Laboccetta Mario Illustrator (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 207 pages, 4to. Illustrated by Mario Laboccetta. No DJ. Bound in full burgundy leather boards with gilt lettering along spine and front cover, five raised bands along spine. Shelfwear: scuffing along edges and covers, light spine fade, tanned page leafs, previous owner's name and place in black ink on second page leaf. Tight binding. Volume is in Very Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Original pictorial cloth, faded red topstain. Mild foxing, mostly to first/last pages. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is price clipped, sunned, nicked, with internal tape repairs to spine ends. Color illustrations. ; quarto; 207 pages.

Paris : Gründ, [1947]. Large octavo (240 x 190 mm), slightly later gilt-blocked and decorated calf, spine with gilt rule and lettering (a trifle scuffed); marbled endpapers; original illustrated stiff-card wrappers bound in, pp. 254, [1 colophon]; original French text;illustrated with six striking full-page colour plates by Mario Laboccetta; superb throughout, a fine copy. When it was first published in 1857, Baudelaire'sLes fleurs du malcaused a major scandal. Six of the most decadent and erotic poems contained in the volume were deemed immoral and were immediately censored, the ban on their publication in France remaining in place right up until 1949. However, Les fleurs du malhas come to be recognised as one of the most important collections of poetry ever published: not only did it have an enormous influence on Symbolism and Modernism, but its language and imagery have continued to cast their spell over legions of writers, musicians and artists up to the present day.