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199578741Sion-sur-l'Océan Sion-sur-l'Océan 1995. Fine. Sion-sur-l'Océan Sion-sur-l'Océan s. d. circa 1995 15 x 10.50 cm une carte postale Autograph signed postcard from Julien Gracq with 16 lines addressed to his friend and monographer Ariel Denis written in black felt-tip pen on the reverse of a photograph showing the beach of Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez in Vendée not far from his apartment in Sion-sur-l'Océan. Julien Gracq thanks Ariel Denis for the news he sent him from Constantinople : "". je suis heureux que votre voyage se soit terminé sans hostilités."" "". I am happy that your journey ended without hostilities."" while lamenting the August crowds disturbing his peaceful retreat in Vendée: "". Je suis à Sion.et hélas ! il y a beaucoup de monde"" "". I am in Sion. and alas! there are many people"". Then the author of ""Le Rivage des Syrtes"" celebrates the critics' benevolence toward him with his characteristic modesty : "". j'ai lu en effet l'article de France soir que vous me signalez : je n'ai pas eu à me plaindre de la critique surtout à propos d'un ouvrage qui n'était pas très important et qui ne prétendait pas l'être."" "". I did indeed read the France Soir article you pointed out to me: I have not had cause to complain about the critics especially regarding a work that was not very important and did not claim to be."" unknown
194276137Paris 1942. Fine. Paris 29 décembre 1942 13.60 x 17.90 cm 6 pages sur un double feuillet et un feuillet simple Autograph letter signed by Lucien Daudet addressed to Lucien Descaves; six pages written in black ink on a double sheet and a single sheet. Creases inherent to the mailing. Fine and long unpublished letter addressed to Lucien Descaves to whom Daudet had not given news for two years. He outlines broadly the tragic events that occurred since: ""Since that time I remained in Paris I witnessed the days of June 40 . I undertook to forget my life to write a life of my father . Then in August I understood that I was very ill . I was operated on reoperated on in November I was dying I knew nothing anymore then a phlebitis. . A month later I learned of my brother's death."" All these sad misadventures do not prevent him from thinking about the Goncourt Academy which he evokes at length in this missive. Indeed his brother Léon Daudet having died a few months earlier the academicians are seeking a successor and Lucien's name figures among the favorites: ""As soon as the newspapers mentioned my name for the Goncourt Academy I was very embarrassed."" He nevertheless states the reasons why he does not wish to join the ten: ""Because I could not appear my brother being dead to say 'my turn' . And finally it is difficult to write when one is the son of Alphonse Daudet but when in addition one is the brother of Léon Daudet . the game was lost in advance for me."" It is finally La Varende who will be elected on the recommendation of René Benjamin and Sacha Guitry and despite his certainties ""I would present myself one day or another to the Academy"" Lucien Daudet will never join the prestigious jury. Lucien has attached to his first letter another sheet in which he comments on Germaine Beaumont's latest novel: ""One must not have the slightest idea of what a novel is a true novel to not have understood that for years no one had written a novel of such density."" This literary consideration is the occasion for Daudet to address the Céline case who - still in France at this time - has just published his third pamphlet Les Beaux Draps: ""You I a few others loved Céline when he had great talent. And then all the imbeciles discovered him when he imitated himself and it was no longer anything but the waffle iron."" unknown
