Moral Tales
New Directions, 1985. 8vo, purple cloth, gilt titles, 160pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (17.95) moderate toned to panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The 1887 short story collection Moralites legendaires by the French Decadent and symbolist writer Jules Laforgue. The stories recycle dramatic and literary archetypes in a parodical style and classical concentration typical of the 1880s Decadent movement. A nearly fine copy in mylar.
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