[French literature. Signed] Catulle Mendès. Les folies amoureuses

Paris, Dentu, 1877. 1st. ed. Paper covers. 8vo. With inscription: Mendès to Anatole France on French title-p.

(2) Catulle Mendès. Le fin du fin, ou conseils à un jeune homme qui se destine à l'amour. Paris, Marpon & Flammarion, 1885. 1st ed. Frontispiece by A. Lalauze. Rebound with original cover preserved in half leather, gilt lettering and ornament on spine, top edge gilt. Sm. 8vo. (3) Parisiens, parts I, VI-X in one vol. Paris, 1883. With 6 frontispieces by Fern. Besnier. Half leather. sm. 8vo. -and 3 more by Mendès. *'Of all the preachers of misfortune, Mendes was certainly the most voluminous and the blackest.' (Praz, Romantic Agony). (total 6)