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186084915s. l. 1860. Fine. s. l. 15 juillet1860 13.50 x 21 cm une page et demi sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by Sainte-Beuve 1 and a half pages on a double sheet. 25 lines in black ink. ""J'ai été très sensible cher monsieur à votre bon français et à l'envoi du très sage et instructif volume qui en est la cause. Vous me rappelez en effet des temps déjà bien anciens mais que ce qui a fini n'a pu effacer de ma mémoire : car à vous parler vrai quoi qu'il y ait bien de l'espace et bien de l'intervalle d'aujourd'hui à ce temps-ci il me paraît souvent qu'il y a du vide : et le tourbillon de la vie littéraire dont vous me parlez je ne le ressens guère. Ce qui me frappe c'est plutôt le contraire du tourbillon c'est à dire l'isolement la disparition ou le peu de mouvement de groupe. On se survit et l'on traîne un peu : je parle du moins pour moi aussi n'en suis-je que plus sensible. . de bons témoignages comme le vôtre qui attestent que le passé n'est pas oublié et qu'il a réellement existé. Croyez-moi je vous prie tout à vous. Sainte-Beuve."" ""I have been very touched dear sir by your good French and by the sending of the very wise and instructive volume which is the cause of it. You remind me indeed of times already quite ancient but which what has ended could not erase from my memory: for to speak truly to you although there is much space and much interval from today to that time it often seems to me that there is emptiness: and the whirlwind of literary life of which you speak to me I hardly feel it. What strikes me is rather the contrary of the whirlwind that is to say isolation the disappearance or the little group movement. One survives oneself and drags on a little: I speak at least for myself so I am all the more sensitive. . to good testimonies like yours which attest that the past is not forgotten and that it really existed. Believe me I beg you entirely yours. Sainte-Beuve."" 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 Fine and long unpublished letter addressed to Lucien Descaves to whom Daudet had not given news for two years.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
185284884s. l. 1852. Fine. s. l. 22 Mars 1852 13.50 x 20.50 cm une feuille Fine autograph letter dated and signed by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly addressed to historian Jean-Marie Dargaud 13 lines in black ink. Creases inherent to folding for posting. Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly shows great tact towards his friend also expressing all his affection: ""Je veux vous épargner en allant sous peu de jours vous voir chez vous une course longue et peut-être inutile. On ne me voit que le matin et encore les trois premiers jours de la semaine. J'irai donc vous voir."" ""I want to spare you by going to see you at your home in a few days a long and perhaps unnecessary journey. I can only be seen in the morning and only on the first three days of the week. I will therefore come to see you."" unknown
196085012Ciboure 1960. Fine. Ciboure 14 Février ca 1960 21 x 27 cm une page Autograph letter signed by Pierre Benoit from his property in Ciboure 15 lines in black ink. Central fold marks perforations due to filing in a binder having caused no loss. Pierre Benoit will soon be in Paris and will have the pleasure of meeting his friend: ""j'aurais une vraie joie à faire en tête avec vous dans un déjeuner discret un petit tour d'horizon."" I would have true joy in having a private conversation with you over a discreet lunch a brief survey of things. when the latter has determined according to his schedule a date for their meeting: ""Consultez votre emploi du temps et donnez-moi un coup de téléphone de préférence le matin vers 10 heures moment qui convient aux travailleurs que nous sommes."" Check your schedule and give me a telephone call preferably in the morning around 10 o'clock a time that suits workers like us. unknown
188583961s. l. Paris 1885. Fine. s. l. Paris 15 août 1885 13.40 x 21.10 cm 1 page 1/2 sur un bifeuillet Autograph letter signed by Louise Michel addressed to Lucien Barrois; one and a half pages written in black ink on a bifolium of white paper with black border. Transverse folds inherent to mailing. Tears to lower margin without loss at the fold. Louise Michel requests help for one of her friends: ""Vous savez que le père Blin ne peut plus travailler depuis deux mois passés voici maintenant la mère Blin qui vient de tomber très malade. Voyez ce qu'on pourrait faire vous savez tous les services qu'ils ont rendus en 70-71. Mon petit cousin . aidera le père Blin à tenir son kioske sic mais cela ne donne pas de secours à la maladie de Mme Blin. Mme Barrois devait revenir demain samedi ici qu'elle ne l'oublie pas mais je la prie bien aussi de voir ce qu'on pourrait pour Mme Blin."" ""You know that father Blin has been unable to work for the past two months and now mother Blin has just fallen very ill. See what could be done you know all the services they rendered in 70-71. My little cousin . will help father Blin run his kiosk but that doesn't provide relief for Mme Blin's illness. Mme Barrois was supposed to return here tomorrow Saturday may she not forget it but I also earnestly ask her to see what could be done for Mme Blin."" Mme Blin actively participated in the Paris Commune alongside Louise Michel; with other Parisian women they created the Women's Vigilance Committee and asked Louise Michel to take charge of it. Moving letter testimony to the unfailing devotion of the former Communard. unknown
