Laurent Tailhade - La Feuille à l'envers [édition originale] - 1909

Very rare original edition of this short play by Laurent Tailhade.
Untrimmed proof on standard paper, after a head print of 5 on Japan and 10 on Holland.

Paperback, with printed cover.
Light foxing on the covers, a bent corner, small tear at the spine (missing at the foot of the head), impeccable interior.

Laurent Tailhade, born in Tarbes on April 16, 1854, and died in Combs-la-Ville on November 1, 1919, was a French polemicist, poet, lecturer, libertarian pamphleteer, and Freemason. He used numerous pseudonyms: Azède, El Cachetero, Dom Junipérien, Lorenzaccio, Patte-Pelue, Renzi, Tybalt.
Tailhade is primarily a writer. A leading pamphleteer (he mocks July 14th and its celebrations in The Rumors of Tybalt), but he is also a poet. According to Charles Dantzig in his Selfish Dictionary of French Literature, 'The great Tailhade (...) can be found in the elegiac poems, which have nothing of the plaintive that their name might suggest.'

Laurent Tailhade
The leaf upside down
Paris, Léon Vanier, A. Messein, 1909
in-12 (18 x 11.5cm); 66pp