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The mirror of Baudelaire

Title

The mirror of Baudelaire / edited by Charles Henri Ford ; with a preface by Paul Eluard and a drawing by Henri Matisse.

Author

Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867

Publication

Norfolk, Connecticut : New Directions, [1942]
Mount Vernon, N.Y. : Golden Eagle Press
©1942

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Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	no. 1-9	Text	Use in library	D-13 9033 no. 1-9	Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.		Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll Ford, CH ZC6 M57 1942	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320
Not available - Please for assistance.		Text	Restricted use	Berg Coll 22-2249	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320
Not available - Please for assistance.		Text	Restricted use	Berg Coll 22-2248	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.		Text	Restricted use	*KSD (Baudelaire, C. Mirror of Baudelaire)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

32 unnumbered pages : portrait; 23 cm

Series Statement

Poet of the month ; 1942

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections. English & French

Alternative Title

Poems.
Miroir de Baudelaire
Baudelaire

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dust jackets – Connecticut – Norfolk – 1942.
Private press books – New York (State) – Mount Vernon – 1942.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – New Caledonia.
Wrappers (Binding).

Note

Portrait of Baudelaire by Matisse on title page and upper wrapper.
"New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin" -- title page verso.
"The Mirror of Baudelaire was designed by James Laughlin and accordingly printed by S. A. Jacobs at his Golden Eagle Press in Mount Vernon, N.Y. Type used is the new Caledonia and the paper is Waterfalls. MCMXLII" -- colophon.

Indexed In (note)

Carruth, H. New Directions reader
Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Language (note)

In French with English translation on facing pages.

Binding (note)

Copy in Berg Coll 22-2248 bound in publishers' plain stiff wrappers; with original dust jacket
Copy in Berg Coll 22-2249 bound in green buckram with title and date stamped on spine in gold between two single rules: "The poet of the month, 1942"; it is bound with the other titles in the series in a variant order; dust jackets retained.

Contents

Ballad for Baudelaire / Charles Henri Ford -- The voyage = Le voyage -- The swan = Le cygne -- A voyage to Cytherea = Un voyage a Cythere.

Call Number

D-13 9033

LCCN

43001512

OCLC

510900

Author

Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867, author.

Title

The mirror of Baudelaire / edited by Charles Henri Ford ; with a preface by Paul Eluard and a drawing by Henri Matisse.

Miroir de Baudelaire

Baudelaire

Publisher

Norfolk, Connecticut : New Directions, [1942]

Manufacturer

Mount Vernon, N.Y. : Golden Eagle Press

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Poet of the month ; 1942

Indexed In:

Carruth, H. New Directions reader, page 224

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 8

Language

In French with English translation on facing pages.

Local Note

Berg Coll. copy: Gift of Elaine Lustig Cohen, 8/4/98

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-2248 bound in publishers' plain stiff wrappers; with original dust jacket NN

Copy in Berg Coll 22-2249 bound in green buckram with title and date stamped on spine in gold between two single rules: "The poet of the month, 1942"; it is bound with the other titles in the series in a variant order; dust jackets retained. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-2248 & Berg Coll 22-2249 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Copy in Berg Coll 22-2248 is one of 12 volumes in a slipcase.

Copy in Berg Coll 22-2249 is bound in a single volume with other titles in the series.

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Added Author

Ford, Charles Henri, editor.

Eluard, Paul, 1895-1952, author of preface.

Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954, illustrator.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997. designer, publisher.

Jacobs, S. A. (Samuel Aiwaz) printer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Golden Eagle Press, printer.

Cohen, Elaine Lustig, 1927- Donor

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Research Call Number

D-13 9033

*KSD (Baudelaire, C. Mirror of Baudelaire)

Berg Coll Ford, CH ZC6 M57 1942

Berg Coll 22-2248

Berg Coll 22-2249

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