Charles Baudelaire - Carnet inédit - 1920

Unpublished notebook by Charles Baudelaire - Edition of 120 copies - 1920, La Sirène (HC).

Number of volumes: 1 vol. in-8 bound, with slipcase, under a cardboard sleeve.
Title: Unpublished Notebook by Charles Baudelaire.
Author: after Charles Baudelaire.
Full-size facsimile in black and white and in color, some pages with reproductions of collages.
Copy no. 6 / 120.
Edition: Éditions de La Sirène, Paris.
Year: No date (1920: Original edition)
Size: 20.5 x 13.5 cm
116 pp.

Condition: Book in good condition. Interior clean and fresh. No foxing. A little play in the binding of some cahiers, but it remains solid. Printer's justification on a flyleaf included in the volume. Notebook in very good condition, with a green cloth spine and covers of green and black marbled paper. The corner joints of the slipcase are worn. Cardboard case in satisfactory condition. One printed label pasted to the front board, another to the back. Spines and corners are worn. The headband is split and weakened (see photo).

Facsimile reproduction, published in 1920, of an original Charles Baudelaire notebook covering the period July 1861 / November 1863. Written in ink and pencil, it includes both the poet's literary projects and his accounts and financial balances, which were always in the red. This personal notebook also informs us of his never-kept schedules, the state of his ongoing work, and it also contains some gallant addresses mixed with literary topics to be treated, visits to be made, or letters to be written. Among these lists and accounts, there are some moving resolutions and intimate invocations by the poet to give himself courage in the face of adversity.