192083165s. l.: S. n. 1920. Fine. S. n. s. l. s. d. 1920 22.50 x 18 cm une page recto-verso Autograph letter signed by the dandy count 39 lines written in black ink probably addressed to his friend and bibliographer critic Henri Lapauze about the sadness that overwhelms him after the disappearance of a mutual friend. To honor his memory Robert de Montesquiou requests an editorial favor from his correspondent. Fold marks inherent to the envelope placement water damage causing two letters of the word Reuilly to blur in the upper left corner of the letter. ""Neuilly My dear friend cette carte toute seule vous parlera de mon chagrin trop grand pour que j'en puisse moi-même parler et pour que je puisse m'en taire. Vous aurez assisté au dernier éclat de ce foyer chaleureux et généreux brûlant brûlé d'intention mot illisible . Je vous demande de vous souvenir que mon pauvre ami se fit une fête d'être le premier à me mettre en relation avec votre aimable femme. Cette pensée nous sera un lien pour moi très fort. Je n'oublierai jamais non plus qu'une de ses joies finales lui vint des paroles prononcées par vous sur mon livre. C'est vous dire que l'insertion intégrale et textuelle de la note discrète dont le texte est ci-joint à la place hélas ! marquée dans la nécrologie fera de moi une fois de plus votre obligé. Robert de Montesquiou. 10 juillet."" ""this card all alone will speak to you of my grief too great for me to be able to speak of it myself and for me to remain silent about it. You will have witnessed the last brilliance of this warm and generous hearth burning burned with intention illegible word. I ask you to remember that my poor friend made it a celebration to be the first to put me in touch with your kind wife. This thought will be a very strong bond for me. I will never forget either that one of his final joys came from the words you spoke about my book. This is to tell you that the complete and textual insertion of the discreet note whose text is attached in the place alas! marked in the obituary will make me once more your obliged. Robert de Montesquiou. July 10."" S. n. unknown
191183331s. l.: S. n. 1911. Fine. S. n. s. l. Janvier 1911 21 x 27 cm 2 feuilles Autograph letter signed by the dandy count 31 lines written in black ink addressed probably to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze notably mentioning a work by Ingres in his possession also thanking his correspondent for his always lucid and benevolent critiques toward him. ""Cher ami je crois posséder une miniature d'Ingres père ; c'est laid mais assez curieux un tétard de Georges Rivière junior mais un tétard sur ivoire ! Merci pour votre mot révélateur mais toujours compréhensif et sympathique en ce qui vous concerne tous les deux c'est l'important. Il n'y a qu'un terme que je n'accepte pas dans votre protestation c'est le monosyllabe tous. ""Envers et contre plusieurs"" suffit et d'ailleurs est plus exact. Tous le monde n'est pas si bête que de ne pas voir et entendre ce que je mets dans mes livres bien notamment dans celui-là et ce que ça vaut. Il y a même beaucoup de gens qui s'en aperçoivent m'en félicitant et m'en remerciant de cent façons. Et comme ce sont les meilleurs je suis content. Vous êtes de ceux-là tous deux. Je le savais ; mais une fois d eplus je m'en félicite non sans vous en complimenter un peu. Votre Montesquiou Janvier 911."" ""Dear friend I believe I possess a miniature by Ingres the elder; it is ugly but quite curious a tadpole by Georges Rivière junior but a tadpole on ivory! Thank you for your revealing word but always understanding and sympathetic as far as you are concerned both of you that's what's important. There is only one term I do not accept in your protest it is the monosyllable 'all'. 'Against and despite several' suffices and moreover is more exact. Everyone is not so stupid as not to see and hear what I put in my books particularly in that one and what it's worth. There are even many people who notice it congratulating and thanking me in a hundred ways. And as they are the best I am content. You are among those both of you. I knew it; but once more I congratulate myself for it not without complimenting you a little. Your Montesquiou January 911."" On a separate sheet Robert de Montesquiou added as a postscript: ""P.S. Votre ""L'homme propose et Dieu dispose"" m'a bien fait rire. Cette fois c'est le Dieu d'Israël ; et celui-là n'est jamais tout à fait converti."" ""P.S. Your 'Man proposes and God disposes' made me laugh heartily. This time it's the God of Israel; and that one is never quite converted."" Traces of folds inherent to postal handling. S. n. unknown
190883324s. l.: S. n. 1908. Fine. S. n. s. l. 14 juin 1908 22.50 x 18 cm une page Autograph letter signed by the dandy count 52 lines written in black ink on tracing paper addressed probably to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze. ""Neuilly Mon cher ami je crains de vous avoir mal dit en hâte et en proie à de cruels mouvements ce que je ressentais fort bien et que par suite je devais exprimer mieux. L'épithète de ""métallique"" appliquée à votre voix sans insister sur la richesse du timbre et la noblesse de la vibration m'apparaît bien loin de ce que me dictaient mon sentiment et ma pensée. Je ne voulais que lui faire figurer l'accent mâle en regard du contralto qu'il me plaisait de lui juxtaposer en plus. Ce que je voulais sous-entendre aussi dans cette supposition d'une résultante en ce carnet du chant alterné de nos causeries c'est l'hommage qu'il nous est toujours agréable de voir rendre aux dignes objets de notre attachement et que j'aimais vous offrir sous la forme du mien désormais double sans cesser d'être un. Robert de M. P.S. : voilà ce que je tenais à vous dire et que des graves préoccupations autour de la santé de mon pauvre Iturri m'ont fait écourter un peu. Je m'occupe mot illisible et vous avertirai vous renseignerai. 14 juin"" ""My dear friend I fear I told you badly hastily and prey to cruel emotions what I felt quite well and which consequently I should have expressed better. The epithet 'metallic' applied to your voice without insisting on the richness of the timbre and the nobility of the vibration appears to me very far from what my feeling and my thought dictated to me. I only wanted it to represent the masculine accent in comparison with the contralto that I was pleased to juxtapose to it in addition. What I also wanted to imply in this supposition of a resultant in this notebook of the alternating song of our conversations is the homage that it is always pleasant for us to see rendered to the worthy objects of our attachment and that I liked to offer you in the form of mine henceforth double without ceasing to be one. Robert de M. P.S.: that is what I wanted to tell you and which serious concerns around the health of my poor Iturri made me cut short a little. I am taking care illegible word and will warn you inform you. June 14"" Traces of folds inherent to postal use. S. n. unknown
189074257s. l. Paris: S. n. 1890. Fine. S. n. s. l. Paris s. d. circa 1890 23 x 18 cm deux pages sur une feuille Autograph letter signed by the dandy count two pages 27 lines written in black ink to Henri Lapauze then journalist at Le Gaulois asking him after receiving his latest published work which he sent him to write a favorable article about him: "". I am sending you my new volume asking you to announce it with your usual good grace. I furthermore desire that the subsequent and detailed review of it be written by you for the readers of Le Gaulois."" Robert de Montesquiou also requests from Henri Lapauze a meeting when he returns to Paris: ""I will ask you for a brief meeting and we can chat for a moment."" Henry Lapauze 1867-1925 was a journalist art critic then in 1905 curator of the Petit Palais converted four years earlier into a museum and whose collections he considerably enriched by acquiring notably the Courbet Henner Falguière collections with at the twilight of his life a marked predilection for the Decorative Arts of which he was one of the ardent promoters. S. n. unknown
196867060Paris 1968. Fine. Paris 16 décembre 1968 21 x 27 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet Long autograph letter signed by Roland Barthes addressed to Georges Raillard. Two pages written in blue ink on a letterhead of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. Envelope with identical header attached. Two central folds inherent in enveloping the envelope. ""Dear friend Thank you for your good letter thank you for the list of notabilities and thank you for the check.Fun has it that I will go back to Barcelona for a few hours at the end of the week.I could not have room on Saturday 21 in the plane Geneva Casablanca which takes place once a week and held by complicated dates I was obliged to go to Morocco to plan to go from Geneva to Barcelona unknown
1963757071963. Fine. 9 10 et 16 janvier 1963 16.60 x 21.90 cm 3 pages sur 2 feuillets Autograph letter signed by Violette Leduc addressed to Adriana Salem written in three stages in blue ink on two sheets detached from a schoolchild's notebook. The three stages of this letter concern the regretted purchase of a record player that Violette Leduc wishes to exchange for a transistor radio. unknown
25091The Singing Lion" famous Italian operatic baritone remembered for his Verdi roles and considered by some the greatest baritone of the 20th century. ALS in Italian 4pp 4½" X 7" London England 1902 June 17. Addressed to Mr. Fano probably Guido Fano 1875-1961 Italian composer and writer on music. Very good. Not translated but clearly music-related in content with music references throughout. Ruffo is very scarce in good music content full letters and this is a choice example penned large and bold. unknown
17365Along with the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy this legendary comedy trio helped create and define physical comedy on film from the 1930s onward. Color IPS magazine stock 7¼" X 8" n.p. n.d. Very good. Homely but not terribly visible tape stains at each corner and one along the left side otherwise clean and attractive. This color matte-finish magazine photograph depicts The Three Stooges in black suits and bow ties one above the other; Moe is at center bottom Curly-Joe is above him with hands on Moe's shoulders and Larry is above him with hands on Curly-Joe's shoulders. All three are wide-eyed in surprise. At lower left near his face Moe writes: "Luck Always / to / Donald Burnell / Sincerely / Moe." To the right of his face Curly-Joe writes: "Best Wishes / To / Donald / Burnell / Curly-Joe." And to the right of his face Larry writes: "Best of Luck to / Donald Burnell / from / Larry." Just on color magazine stock but a quite nice attractive example of this trio nonetheless. Rather scarce. unknown
20469This New York painter and illustrator created many murals for the WPA; he is known for his penchant for machinery and all things mechanical in his work. Original ink-and-wash drawing unsigned heavy stock 12" X 12" n.p. n.d. Near fine. Minor age toning. Illustration from his 1950 book "Diesel-Electric 4030" New York: Viking Press a charming scene depicting a small town railroad station tucked into a hillside the station plaque identifies the city as Hudson New York a couple of idle porters sitting around with carts awaiting the next train some buildings and overpass in the background etc. A delightfully moody evocative piece. Very scarce. unknown
40710The first female sociologist" according to some and a feminist at a time when that word was unknown this versatile English writer penned nonfiction essays poetry novels short stories travelogues economics and more and was one of the few self-supporting women writers of her age. Autograph Quotation unsigned 1p 7 3/4" X 6 3/4" n.p. n.y. Very good. Mild age toning and old not weakened folds; tipped to similar-size sheet. Four 4-line stanzas from Martineau's 1866 poem "The Coming of Christ in Power" the first stanza reading: "Lord Jesus come! for still / Vice shouts her maniac mirth. / And famished thousands crave their fill / While teems the fruitful earth." And the last stanza reads: "Come as in days of old / With words of grace & power! / Gather us all within thy fold / And never leave us more." Interestingly the phraseology of these four stanzas differs considerably from some printed versions of it. Vertically along the right edge a different unknown hand notes "Composed and written by Harriet Martineau. / Given to me by Mrs. Follen." Eliza L. Follen 1787-1860 was an American abolitionist and wife of poet Charles Follen; in 1844 she wrote the introduction to the American edition of Martineau's book "Life in the Sick-Room: Essays." An intriguing Martineau text though not signed and with interesting provenance. unknown
