Charles Baudelaire - Carnet inédit - 1920

Unpublished notebook by Charles Baudelaire - 120 copies printed - 1920, La Sirène (EO).

Number of volumes: 1 vol. in-8 bound, with case, under a cardboard slipcase.
Title: Unpublished notebook by Charles Baudelaire.
Author: after Charles Baudelaire.
Full-page 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 looseness in the binding of some gatherings, but remains solid. Printer's justification of the edition 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 corners of the slipcase are worn. Cardboard sleeve in satisfactory condition. One printed label pasted to the top cover, another on the back. Edges and corners are worn. The head cap is split and weakened (see photo).

Facsimile reproduction, published in 1920, of an original Charles Baudelaire notebook covering the period July 1861 to November 1863. Written in ink and pencil, it contains both the poet's literary projects and his always-deficit financial accounts and ledgers. 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.

Amid these lists and accounts, one finds a few touching resolutions and intimate invocations by the poet to give himself courage in the face of adversity.