Description

RARE FIRST EDITION.
Current edition after 5 copies on Hollande.

SIGNED AUTOGRAPH CONSIGNMENT to the Perpignan poet and writer Frédéric Saisset:

"To Frédéric Saisset
his old friend
Louis Codet
6 July 1908"

Born in Perpignan in 1876, Louis Codet completed his brilliant studies in Paris at the Lycée Condorcet before becoming a Doctor of Law. A dandy painter and poet, he became friends with Guillaume Apollinaire and Marie Laurencin, and contributed to La Revue blanche, à La Vogue and the magazine The Margins. He is published by Charpentier, The Garden Rose (1907) and La Petite Chiquettein 1908. A second lieutenant in the 90th Territorial, he was wounded by a shell on 5 November 1914 at Steenstrate. Transported to Le Havre to be near his wife, he died on 27 December. He left behind several manuscripts, including the truculent César Capéran.

A charming copy, well bound in the period.