195483967Meudon 1954. Fine. Meudon 1954 21.20 x 26.10 cm une page sur un feuillet Autograph manuscript signed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline written in blue ballpoint pen on a sheet of white paper numbered 237 in the left corner. Some stains as well as a central fold of no consequence. Some pinholes in the upper margin evidence of the organization of Céline's manuscripts in ""bundles"". ""Y'en a un charlatant là-haut ! et terrible ! et vous le connaissez !. donc de dessous là ! de dessous la table je regarde le moulin. pas loin. peut-être deux cents mètres. et dans quel air éblouissant !. eh bien je vous dis comme je l'ai vu."" ""There's a charlatan up there! and terrible! and you know him!. so from underneath there! from under the table I look at the windmill. not far. maybe two hundred meters. and in what dazzling air!. well I tell you as I saw it."" The passage from our sheet conforms to the published version. Published in 1954 Normance is a direct sequel to Féérie pour une autre fois published two years earlier. The two parts were written during Céline's years of exile and imprisonment in Denmark. Upon his return to France in 1951 Céline undertook a work of ""polishing"" and published these two titanic texts independently originally conceived as one. ""Céline while working on it thought of this novel as a second Voyage au bout de la nuit capable twenty years later of astonishing the public as much as the 1932 novel."" Henri Godard unknown
198170551Grèce Greece 1981. Fine. Grèce Greece 28 mai 1981 14.60 x 10.20 cm une carte postale Autograph postcard signed by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun his young French lover written in blue felt-tip pen on the verso of a humorous illustration featuring Poseidon. The writer had stayed at Club Méditerranée and sings its praises with a verse from the neo-medieval poem The Bard by Thomas Gray and one from Baudelaire: ""youth at the prow and beauty at the helm"" Jeunesse à la proue et beauté à la barre luxe et voupté - dans le Club Méditerranée everything is done for you tout est fait pour vous J'ai envie de rester encore vingt ans ici. That would make me 110 years old j'aurais 110 ans."" 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 Les citrons acides he arrived in France in 1956 and settled in the Languedoc 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 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 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
17934199Norwich CT: Original 1793. Original Letter. Very Good. 7 1/4 X 8 1/2 Inches. Autograph Letter Signed. Important letter from Samuel Huntington signer of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Connecticut. In part: "I am this day honore'd with your letter of the 29th Ulto.by Capt. Robert Barry; & agreeably to your desire to have restored to him the Brig. Nancy with all the Appurtenances & Cargo that were found on board at the time she was taken into Custody by the Government. / With Great Respect / I am your humble Servant / S. H."<br /> <br /> This "copy" made in the hand of Samuel Huntington as Governor of Connecticut. Dated September 3 1793 this letter is an important handwritten record from the close of the Citizen Genet Affair. Huntington writes to John Temple the British Consul-General to the United States concerning the return of an English ship siezed by illegal French privateer "Petit Democrat." <br /> <br /> Tipped to another sheet. Some bleeding and a bit of toning. A nicely preserved letter ALS overall. Original unknown
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
185600JT68France 1856. Large archive of handwritten letters dates ranging from 1848 to 1869 but most in the mid-50s addressed to important French nobleman the Marquis de Beaumont. Most are of a personal nature intimate nature: Leopold de Carayon writes with humour: "If you are lying I will catch you my old friend.and this Pauline who supposedly is holding you back from coming I will make her pay!.Come see me soon." Beaumont's godson writes other nobility and there is one letter of condolence regarding the Marquis' mother's death. A certain concierge in Paris also writes of some intrigue. Very very interesting archive showing an intimate glimpse of French nobility. Autograph. Manuscript. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Paperback
