[Tirage de tête] Baudelaire /Pierre Thomas - Le Spleen de Paris [exemplaire de tête sur Hollande] - 1945

Charles Baudelaire / Pierre Thomas - Le Spleen de Paris (Petits poèmes en prose) - Éditions L. H. S. - 1945

This edition arises from a limited print run; the present volume bears number 71, printed on only 250 copies on Hollande crème des Papeteries de Rives (out of a total restricted edition of 750 numbered copies).

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) is one of the most major and influential French poets of the 19th century, famous in particular for his collection Les Fleurs du mal. An innovator of modern poetry, he explores melancholy, urban modernity and the human condition through a singular aesthetic. Written mainly in the final years of his life and published posthumously in 1869, this work is set in the context of Haussmann’s transformation of Paris, reflecting flânerie and solitude at the heart of the modern metropolis.

Pierre Thomas (1926-2015) is a French artist, draftsman and illustrator known for his contributions to various bibliophile works of the mid-20th century. His pared-down yet expressive style delicately accompanies the melancholic atmospheres of French poetry. Here he lends his art to the Baudelairean universe, visually recreating the urban poetry and the gravitas of the collection.

Le Spleen de Paris is a collection of fifty short prose poems exploring with irony, beauty and melancholy Parisian life, marginality and the contradictions of the human soul.

Paperback under its original dust jacket preserved in a rigid slipcase; the binding and slipcase are in good condition.

The work comprises 149 pages.