15043Pulitzer prize-winning editorial cartoonist with the "Chicago Tribune" 1903-45. Original signed ink drawing 14½" X 18" n.p. 1928. Very good. Slight edgewear and minor soiling. Labeled "Cartoons of the Day" in cursive by McCutcheon on the lower margin this handsome three-panel piece contains three unrelated topics. The top panel titled "Mr. Hoover completes his geographical education" depicts Hoover standing between a bookcase with volumes labeled "North America" "Europe" "Far East" "Asia" and "Africa" and a table with a lamp on it reading a large volume titled "South America." The middle panel titled "A new topic monopolizes dinner table conversation" depicts a tableful of well-dressed ladies and gents encircling a lady discussing stocks; to the far left at this table sits a lone lady labeled "Prohibition" and to the right sits a lone lady labeled "Florida Boom." The lower panel titled "Government ship inspection from illegible description" depicts a clerk in the foreground gazing at a large ship named "Vestris" saying "I guess that ship looks all right" and filing out a form. Signed simply "McCutcheon" at lower right as usual. unknown
1955007361NY: Charles Scribners Sons. Signed hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Charles Scribners Sons 1955. 8vo. xi306pp. Gray cloth with gilt titles and designs. Inscribed by Niebuhr on the half title: "to Susan & Bob on their wedding day Best wishes Reinhold Niebuhr". Some rubbing to the gilt titles offsetting from NY Times Book Review clipping on Niebuhr laid in else very good clean bright in very good dust jacket with a small chip off the rear panel and wear at the extremities. . Very Good. Hard. 1955. Charles Scribners Sons unknown
1937006950NY: Scribner. SIGNED first edition. Limited to 920 copies. Not numbered. Signed by author on limitation page. Brown was founder of the Museum of the City of New York. Published NY: Scribners 1937. Large folio 12 1/2" x 16 1/2" xiv319pp. profusely illustrated with b/w and tipped-in color plates - most full page the 15 color plates are all present. Cream cloth with gilt titles in green block deckle edges and top edge gilting. Mild soil to the cloth bookplate on pastedown else very good plus clean crisp attractive copy. . Very Good Plus. Hard. 1st. 1937. Scribner unknown
2005007136U.S.A.: Laynfaroh. SIGNED first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Laynfaroh 2005 first printing. 4to. 9 3/4" x 12 1/2" 304pp. profusely illustrated throughout with over 300 full color reproductions. Author's acclaimed book on late 19th century Western artists in the Orient. Signed by author on title page: "BEST WISHES - Kristian Davies - JAN 2005." Small area of sunfade to cloth at heel else fine in near fine dust jacket with mild fray at the crown. . Near Fine. Hard. 1st. 2005. Laynfaroh unknown
1950001757Chicago: Wilcox & Follett Co. 1950. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Very Good DJ. Photographs. First Edition First Printing Blue Cloth. Personally Inscribed " To ---------- Fine Son Of A Gifted Father Whose Brilliant Work On One Of My Problems Promises An Early Solution. With All Best Wishes For A Successful Life. Sincerely / Lee De Forest / First Edition". A Very Bright Attractive Example Dj With No Rubbing To Front Panel Slight Rubbing Along Edges And Slight Dampstaning Along Lower Two Inches Of Spine. <br/> <br/> Wilcox & Follett Co. hardcover
1931018664Washington DC: Jenkins Laboratories / C. Francis Jenkins 1931. First Edition . Brown Cloth. Near Fine. 9 1/4" Tall. Many Photographs. 273 Pp. Brown Cloth Embossed. Important Autobiography By An Inventor Prominent In The Development Of Television And Other Technological Innovations. First Edition. Near Fine. Nicely Inscribed To Mr. And Mrs Rudolph Forster "In Appreciation Of A Long-Time Friendship" And Signed And Dated By The Author 1/15/32. "Rudolph Forster Was Executive Clerk And Administrative Officer In Charge Of Executive Papers At The White House Until His Death In 1943. He Had Piled Up Nearly Fifty Years Of Service To Eight Presidents. His Job Was To Remind The President That A Bill For Example Must Be Acted Upon In A Certain Amount Of Time Or That By Law He Must Fill A Vacancy Within A Definite Period. He Was Also Responsible For The 'Orderly Handling Of Documents' And Supervision Of The Large Clerical Staff. He Was The Most Important Permanent Official At The White House. " -Off The Record With F.D.R. Rutgers University Press 1958. "Rudolph Is A Man Without Faults." - Franklin D. Roosevelt As Cited In That Book P. 140. An Especially Interesting Association Between This Important Invention And A Pillar Of Federal Administration During The Period That Began Without Radio Or Telecommunications But Ended With Their Emergence As Bastions Of Democracy. <br/> <br/> Jenkins Laboratories / C. Francis Jenkins hardcover
