VIVIEN, Renée. A L’HEURE DES MAINS JOINTES. Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1906. 8vo, 163pp. Illus. wrappers, original glassine dust jacket, sm loss at spine head otherwise near fine in very good glassine. ¶ First Edition, first state wrappers with illustration by Levy-Dhurmer. Anglo-American poet and prose writer, Renée Vivien née Pauline Tarn (1877-1909), worked in French and was the lover of Natalie Barney, later Hélène de Zuylen de Nyevelt to whom she dedicates this work. Her acclaimed poems “mix the joyous sensuality of Sappho with the suffering and unfulfilment of the French symbolists” (Feminist Companion to Literature). The present collection of poems celebrates “…the hour of sisterly sweet hand-in-hand” (Dante Gabriel Rossetti). With extra set of wrappers, titlepage, and “oeuvres de Renée Vivien” leaf laid in. Price: USD 300.00 other currencies   order no. 3373    inquire

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