Dunoyer de Segonzac, beyond the stated limited printing of 195 numbered copies, of Quelques Sonnets de Ronsard, in its original slipcase, with an inscription to Antoinette Schulte, signed by Dunoyer de Segonzac.
Three Baudelaire Poems
This is a fine copy, number 228 from an edition of 300, published by the Limited Editions Club in 1997, of three poems from Charles Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du Mal” with an afterword by Jean Leymarie. Four photos, by Henri Cartier-Bresson, whose signature is on the limitation page, accompany the poems.
Portrait de l’Oiseau
This is the January, 1965 Club du Poème (Genèvè) publication of the Claude Aveline (Evgen Avtsine) and Ossip Zadkine collaboration, “Portrait de l’Oiseau-Qui-N’Existe-Pas & Autre Poèmes”, with Aveline poetry, printed by Fequet et Baudier and 18 lithographs by Zadkine, printed by Mourlot frères.