Harold Nicolson — Paul Verlaine

Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1921. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first US edition of this biography of French poet Paul-Marie Verlaine from Sir Harold George Nicolson. First US edition. Scarce edition. A biography of Paul-Marie Verlaine, a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement and considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siecle in international and French poetry. With extracts of his poetry throughout. Written by Sir Harold George Nicolson, a British politician, writer, broadcaster and gardener who was the husband of Vita Sackville-West. Previously held in the library of Scofield Thayer, a wealthy American poet and publisher, best known for his art collection which is now housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with minor rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the extremities. with the odd small mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning to the endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .