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194774239Paris 1947. Fine. Paris mercredi 12 mars 1947 20.80 x 27 cm 1 page sur un feuillet enveloppe jointe Unpublished autograph letter signed addressed to Sarane Alexandrian one page written in blue ink on a sheet with the letterhead of the 1947 International Exhibition of Surrealism. Envelope enclosed. This letter is a response to a letter sent the day before by Sarane Alexandrian partially accessible on the Breton Archives website. Born in Baghdad and engaged in the Resistance in the Limousin it was during this period that Sarane Alexandrian discovered Dadaism. At twenty years old he became André Breton's right-hand man and was entrusted by the latter with directing the secretariat of Cause in order to respond to applications from numerous young artists from around the world wishing to join the Surrealist movement. In October 1948 he broke with the pope of Surrealism while maintaining his esteem and admiration for him: ""Near him one learned the savoir-vivre of poets whose essential article is a savoir-aimer. We admired him for the dignity of his behavior as a writer thinking neither of prizes nor decorations nor academies"" Alexandrian André Breton par lui-même 1971. The letter we offer marks the beginnings of this ephemeral but important relationship between the two writers. André Breton twenty years Sarane Alexandrian's senior seems to place great hopes in this young theorist who takes interest in his writings: ""Max-Pol Fouchet has not yet had me read 'Poetry and Objectivity' but your letter tells me enough for me to believe in a profound accord between us an accord based less on the reception you give to what my message has been able to be until now than on the very nature of your personal project which largely coincides with mine."" As for ""Poetry and Objectivity"" he adds: ""I would see the greatest interest in publishing in the catalog of the Surrealist exhibition some pages by you in which the principal ideas expressed in your letter would need to be barely transposed and especially those which touch upon the creation of an 'erotic mystique'."" This publication taking the form of a manifesto would indeed see the light of day and appear in the review Fontaine produced for the occasion of the 1947 International Exhibition of Surrealism at the Galerie Maeght. The text would earn great success for young Alexandrian who would henceforth be considered by his peers as the number two theorist of Surrealism. A very fine letter marking the beginning of the important but ephemeral relationship between the two master thinkers of Surrealism. unknown
194776435Paris 1947. Fine. Paris 16 février 1947 20.80 x 27 cm une page sur un feuillet enveloppe jointe Unpublished autograph letter signed by André Breton addressed to Michel Fardoulis-Lagrange written in black ink on a sheet with letterhead of the International Surrealist Exhibition 1947. Envelope included. Transverse folds inherent to mailing. Interesting letter evoking the review Troisième Convoi founded by Jean Maquet and Michel Fardoulis-Lagrange written shortly before the second surrealist exhibition at the Maeght gallery: ""Dites-moi : IIIe Convoi ne nous a tout de même pas habitués à cette allure ! "" ""Tell me: IIIe Convoi has not exactly accustomed us to this pace!"". The review whose title was inspired by Vases communicants ""Nous voyageurs du second convoi."" ""We travelers of the second convoy"" had five issues between 1945 and 1951. We have found no trace of Breton's collaboration with this review but the letter we offer demonstrates that it may have been discussed: ""Et vous savez que je reste en assez mauvaise condition avec cette séquelle de sinusite. . Il me faudrait aussi être un peu plus éclairé peut-être sur l'axe de votre quatrième numéro pour ne pas partir à côté ou faire malgré moi trop divergent. Ne pensez-vous pas "" ""And you know that I remain in rather poor condition with this sequel of sinusitis. . I would also need to be perhaps a little more enlightened about the direction of your fourth issue so as not to go off track or despite myself be too divergent. Don't you think"" unknown
1953751681953. Fine. mai 1953 21 x 27 cm une feuille et un petit papillon André Breton autograph manuscript signed ""A.B."" of two chronicles entitled ""Une fameuse gorgée de poison"" and ""ça !"" written for issue no. 7 of May 1953 of the review Médium. One long page written in black ink in careful handwriting on a white sheet some corrections and additions sometimes in blue ink. Included is a small slip in Breton's hand concerning an article by René Alleau containing a small printed text annotated by him in red and blue ballpoint pens and bearing an explanatory note at the top. Two transverse folds of no significance. This is the final version of these two texts; an intermediate version of these articles more crossed out than ours can be seen on the Breton Archives website. ""Une fameuse gorgée de poison"" ""A famous gulp of poison"" is a critical text on two films: Le Rideau cramoisi by Alexandre Astruc drawn from a story by Barbey d'Aurevilly and La Canduela by Maurice Clavel drawn from a novel by Stendhal: ""As they stand these two films constitute an unforgettable ensemble. Love is kindled there in the wind it loves that of perdition."" ""ça !"" ""that!"" whose title we can clearly see was previously chosen by Breton ""Le gredin du jour"" ""The scoundrel of the day"" is a diatribe against ""The frightful fool who bears for so few days more the name of Francis Jourdain"" and who ""recently allowed himself some sordid senile drivel which the press made much of. The old idiot had got it into the rotten parsnip that serves him as head and excretory organ to soil Huysmans if you please!"" unknown
