Sylvie: Souvenirs du Valois by Gérard de Nerval (Fr.)

Paris. Éditions Steff. 1950 (1853). Ed. 211/850. Softcover in paper jacket. Book Condition: Near Fine, tanning and shelf wear over time. Jacket Condition: Near Fine but delicate, tanning and shelf wear over time. 82pp. (ill. in b/w).A novella of unrequited, impossible, and abandoned loves by French Romanticist Gérard de Nerval. The piece was a favorite of André Breton, Marcel Proust, and other influential minds of the late nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries. Preface by Pierre Josserand.Drawings by Georges Pavis. Text in French.