[MANUSCRIT]. DESPAX (Émile). Poems. Circa 1897-1899. In-12, handwritten collection of poems comprising 48 handwritten pages on japon paper and one table page, accompanied by 3 handwritten poems on 7 loose leaves. Bound in purplish half-maroquin, smooth spine, front cover with gilt title, date and initial R.L. Interesting and apparently unpublished collection by Despax, a poet from Dax who was a friend of Apollinaire. He won the Prix Archon-Despérouses twice, for his collection La maison des glycines, published in 1905, his most famous work, and for Maguelone, in 1915, the year he was killed in action at Moussy.