1953751691953. Fine. mai 1953 21 x 27 cm une feuille André Breton autograph manuscript signed ""A.B."" entitled ""3² 4² = 5²"" written for issue no. 7 of May 1953 of the review Médium. 18 lines written in black ink in careful handwriting on a white sheet. Two transverse folds of no significance. This is the final version of the text; an intermediate version of this article can be seen on the Breton Archives website. An interesting chronicle on Paul Sérant's work devoted to René Guénon and his work published by éditions La Colombe: ""Of this work one of the most considerable of our time M. Paul Sérant offers a penetrating study."" unknown
1952751671952. Fine. novembre 1952 20.90 x 13.40 cm une feuille André Breton autograph manuscript comprising two short texts titled ""Assez souillé !"" and ""Courrier transpyrénéen"" written for issue no. 1 of November 1952 of the journal Médium. 18 lines written in black ink in a careful hand on a white sheet. A tiny pinhole in the upper right margin of the sheet. ""Assez souillé !"" ""Enough soiled!"" recounts the reception given by the journal Médium to Céline's panegyric by Albert Paraz. The chronicle titled ""Courrier transpyrénéen"" ""Trans-Pyrenean Mail"" announces the publication of the latest work by critic Juan Eduardo Cirlot titled Surrealismo. Breton also mentions Robert Benayoun's work Le Livre du Non-Sens which would ultimately bear the title Anthologie du non-sens and appear in 1957 published by J.- J. Pauvert. unknown
1953751661953. Fine. mai 1953 21 x 27 cm une feuille André Breton autograph manuscript titled ""Un peu jaguar."" written for issue no. 7 of May 1953 of the journal Médium. 12 lines written in black ink in a careful hand on a white sheet. Two transverse folds of no consequence. This is the final version of the text; an intermediate version of this article is visible on the Archives Breton website. An interesting chronicle concerning the Swedish painter Max Walter Svanberg: ""De Malmö Suède notre très admiré ami Max Walter Svanberg nous écrit pour protester contre la manière dont ont été récemment présentées ses toiles à Paris."" ""From Malmö Sweden our much admired friend Max Walter Svanberg writes to us to protest the manner in which his paintings were recently presented in Paris."" ""It was in 1953 that Breton and his friends discovered Svanberg's work. In 1954 he illustrated the entirety of issue 3 of the surrealist journal Médium and in 1955 Breton wrote the preface for his first solo exhibition in Paris at the ""À l'étoile scellée"" gallery."" Archives Breton unknown
194875175Antibes 1948. Fine. Antibes 9 mars 1948 21.80 x 27 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet Unpublished autograph letter signed by André Breton addressed to Gaston Puel; two pages on one leaf written in blue ink with fine and careful handwriting numerous underlinings. Foxing and marginal adhesive traces. A very fine letter imbued with benevolence in which the Pope of Surrealism shares his numerous and time-consuming occupations with his young correspondent while reassuring him about his talent and future. Gaston Puel began corresponding with André Breton at the Liberation. They had never met at the time of this letter written four years later: « Je suis heureux que vous ayez pensé à m'adresser votre photographie. C'est un grand pas de fait pour rompre la distance et il ne se peut guère que nous ne nous rencontrions bientôt. » ""I am happy that you thought to send me your photograph. It is a great step towards breaking the distance and it can hardly be that we will not meet soon."" The two writers seem very close as evidenced by Breton's paternal and reassuring tone: « Ne parlez pas comme à regret de ceux qui avancent : vous en êtes et j'en sais bien peu qui soient si loin que vous déjà. Ce que vous m'écrivez - pas seulement cette fois - est toujours pour moi de haute importance. » ""Do not speak regretfully of those who advance: you are among them and I know very few who are already as far along as you. What you write to me - not just this time - is always of great importance to me."" A tireless worker Breton here shares his frustration and weariness with Puel: « Mais il faut continuer à vivre et pour cela se réserver une part de solitude qu'avec angoisse aussi je vois diminuer chaque jour. » ""But one must continue to live and for that reserve a share of solitude which I also see diminishing each day with anguish."" Gaston Puel then 24 years old had been participating for