Sotheby's (Paris)

(27 cm), 232 pp., illustrations (most in colour). 383 lots. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - The library of Mallarmé, bequeathed to his daughter Geneviève in 1898. The top lots were the various stages of the manuscript and first printed version of Un Coup de Dés jamais n’abolira le Hasard (these five lots realised altogether €1,158,000). A large-format photograph by Edgar Degas of Mallarmé and Auguste Renoir realised €204,600. Preface “La bibliothèque idéale de Stéphane Mallarmé” by Bertrand Marchal. ¶ Unmarked copy.