180800MV80Italy: None 1808. Two rare documents purple-stained partly-printed ink signed dated 1808 each headed IL PREFETTO E ASSISTENTI DELLA VENERABILE CONGREGAZIONE E COMPAGNIA DEL SANTISSIMO SACRAMENTO ERETTA NELLA PARROCCHIA DI SANT'EULALIA DEL QUARTIERE DELLA MARINA.The ink has really lightened on one of these except for the signature. The original file folder contained a very old collection of foreign autographs and documents which indicates: "Spanish War - rare watermarks - unusually good." Documents relating to the 1808 - 1814 Spanish War or the Peninsula War as is called Spain's War of Independance are very very scarce. Four bold signatures and the fact that it is dated squarely at the beginning of the conflict make for a very interesting pair of documents that require further research. . Autograph. Manuscript. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. None Paperback
19321482Washington DC: Original Letter 1932. Original Letter. Single Sheet. Near Fine. 8 X 10 1/2 Inches. November 23 1932 Typed Letter Signed TLS from US Senator Cordell Hull to "Skull and Bones" member Diplomat and Wall Street Banker Samuel Reading Bertron. Bertron was a noted Presidential advisor of several administrations. This letter is of particular interest as Tennessee Senator Cordell Hull expresses without disguise his view of America and the trouble her citizens are in. In the third year of the great depression that lastest more than a decade Hull writes:<br /> <br /> "Many large groups of American people are in a frightful condition. They are not able to pay one half of their taxes for the past year. They are in in a most ugly state of mind. Without going into details I shall hope to see you and talk out with you some of the more important and pressing phases which are uppermost in our minds."<br /> <br /> On Official United States Senate stationery. Fold-marks. A very nice remnant that clearly exhibits the concern the future Secretary of State has for his country during the height of the Great Depression. Original Letter unknown
41819This son of the first white child born in Chicago daughter of pioneering fur trader John Kinzie served with the 1st Michigan Infantry in the Civil War later serving as a battalion commander at the frontier in 1869 in General Nelson Miles' "Yellowstone Campaign." Partly-Printed DS 1p 11" X 8¼" Standing Rock Dakota Territory 18 August 1876. Very good. Partly-printed "Receipt for Quartermaster's Stores" a secretarially-completed by Lieutenant William Badger form signed boldly by Bates as infantry captain at lower right. Notes receipt of two "Common Tents" two sets of "Common Tent Poles" and five sets of "Common Tent Pins" noting their condition as "Serviceable" and "New." Penned just four weeks after the Battle of Little Big Horn and from the military post where Sitting Bull would later be kept. Scarce and unusual. unknown
15042Pulitzer prize-winning editorial cartoonist with the "Chicago Tribune" 1903-45. Original signed ink drawing 14½" X 17½" n.p. n.d. ca. 1919. Very good. Slight edgewear and minor soiling. Labeled "He would Rather Explain than answer" in cursive by McCutcheon on the lower margin this handsome single panel piece depicts an angry-looking Uncle Sam in profile in the foreground poking the shorter man in front of him identified as "Cox" and demanding "Are you for Article X -- answer me Yes or No" The shorter fellow sweating responds "Let me explain." Uncle Sam points with his other hand at two large placards posted on a wall. The placard at left reads: "Elihu Root on Article X. Article X is an alliance to enforce perpetually through the operations of the League the decisions of Mr. Wilson and his associates in the year 1919. Article X is a throwback to the old discredited alliances of the past. Article X speaks a language of power and not the spirit of progress. Article X is an attempt to do what the Holy Alliance sought 100 years ago with just as noble expressions of purpose to impose by force the judgment of the rulers of the present generation upon all future generations." The placard at right reads: "Pres. Wilson on Article X. Article X is the heart of the covenant." Former senator and secretary of state Root at this time president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace was well known as a strong supporter of the League of Nations -- BUT with strong reservations mainly about Article X which he thought highly impractical. Signed simply "McCutcheon" at lower right as usual. unknown