some time in the activities of the surrealist group around Joë Bousquet André Breton and René Char. His mentor here predicts a clear future for him: « Mon cher Ami je souhaite très vivement que vous preniez une part active à la rédaction de « Néon ». Il suffirait d'une très légère transposition de ton pour que les pages que vous m'adressez puissent y trouver place et en constituer un des éléments primordiaux. Il en va naturellement de même pour « Supérieur inconnu » si cette revue peut voir le jour. » ""My dear Friend I very much wish that you would take an active part in the editing of 'Néon'. It would only require a very slight transposition of tone for the pages you send me to find their place there and form one of its primordial elements. The same goes naturally for 'Supérieur inconnu' if this magazine can see the light of day."" This latter review meant to reconcile and unite the conservatives and innovators of surrealism would only come to light forty-eight years later under the impetus of Sarane Alexandrian. Gaston Puel would indeed join the editorial team of Néon but would eventually turn away from the surrealists - while maintaining his friendship with Breton - in 1950. 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
195484002Boulogne-sur-Seine Boulogne-Billancourt: S. n. 1954. Fine. S. n. Boulogne-sur-Seine Boulogne-Billancourt 28 Décembre 1954 13.50 x 21 cm une feuille Autograph letter signed and dated by André Malraux 20 lines in blue ballpoint pen from his Boulogne home on avenue Victor Hugo thanking him for his favorable review either of Des bas-reliefs aux grottes sacrées or of Le Monde chrétien both published in 1954. He apologizes for not being able to respond quickly to his laudatory article before thanking him: "". it is certain that by emphasizing both the technical aspect and the other underlined words you render the book a great service and take the animal by the right end."" he also acknowledges the clairvoyance and pertinence of his article despite the difficulty of properly apprehending the work: "". for these essays are not conceivable within traditional art criticism."" while praising the attachment that binds them: "". this attitude which is the only just one did it not necessarily imply a friendship that shows through each line in a place where there is some merit in proclaiming it."" Fold mark inherent to the mailing process. Resistance fighter and participant 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 then conducted 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 The International Art Film Festival the National Academy of Street Arts. S. n. unknown
197387973s. l.: s. n. 1973. Fine. s. n. s. l. 1973 13.50 x 9 cm une feuille Printed visiting card signed by André Malraux to which he has added in black ballpoint pen these few words for his friend Minka Strauss: ""All my thanks dear Minka for the pastries. I am also sending you a small bibliophilic gift. Most affectionately."" s. n. unknown
197387972s. l.: s. n. 1973. Fine. s. n. s. l. 1973 13.50 x 9 cm une feuille Printed visiting card on which André Malraux has added in blue ballpoint pen these few words for his friend Minka Strauss: ""Thank you dear Minka for your charming and useful attention. My regards to K.H. I beg you and my affectionate respects."" s. n. unknown
197488006s. l.: s. n. 1974. Fine. s. n. s. l. s.d. ca 1974 13.50 x 8.50 cm une feuille Printed visiting card of André Malraux on which he added these few words for his friend Minka Strauss: ""All my affectionate regrets dear Minka but I could not have made it to your elevator."" Handsome copy. s. n. unknown
197388071s. l.: s. n. 1973. Fine. s. n. s. l. 1973 13.50 x 9 cm une feuille Printed calling card on which André Malraux added in blue ballpoint pen these few words for his friends Minka and Karl Hans Strauss: ""I am touched dear friends by the affectionate part you take in my grief. And what else is there to say.""  s. n. 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
193964406Paris et Richelieu Paris 1939. Fine. Paris et Richelieu Paris 1939-1940 21 x 27 cm en feuillets Set of 6 autograph letters signed by André Rolland de Renéville 21 pages in black and blue ink. The letters are dated with one exception between June 28 1939 and May 27 1940 and include various addresses at the head of the pages. Folds inherent in envelopes. unknown
192064367Paris 1920. Fine. Paris s. d. 11 x 13.50 cm un feuillet André Suarès autograph letter to his editors Emile-Paul Frères 6 lines in pencil in the hand of the author and 3 lines of the hand of the editors address of the editors at the head of the letter. Envelope attached. Letter concerning the articles that Suares wrote during the war already published under the name of Commentaries quoted on the back of the letter. unknown
