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Poète Lahor (Jean) Henri Cazalis Symbolist Poet Collection

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Lahor (Jean)/ Henri Cazalis
 
 
-The illusion
Paris, Librairie Alphonse Lemerre, 1893, In-8°, paperback, 193 pp., fresh interior, nice copy
 
-The glory of nothingness
Paris, Librairie Alphonse Lemerre, 1896, in 8°, paperback, 251 pp., fragile spine, fresh interior
 
-The quatrains of Al-Ghazali
Paris, Librairie Alphonse Lemerre, 1896, in 8°, paperback, 84 pp., small losses on cover, fresh interior
 
-History of Hindu literature
Paris, G. Charpentier, 1888, paperback, in 8°, 379 pp., fragile spine, enriched with a letter from the author
 
-New art, its history, new art foreign to the exhibition…
Paris, Lemerre, 1901, in 8°, 104 pp., split spine
 
-Selected works of Jean Lahor, preceded by a biography
Paris, livre des annales, in 8°, 315 pp., paperback, circa 1909, enriched with a cover page
 
-Jean Lahor, philosophical poetry and social action
 Paris, Librairie Alphonse Lemerre, 1908, in 8°, paperback, missing cover, 102 pp., work partly corrected by Jean Lahor in the margin in pen
 
-In memory of Jean Lahor (Henri Cazalis)
Paris, Jouve , in 8°, paperback, 37 pp., enriched with an inscription on the half-title page
 
-The work of Jean Lahor
Edition du Divan, 1912, paperback, split spine, 43 pp., enriched with a cover page
 
-The city of the future, conference given at the University of the Annals on Mars 4, 1907, 8 pp., in 4°, enriched with a submission from Jean Lahor (2 copies)
 
– The jubilee of M. Pasteur, Paris, 1893, 7 pp., enriched with a message from Jean Lahor
 
We also enclose a handwritten letter from Jean Lahor to the poet Fernand Gregh, 6 autograph manuscript sheets, an amateur photograph by Henri Cazalis as well as some press cuttings, the little Parisian of May 25, 1905, the emancipation of February 1907

Jean Lahor
 
Henri Cazalis, born in Cormeilles-en-Parisis (Val-d’Oise) THE 9 Mars 1840 and died at Geneva (Swiss) THE 1er July 1909, is a doctor And poet symbolist French. He is known under the pseudonym John Caselli and, above all, Jean Lahor.
Respected doctor, his patients Maupassant And Verlaine.
Poet symbolist attracted by images of death, he combined literature and a medical career. A eugenicist, he spoke out in his work entitled « Science and marriage » for the adoption of a law which would prohibit people suffering from a hereditary disease from marrying.
Nicknamed “the Hindu of Contemporary Parnassus» (in view of his penchant for oriental thought and mysticism), he frequents the Parnassians, binds with Mallarmé and form with Sully-Prudhomme the Society for the Protection of Landscapes and Aesthetics of France.
He is best known for his collections of poetry The Book of Nothingness And The Illusion.
L’French Academy awards him the Archon-Desperouses price in 1889 and the Vitet price in 1900. He is buried at Ferney-Voltaire
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-The city of the future, conference given at the University of the Annals on Mars 4, 1907, 8 pp., in 4°, enriched with a submission from Jean Lahor (2 copies) We also enclose a handwritten letter from Jean Lahor to the poet Fernand Gregh, 6 autograph manuscript sheets, an amateur photograph by Henri Cazalis as well as some press cuttings, the little Parisian of May 25, 1905, the emancipation of February 1907 Poet symbolist attracted by images of death, he combined literature and a medical career. A eugenicist, he spoke out in his work entitled « Science and marriage » for the adoption of a law which would prohibit people suffering from a hereditary disease from marrying. Nicknamed “the Hindu of Contemporary Parnassus» (in view of his penchant for oriental thought and mysticism), he frequents