Description
For sale is a Near Fine Bilingual paperback edition, first printing of La Fanfarlo by Charles Baudelaire and translated by Greg Boyd. Paperback Edition unstated, 1986 Donald S. Ellis. First Printing with no subsequent printing. Bilingual edition.
The exterior of the paperback edition is in Near Fine condition, with clean, bright covers with no creases, mild surface wear, strong title on a square spine, clean page blocks, a tight binding with no creases, lightly rubbed spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rounded corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition, with no marks, inscriptions, or any other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
Ten years before Baudelaire published his masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil, the great poet penned the only prose fiction of his career: La Fanfarlo. The novella describes the torrid real-life affair the poet had with Jean Duval, a dancer whose beauty and sexuality Baudelaire came to obsess over. The outcome is a work of raw emotional power and a clear distillation of the Parisian’s poetic genius. As Baudelaire himself said, “Always be a poet, even in prose.”
Ships promptly in manila Envelope with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
