"Gourmont - A Virginal Heart. Jonquières Et Cie, 1923. Illustrated By SimÉon."
GOURMONT (Rémy de) - A Virginal Heart. Paris, Jonquières and Co., 1923; in-8, II-248 pp., paperback, folded cover. Remy de Gourmont was a very brilliant writer and literary critic, friend of Villiers De l'Isle Adam, Huysmans, Mallarmé and Mirbeau. Disfigured by lupus, he remained cloistered at home writing and only left his home to go to his publisher, the Mercure de France. Collection "The beautiful novels". Numbered copy on Rives vellum. Illustrated with woodblock drawings by Simeon. Very good state.