195384015Boulogne-sur-Seine Boulogne-Billancourt: S. n. 1953. Fine. S. n. Boulogne-sur-Seine Boulogne-Billancourt 5 Septembre 1953 11.50 x 18 cm une feuille une enveloppe Autograph letter dated and signed by André Malraux 14 lines in blue ballpoint pen from his Boulogne home on avenue Victor Hugo discussing his workload related to the preparation and delayed publication of the work Des bas-reliefs aux grottes sacrées for which André Parinaud is sending him documentation. André Malraux is not yet ready to send his work to the publisher: "". le livre ne parait pas cette année. Peut-être en mars 54. Et pour savoir où nous allons il faudrait que la préface au moins fût terminée. J'en ai encore pour deux mois."" "". the book is not coming out this year. Perhaps in March 54. And to know where we are going at least the preface would need to be finished. I still have two months of work ahead."" Fold mark from mailing envelope included. Resistance fighter participating in Combat André Parinaud is a journalist columnist art critic and writer. From 1959 to 1967 he held the position of editor-in-chief of the important weekly Arts bringing together the elite of French creation in all artistic fields: literature painting theater cinema. He would then conduct more than 1000 radio interviews with the greatest writers and artists including Salvador Dali Louis-Ferdinand Céline Colette Paul Léautaud André Breton Georges Simenon and André Malraux. While continuing to work at O.R.T.F. and radio he founded several festivals or artistic events such as Le Festival international du film d'art l'Académie nationale des arts de la rue. S. n. unknown
195484014Boulogne-sur-Seine Boulogne-Billancourt: S. n. 1954. Fine. S. n. Boulogne-sur-Seine Boulogne-Billancourt 17 Mars 1954 13 x 21 cm une feuille une enveloppe Autograph letter dated and signed by André Malraux 14 lines in blue ballpoint pen from his Boulogne home on avenue Victor Hugo confirming a scheduled appointment. He thanks him for his ever-benevolent friendship: ""J'ai trouvé la Parisienne à mon retour. Je vous écris vous ayant lu ce que je vous ai dit avant de vous avoir lu : votre attitude m'est allée au coeur."" ""I found la Parisienne upon my return. I am writing to you having read you what I told you before having read you: your attitude touched my heart."" Fold mark from mailing envelope included. Resistance fighter participating in Combat André Parinaud is a journalist columnist art critic and writer. From 1959 to 1967 he held the position of editor-in-chief of the important weekly Arts bringing together the elite of French creation in all artistic fields: literature painting theater cinema. He would then conduct more than 1000 radio interviews with the greatest writers and artists including Salvador Dali Louis-Ferdinand Céline Colette Paul Léautaud André Breton Georges Simenon and André Malraux. While continuing to work at O.R.T.F. and radio he founded several festivals or artistic events such as Le Festival international du film d'art l'Académie nationale des arts de la rue. S. n. unknown
1716763501716. Fine. 1716 17 x 27 cm 6 pages reliées Autograph manuscript titled Requeste singulière de Nosseigneurs les Ducs et Pairs et de Mesdames les Duchesses au Régent - L'an 1716 ""Singular Request from My Lords the Dukes and Peers and from My Ladies the Duchesses to the Regent - The year 1716"". Six pages written in black ink without erasures or corrections. 19th-century binding in half marbled sheep smooth rubbed spine decorated with gilt and blind fillets title label along the spine paste-paper boards stamped at their center with the arms of Adélaïde Édouard Lelièvre de la Grange marquis de la Grange and de Fourilles information kindly provided by M. Jérôme-Paul Carré pebbled paper endpapers and pastedowns De Broglie-Dampmartin bookplate pasted on front pastedown. Headcaps absent. This burlesque petition was transcribed in Les Ruelles du XVIIIème siècle by Labessade in 1879. hardcover