193864165Paris: Agence générale de copies dramatiques et littéraires H. Compère 1938. Fine. Agence générale de copies dramatiques et littéraires H. Compère Paris s. d. circa 1938 20.50 x 27.50 cm broché et en feuilles Autograph manuscripts and typescripts by André-Ferdinand Hérold for the libretto of Zadig musical comedy premiered on June 24 1938 at the Opéra-Comique with music by Jean Dupérier. Several hundred typewritten and manuscript pages numerous corrections in ink and pencil in the librettist's hand stamp of the general agency for dramatic and literary copies H. Compère on the front cover and first endpaper of the paperbound copy. The paperbound copy contains a complete version of the libretto and all the ensembles are incomplete fragments of several states of the text which as indicated by a note from a previous owner cannot be reclassified in logical order. Some fragments appear to be drafts of poems. Agence générale de copies dramatiques et littéraires H. Compère unknown
40793This lawyer and oil company executive served in the Spanish-American War and as New York police commissioner from 1895 to1898; as a general in the U.S. Army he served with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War One assistant chief of staff to General John J. Pershing. TLS 1p 8¼" X 10½" n.p. 1918 December 19. Addressed to Joseph Cummings Chase 1891-1954. Very good. Lightly age toned with original folds. On typed "General Headquarters / American Exppeditionary Forces / First Section -- General Staff" stationery Andrews send this "personal and unofficial note in part to express my sincere appreciation of your work in painting my portrait this morning and partly to express also unofficially the hope that arrangements may be made for the reproduction in suitable form of all the portraits which you may paint of officers of the A.E.F." Boldly signed in brown ink. Chase had been commissioned by the A.E.F. to paint portraits of commanding generals and hero doughboys -- and they were indeed reproduced in suitable form in the 1920 book "Soldiers All: Portraits and Sketches of the Men of the A.E.F." New York: George H. Doran Company with a biographical entry about Andrews on page 429 and the portrait referred to in this letter on page 430. unknown
15559English tough guy character actor who struts his stuff in "The Battle of Britain" and numerous combat films. IPS 3½" X 5½" n.p. 1960. Fine. Striking glossy closeup in costume from "Solomon and Sheba" 1959 inscribed "Best wishes / from / Harry Andrews / 1960. unknown
38068This French fighter ace served with the 130th Squadron and later the 91st Squadron of the Royal Air Force downing six enemy aircraft with several more possible victories. PS 3½" X 5½" n.p. n.y. Fine. Handsome head-and-shoulders portrait of Andrieux in uniform in later years with his typical "double signature" "Generces. J. Andrieux / J. Andrieux". In addition on the verso he pens the names of four titles he received: "Croix de le liberation / Legion d Honneur. / DFC. & Bar / Silver Star." "DFC" = Distinguished Flying Cross. A wonderful example. unknown
2013045772Austin TX: Greenleaf Book Group Press 2013 Book. As New. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. 1st US Edition. Gianna Angelopoulos attempts to view the course of the past decades through her own personal experience. A girl from Crete with dreams and aspirations as a lawyer was involved with politics. and alongside Theo Angelopoulos . in the world of business - and family life until in 1996 she was given the task of organizing the XXVIII Olympic Games in Greece in 2004 . 299p.48 pages of plates some col. Inscribed with a personal thank note in Greek on the half title else as new. Greenleaf Book Group Press hardcover
1986047165Brockport NY: BOA Editions Ltd. 1986 Book. As New. Rebound Copy. Inscribed by Authors. 1st US Edition. The recipient of the 1985 Greek National Poetry Award for the Greek version of Beings and Things on Their Own Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke is the author of seven previous books of poetry in Greek. Translated by the author in collaboration with Jackie Wilcox.47p. BOA Editions Ltd. hardcover
2009047166Graywolf Press 2009 Book. Illus. by Trans. Karen Van Dyke. New. Trade Paperback. Signed by Authors. 1st US Edition. Drawn from the traditions of Greek myth history and literature The Scattered Papers of Penelope is poet Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke's first full retrospective collection available in English. Carried over from the Greek by an array of noted translators including the editor Karen Van Dyck Anghelaki- Rooke's poetry is bold sensual and brash. She re-examines Greek myth and history through the female body-the body of Penelope .Other poems take the form of a journal kept during the first Gulf War prose poems about modern violence and the destruction of nature existential musings on beings and things on their own and lush lyrical descriptions of the domestic life on the poet's adopted home island of Aegina.The Scattered Papers of Penelope introduces to American readers a major global poetic voice a winner of the Greek National Prize for Poetry and the Greek Academy's Poetry Prize. Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke was born in Athens Greece in 1939. The author of eighteen books of poetry her work has been translated into a dozen languages.128p. . Graywolf Press paperback
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
