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1989027036Carmel California: Wah Ming Chang 1989. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Color Plates Throughout. 87 Pp. Nearly New. Inscribed By Chang To His Friend California Artist Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano And His Wife Emmie And Also Signed By Glen Chang. With A Two Page Card From The Changs To Napolitano And His Wife Discussing Health Their Recent Meeting Etc. Chang Protege Of His Guardian Blanding Sloan Had A Successful Career As An Artist And Motion Picture Designer Most Remembered For His Work On Star Trek But Active Over A Long Career With Sloan And Individually. <br/> <br/> Wah Ming Chang paperback
1940021803New York City: Federal Theatre Project 1940. Original Manuscript . Wrappers / Metal. Very Good. Original manuscript typed carbon. Ownership note of R Robert H. Breen on cover label and title page. Post-its from Chicago and Hollywood actor Arthur H Peterson Jr. noting that it was sent to him by "him" in 1940. The play does not appear in the Prouty archives at George Mason University but apparently there is a copy at the NYPL and another at Kent State. Conkle wrote for the Federal Theatre Project. Peterson wrote and also directed The Little Theatre off Bughouse Square in Chicago as producer and director. <br/> <br/> [Federal Theatre Project] unknown
1970031079New Delhi: Orient Longmans 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good /Good. Viii 176 Pp. Book With Slight Wear Inscribed By Two Of The Editors Daughters Of The Subject To American Film Actress Marie Windsor And Her Husband Jack Hupp "With Our Love Because You Both Love Mummy". Dust Jacket With Light Wear Small Losses At Corners. <br/> <br/> Orient Longmans hardcover
19075212bx113<p>Inscribed and signed by the author: "For a dear little unknown but not always to stay so friend Laura W. Backus with the best wishes for her future from Anne Warner French. Thanksgiving 1907". VG- in Brown cloth gilt. Outer wear and spotting old dampstains in the gutter affecting margins only. 4 glossy b/w plates. 2p publisher's ads. 8" tall; 323 pages; Signed by Author .</p> Little, Brown hardcover
1933004364Frontier Publishers 1933. Soft cover. Good. Signed by Authors. Autographed on first page under his photo "To Farm and Ranch with Best Wishes Gene Autry". Stapled. No other marks or writings pages clean binding sound. Has water spot on front bottom corner does not affect interior print. Rhymes of the range is a short story and then includes a number of cowboy songs with notes and lyrics. XX Frontier Publishers paperback
197000JT65Paris: None 1970. Rare archive lot of 18 typed letters signed dated Paris 17th of March 1970 all identical save for the signatures and in most cases handwritten names that grace these petitions to save the Olympia Music Hall in Paris. Artists names include; Sabrina Guegan Pierre Bacmialoni Michele Sennet Nicole Villano Maurice C'eutat Trebier Jean Pierre Delhomme Berr Marcel Hrasko Icardi Sylvie Vartan Raymond Gimenes Joullie Brigitte Armand Cavallaro Amador Heliose Charles Verstraete and Emile Vilain. Autograph. Manuscript. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. None Paperback
1976004421Devin-Adair 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Signed by Authors. 1st Printing SIGNED on front end paper "Best Regards" Gary Allen. First Printing stated. Has private library envelope on front end paper No other marks or writings pages bright and clean binding sound. Dust jacket unclipped light wear to spine ends and corners light shelf wear. Has slip enclosed around book "This book Personally Autographed by the Author. American Opinion Bookstores." Devin-Adair hardcover
1923008436Philadelphia: J B Lippincott Co. Second Edition Revised. Hard cover in original cloth. Published Philadelphia: J B Lippincott Co. 1923 sixth printing. 8vo. 312pp. with 25 illustrations and 35 diagrams frontis. Gold cloth with blue titles and cover design. Inscribed by author on flyleaf: "Best wishes for success on 'the downward path!' Paul L. Anderson January 21 1933." Gentle foxing along edges of page block light soil to cloth sweating line along top edge of frontis and its tissue guard. Else very good plus pages clean unmarked binding tight. . Very Good Plus. Hard. 1923. J B Lippincott Co unknown
