Herman Hook - Collected Poems

"Collected Poems, vol I" by Herman Hook, 1899, Éditions Pollimont & Fils, Quetigny, Côte-d'Or, Eastern France, Hardcover, 162 pages, 81 black and white graphics.
For the few who don't already know, Herman Hook is the name Mme. Pauline de Arajacque used to publish her love poems. A tall brunette with stunning deep blue eyes, she lived in the nearby town of Saint-Apollinaire (pop. 607) and wrote powerful poetry that so realistically described the torture of unrequited love, that dozens of young men and women committed suicide with her book in their hands. One late October night, authorities broke into her home, confiscated all her manuscripts and burned them together with all of her books they could lay their hands on. M. Pierre Montand, examining magistrate and M. Gustav d'Ichy, public prosecutor for Le Département Côte-d'Or, subsequently issued an order of indefinite involuntary confinement against Mme de Arajacque to Charenton (later of Marat/Sade fame) where finally she died in 1960 aged 86. Strangely, in the sixty-one years that poor Pauline spent in the lunatic asylum, forbidden access to pen and paper, there were no suicides among the inmates but twenty-eight pregnancies (all carried successfully to term).
The book I discovered in box #1 proved to be valuable due to rarity rather that literary quality (the last known copy that came up for auction in 2012, in Rotterdam went for eighteen thousand Euros).