LA MORT POSTHUME (FOUILLES D’ANTINOE). 1917. ONE OF 202 COPIES. SIGNED.

N.p.: self-published, 1917

19 x 19.5cm. 40pp printed recto only. Original wrappers in printed paperfolded covers. First edition of the author’s first book. One of 150 numbered examples on velin blanc de Holland from a total edition of 202. This copy signed on the last page.

Heine was the acknowledged ‘inventor of Sade’ in the 20th Century, owing to his passionate and tireless scholarly searching out and subsequent re contextualization of the latter’s oeuvre. Anecdotally, Heine had made a pact of sorts with Apollinaire to carry out a similar project. However, the poet’s premature death left Heine to his own devices. Throughout the 20’s & 30’s (beyond the aforementioned Sadean pursuits), Heine participated in Surrealist group activities and those of the short-lived ‘Contre-Attaque’ faction. Some minor use to wrappers and intermittent internal foxing, else a very good+ example. Rare.