19306007May 2 1930. Good. Measures approximately 14 x 17.5 inches with the embossed seal of the Post Office Department a bit soiled with upturned corners. <br/><br/>Appointing William W. Schmidt as Postmaster of Wanatah LaPorte County Indiana. unknown
194186762Paris 1941. Fine. Paris s. d. ca 1941 14 x 15.50 cm une page sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by sculptor André Abbal 13 lines in black ink on a double sheet. Traces of folding inherent to postal dispatch. The sculptor discusses his various productions: ""I am now certain that my Tarn et Garonne will not return to the workshop. With peace of mind on this front I will work hard on other things that interest me greatly."" André Abbal student of Alexandre Falguière is renowned for his direct-carved stone sculptures. unknown
197487999s. l.: s. n. 1974. Fine. s. n. s. l. 27 Novembre 1974 15 x 10 cm une feuille Manuscript postcard enhanced with André Malraux's signature written from Bombay to their friends Minka and Karl Hans Strauss 13 lines in blue ballpoint pen. The postcard shows a reproduction of Hindu sculpture. ""Chers amis que c'était beau ! Nous vous embrassons affectueusement Sophie."" ""Dear friends how beautiful it was! We embrace you affectionately Sophie."" Separated from his wife Madeleine at the end of the 1960s André Malraux began a second relationship with the writer Louise de Vilmorin and moved in with her at the Vilmorin château in Verrières-le-Buisson. After her death on December 26 1969 André Malraux continued to live at the château with Louise's niece Sophie de Vilmorin who became his last companion and cared for him until his death on November 23 1976. s. n. unknown
197967036Paris 1979. Fine. Paris 6 avril 1979 13.50 x 21 cm 2 feuillets Autograph letter signed by Antoine Compagnon addressed to Georges Raillard. Two pages on two sheets written in black ink. Envelope included. Interesting letter in which Compagnon affirms that ""il y a encore moyen d'écrire. C'est la question actuelle qui se pose à moi au lendemain de la parution du récit"" ""there is still a way to write. This is the current question facing me the day after the story was published"". He also mentions Maurice Nadeau and other mutual university acquaintances. unknown
199483085Rio de Janeiro 1994. Fine. Rio de Janeiro 7 juillet 1994 21 x 28 cm une feuille une enveloppe Handwritten letter dated and signed entirely written in Brazilian Portuguese from writer Antonio Torres addressed to the translator of his works into French Alice Raillard from Rio 17 lines in black ink. Fold marks inherent to mailing envelope included. A press clipping included by Antonio Torres and attached with a paper clip which has left a shadow on the handwritten letter. unknown
195783328s. l.: S. n. 1957. Fine. S. n. s. l. 17 juillet 1957 20.50 x 27 cm une page une enveloppe Autograph letter signed by Colonel Rémy 10 lines written in blue ink from the seaside resort of Cascais envelope included addressed to Henri Petit author of a favorable review of the latest work entitled ""Fatima"" by the great resistance fighter recently published and entitled ""Fatima"" ""Merci cher ami pour les lignes comme toujours si bienveillantes - que vous avez eu la gentillesse de consacrer à mon ""Fatima"" et que je trouve ici en rentrant de France. Bonnes vacances ! Croyez-moi votre reconnaissant et dévoué Rémy."" ""Thank you dear friend for the lines as always so benevolent - which you were kind enough to devote to my ""Fatima"" and which I find here upon returning from France. Happy holidays! Believe me your grateful and devoted Rémy."" Fold marks inherent to posting. S. n. unknown
192886536Paris: S. n. 1928. Fine. S. n. Paris 19 Août Juillet 1928 13.50 x 21 cm une feuille une enveloppe Autograph letter dated and signed by Franz Hellens addressed to André Malraux 21 lines in black ink. Fold marks inherent to postal handling. We include an envelope addressed to Franz Hellens and written by André Malraux which probably contained the response to our letter. Franz Hellens responds to a request for information made by André Malraux: ""Je n'ai pas oublié le renseignement que vous m'avez prié de vous procurer au sujet du Voyage au Congo. Voici la réponse que j'ai reçu de la compagnie belge maritime du Congo. Ce n'était pas du tout ce que j'avais demandé"" ""I have not forgotten the information you asked me to obtain regarding the Journey to Congo. Here is the response I received from the Belgian maritime company of Congo. It was not at all what I had requested"" and will attempt to learn more in order to help his friend: ""Je vais écrire autre part et tâcher d'obtenir une réponse précise à ma question. Patientez donc quelques jours encore."" ""I will write elsewhere and try to obtain a precise answer to my question. Please wait a few more days."" Franz Hellens mentions the forthcoming publication at Grasset of his next work: ""Brun m'a envoyé copie signée du contrat. Il m'écrit que le livre pourra paraître en janvier prochain. J'aurai voulu octobre mais enfin."" ""Brun sent me a signed copy of the contract. He writes to me that the book will be able to appear next January. I would have wanted October but well."" and inquires about André Malraux's book in progress: ""Et vos Conquérants Je suis bien impatient de lire le tout."" ""And your Conquerors I am quite eager to read it all."" S. n. unknown
1949644241949. Fine. 19 juin 1949 13.50 x 21 cm un feuillet Autograph letter signed by Henry de Montherlant to Robert Pignarre dated June 19 1949 15 lines in blue ink envelope attached. Folds inherent to the enveloping. Warm letter of thanks to professor Robert Pignarre following a conference at the Alliance française on his work: "" I have tasted the seriousness and objectivity ."" unknown
194562650Paris 1945. Fine. Paris n.d. circa 1945 13.60 x 21 cm une page sur une feuille Autograph letter signed by Jean Paulhan to an author written in black ink. Date at the top of the letter signature at the bottom of the letter. NRF paper. Central fold caused by mailing. Jean Paulhan wrote this letter to thank his correspondent for his suggestion. He informs him that he has sent it to the Director of French Letters Claude Morgan. unknown
199081162s. l.: S. n. 1990. Fine. S. n. s. l. s. d. circa 1990 11 x 7.50 cm une feuille Printed visiting card of Jorge Amado on which he has added a few words probably for his friend and translator of his works into French Alice Raillard: ""Com un abraza cordial do Jorge Amado."" Handsome copy. S. n. unknown
199579512Fortaleza 1995. Fine. Fortaleza 29 Novembre 1995 15 x 10.50 cm une carte postale Autograph postcard dated and signed with 8 lines by Jorge Amado addressed to his friend Alice Raillard translator of his works into French and to her husband the art critic Georges Raillard on the verso of a photograph of a beach in Fortaleza. Handsome copy. unknown
198383084Salvador de Bahia Salvador: S. n. 1983. Fine. S. n. Salvador de Bahia Salvador 6 septembre 1983 15.50 x 11 cm une feuille Bristol autograph in Brazilian and signed by Jorge Amado addressed to his friend and translator of his works into French Alice Raillard 12 lines in blue ballpoint pen. Handsome copy. S. n. unknown
195175101Paris 1951. Fine. Paris 3 novembre 1951 21 x 27.10 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet Autograph letter signed by Jules Romains to André Dignimont two pages penned in black ink on a sheet of his personal letterhead. Folding marks from mailing. An engaging letter in which Jules Romains corresponds with the painter Dignimont about the forthcoming illustrated edition of his sweeping novel cycle Hommes de bonne volonté: ""J'ai beaucoup pensé cette fois-ci encore aux belles compositions que vous nous avez montrées samedi. Je continue à trouver tout cela très important."" Romains' remarks are revealing as they highlight the divergence between how he envisioned his characters and how his friend interpreted them: ""Est-ce que nos deux jeunes gens ne font pas encore un peu trop rupin. . Je verrais de Marquis de St Papoul avec un visage plus maigre et plus allongé un peu donquichottesque."" He concludes with an apology for his demands: ""Hélas ! Je suis embêtant. Mais j'aime tellement vos compositions que je me permets d'y rêver comme si je les avais faites moi-même."" The illustrated edition would be published in 1954 by Flammarion marking the sole collaboration between the Académie Française member and the Montmartre painter. unknown
