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FIRST EDITION. 
SIGNED AUTOGRAPH CONSIGNMENT to Robert de Montesquiou :

"To Count Robert de Montesquiou
In gratitude
for so many things written,
and things said that stick.
Abel Hermant

Copy with an autograph letter signed by Abel Hermant addressed to Robert de Montesquiou - red ex-libris stamp in the upper left-hand corner:

" 19 January,
My dear colleague and friend,
Forgive me for not replying to you by return of post: I'm still struggling with the flu, without getting the upper hand. [...] I'll go and see our director as soon as I'm in a fit state to hold a conversation, and I hope that will be before the end of the week. I can tell from your letter how I should talk to him and I'm convinced that everything will work out.. […]

A poet and insolent dandy, a controversial role model for Des Esseintes and a confident friend of Baron Charlus, Robert de Montesquiou also had a flair for words: the nickname "La Belle au bois d'Hermant"The words he used to describe his friend were also used in the memoirs of the Goncourts and Daniel Guerin.

Bound for Robert de Montesquiou with his bookplate on the spine.