197986609Rhodes 1979. Fine. Rhodes Octobre 1979 21 x 10 cm une carte postale Evocative autograph postcard signed by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun written in blue felt-tip pen on the verso of a reproduction of a sculpture depicting a seahorse fountain in Rhodes. Minor angular fold marks on the postcard. ""Rhodes ! J'arrive à Paris Dimanche 19 pour deux nuits. Sera tu la sic Disponible Je decend chez l'hotel Royale comme d'habitude. Le tournage est fini ce soir ! Ouf ! Love. Larry."" ""Rhodes! I'm arriving in Paris Sunday the 19th for two nights. Will you be there Available I'm staying at the Hotel Royale as usual. Filming is finished tonight! Phew! Love. Larry."" After many years spent in Greece Egypt and Rhodes the travelling writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to independence from the British crown. Rich only with a shirt and a typewriter but crowned with the success of his novel Bitter Lemons of Cyprus he arrived in France in 1956 and settled in the Languedoc village of Sommières. In the ""Tartès house"" his large residence surrounded by trees he wrote the second part of his work his monumental Avignon Quintet devoted himself to painting and received his illustrious friends including the couple Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin the violinist Yehudi Menuhin the London publisher Alan G. Thomas and his two daughters Penelope and Sappho. Among the olive trees and under the Mediterranean sun he met in the mid-1960s the young and vivacious ""Jany"" Janine Brun a woman from Montpellier in her thirties of devastating beauty who worked in the Antiquities department at the Sorbonne in Paris. She was nicknamed ""Buttons"" in memory of their first meeting where the young woman wore a dress covered with buttons. Henry Miller also fell under the charm of ""Buttons"" praising her beauty and eternal youth in exceptional unpublished letters. The three companions spent memorable Parisian evenings of which we retain precious autograph traces through their epistolary exchanges. Recommended by Durrell she made numerous trips particularly to England from where she received extensive correspondence from the writer as well as original works of art signed with his artist pseudonym Oscar Epfs. unknown
197173367Malibu 1971. Fine. Malibu s. d. 10.50 x 15 cm une carte postale Autograph postcard signed by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun written in black felt-tip pen on the verso of a photograph of a Malibu beach. ""Buttons hola ! L'amérique est plein de fric de frustrées et d'ennui. Pourtant on est très bien traités et je joue un peu le rôle de Scott Fitzgerald à Malibu."" ""Buttons hello! America is full of money frustrated women and boredom. Yet we are very well treated and I play a bit the role of Scott Fitzgerald in Malibu."". After many years spent in Greece Egypt and Rhodes the travel writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to its independence from the British crown. Rich only with a shirt and a typewriter but crowned with the success of his novel Bitter Lemons of Cyprus Les citrons acides he arrived in France in 1956 and settled in the Languedocian village of Sommières. In the ""maison Tartès"" his large house surrounded by trees he wrote the second part of his work his monumental Avignon Quintet devoted himself to painting and received his illustrious friends including the couple Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin violinist Yehudi Menuhin London publisher Alan G. Thomas and his two daughters Penelope and Sappho. Among the olive trees and under the Mediterranean sun he met in the mid-1960s the young and vivacious ""Jany"" Janine Brun a woman from Montpellier in her thirties with devastating beauty who worked at the Department of Antiquities at the Sorbonne in Paris. She was nicknamed ""Buttons"" in memory of their first meeting where the young woman wore a dress covered with buttons. Henry Miller also fell under the charm of ""Buttons"" praising her beauty and eternal youth in exceptional unpublished letters. The three companions spent memorable Parisian evenings of which we keep precious autograph traces through their epistolary exchanges. Recommended by Durrell she made numerous trips notably to England from where she received extensive correspondence from the writer as well as original works of art signed with his artist pseudonym Oscar Epfs. unknown
198086623Rhodes 1980. Fine. Rhodes s. d. ca 1980 13 x 8 cm une carte postale une enveloppe Suggestive autograph carte de visite signed by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun written in brown and mauve felt-tip pens with accompanying envelope. ""dear Buttons. Oui telephonez moi quand tu es à Sauve-qui-pleut et je viendrai te chercher un coeur dessiné. Larry."" After many years spent in Greece Egypt and Rhodes the travel writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to its independence from the British crown. Rich only in a shirt and a typewriter but crowned with the success of his novel Bitter Lemons of Cyprus Les citrons acides he arrived in France in 1956 and settled in the Languedoc village of Sommières. In the ""Tartès house"" his large dwelling surrounded by trees he wrote the second part of his work his monumental Avignon Quintet devoted himself to painting and received his illustrious friends including the couple Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin violinist Yehudi Menuhin London publisher Alan G. Thomas and his two daughters Penelope and Sappho. Among the olive trees and under the Mediterranean sun he met in the mid-1960s the young and vivacious ""Jany"" Janine Brun a thirty-year-old woman from Montpellier of devastating beauty who worked at the Antiquities department of the Sorbonne in Paris. She was nicknamed ""Buttons"" in memory of their first meeting where the young woman wore a dress covered with buttons. Henry Miller also fell under the charm of ""Buttons"" praising her beauty and eternal youth in exceptional unpublished letters. The three companions spent memorable Parisian evenings of which we retain precious autograph traces through their epistolary exchanges. Recommended by Durrell she made numerous trips notably to England from where she received vast correspondence from the writer as well as original works of art signed with his artist pseudonym Oscar Epfs. unknown
197173360Egypte Egypt 1971. Fine. Egypte Egypt 1971 10.50 x 15 cm une carte postale Autograph postcard signed ""Larry"" by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun written in black felt-tip pen on the verso of a photograph of an Egyptian bas-relief. The writer to his young Montpellier lover: ""For our last day of filming we're going to film Pharaoh receiving the Bonbel Prize for his novel about the private life of a Nile crocodile: 'Le croc'. Then I have to return to London for a few weeks. I hope all is well dear Buttons."". After many years spent in Greece Egypt and Rhodes the traveling writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to its independence from the British crown. Rich only with a shirt and a typewriter but crowned with the success of his novel Bitter Lemons of Cyprus Les citrons acides he arrived in France in 1956 and settled in the Languedoc village of Sommières. In the ""Tartès house"" his large residence surrounded by trees he wrote the second part of his work his monumental Avignon Quintet devoted himself to painting and received his illustrious friends including the couple Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin violinist Yehudi Menuhin London publisher Alan G. Thomas and his two daughters Penelope and Sappho. Among the olive trees and under the Mediterranean sun he met in the mid-1960s the young and sparkling ""Jany"" Janine Brun a thirty-something woman from Montpellier of devastating beauty who worked at the Department of Antiquities at the Sorbonne in Paris. She was nicknamed ""Buttons"" in memory of their first meeting where the young woman wore a dress covered with buttons. Henry Miller also fell under the charm of ""Buttons"" praising her beauty and eternal youth in exceptional unpublished letters. The three companions spent memorable Parisian evenings of which we retain precious autograph traces through their epistolary exchanges. Recommended by Durrell she made numerous trips notably to England from where she received vast correspondence from the writer as well as original works of art signed with his artist pseudonym Oscar Epfs. unknown