1861000615Chicago Illinois IL. Good. 1861. A wonderful archive of historically significant with detailed civil war content: 1 Two detailed Civil War diaries; 2 Ransom's first war letter home; 3 superb signed Ransom Civil War cartes des vistecdv; 4 Other photos: a tintype cdv gem photo and another hand colored cdv of his wife Louie Lucy Perham; 5 A book titled "Sacred Poems"; 6 Ransom's business card and property tag and lastly but of huge importance to genealogists; 7 Early name and address book of Dick Ransom mentioning many family members and Battery mates. Dick Ransom was from Chicago Illinois; enlisted on 8/7/1862 as a private. On 8/29/1862 he mustered into Chicago Mercantile Light Artillery. He was discharged for disability on 3/24/1863. Specifics: Diary #1 1861 2.5 x 3.5 inches full year January 1st through December 31st 1861 120 pages of which approx. 250 days with entries recorded dark brown period ink very legible. Great war content and a number of remarks made in great excitement; Lincoln as President; death of Col. Ellsworth and Steven Douglas. Battle excitement and the rout of the federal army at the first battle of Bull Run at Manassas. Diary #2 1862 : 3 x 5 inches entries from Aug. 7th 1862 through Mar. 6th 1863. 29 pages brown period ink very legible. Cover reads " Dick Ransom mercantile Battery Chicago Artillary 100 Washington Street Chicago". Signed in ink in Dick Ransom's hand on first page; "Dick Ransom 100 Washington Street Chicago Ill." Also included: 3 wonderful cdv/tintype of Lucy Ransom. Dick speaks of his proposal for marriage to Lucy in his 1861 diary. First is a tintype/cdv format of Lucy backmark Chicago dated Aug 19th 1866 and signed on reverse in Dick's handin brown ink "Louie Perham 1866 Dick Ransom". Secondly mounted Gem Albuman photo of Lucy on cdv mount ca. 1865. Cdv is handcolored image of Lucy dated Jan 23rd 1868. The address book includes all of Dick's friends and family and many of Mercantile Battery mates including Sinclair Willard Gunlock and Medal of Honor winner James Dunne. 3 x 5 inches many pages of entries mouse chew on cover edges. The date of 1883 can be found on the fep. Brown ink inscriptions this book is an important genealogy record and helps to identify all the people referred to in the diaries. Here are some snippets: " January 9th "my Birthday 19 years old born at South Woodstock Vermont""march 4th Abe Lincoln President of the United States"" Mar 19th " wrote a long letter to Lucy . with a proposal for marrige which I am sure will be accepted.I am in great anxiety for an answer". tintype of Lucy included "rec'd an answer alright = O.K."" April 25th -Intense excitement about . voluteers companies forming and drilling constantly all over the North"." May 2nd - douglas was received here by republicans and Democrates unanimously " May 3 - great war excitement for some time - volunteerism all over the country - great excitement". " May 5th - volunteers drilling in the streets "" May 8th - Lucy went for me to get a flag for the volunteers ."" May 9th - great war excitement companies guarding and driling". " May 24th - war message regarding the good and efficient commanders." " may 25th - Scott and President Lincoln col. Ellsworth the Zouave huro of Chicago killed in Alexandrea yesterday for tearing down a secsession flag. " June 3rd - Stephen A Douglas died at the tremont house this A.m. at 48. The city draped very very heavily mourning. col. Ellesworth funeral yeaterday at Bryan hall". " May 4th - Douglas laid in state at Bryan Hall all day." " May 5th - Douglas still in Bryan Hall ". " May 5th - Douglas still lies in state at Bryan hall is to be burried at Cottage Grove tomorrow ". "May 7th- Douglas funeral stores all shut up largest funeral ever in Chicago ". " June 10th - War excitement continues usual small battles and skirmishes but no large ones some expected soon". " June 20th - war and rumors of war some great battles expected soon in vicinity of Washington Sucession." " June 25th - Great riot in Milwakee yesterday - Dutch Mob attacks." " June 25 - all state banks in iowa Indiana and Eastern Missiouri counterfeits so plenty now". " June 30th - went out to Cottage Grove to see the camp" " July 8 - Telegraphs forbidden by the War department to transmit any war news of the intentions of the united states "." July 16 - the federal forces are beginning to move toward Richmond knowing where they will stop Gen. Scott don't tell everydody". " July 22 - At noon good news from the war high hopes night news the entire rout of the Federal army . and retreat back to Washington". referring to the first battle of Bull Run at Manassas " July 23 - News from war not encouraging - 600 killed ". " July 25- breacking accounts the battle and rout of the Union army though better than at first suspected ". " Sept. 25- think of joining T.E.G. Ransoms 11th regiment at Cairo had a letter from him wants me". referring to Gen. Ransom. " Oct 6th - another letter from T.E. G. Ransom still urges me. " " Aug 7th 1862 I enlisted in the Mercantile Battery of the Artillary of the U.S. for three years unless sooner discharges"" Aug 9th I was sworn in by capt. christopher U.S. mustering officer of Chicago". " Mr Sutter pastor presented each of the young men who had enlisted with a teatament". " Aug 11th - picked up duds to go to camp tomorrow- at 9 o'clock". "Aug 12th- at 9 o'clock at our headquarters at corner of Lake and State streets at the .Mercantile Association - marched to court house and examined by surgeon and then recieved our $ 60 ". " Aug 13th - arranged our camp as best we could not being organized . was on guard . skirmishing ." " Aug 14th -rec'd news that we were accepted by the government and were to have a full battery . powder smooth Bores . the Coffeemill . orders to fill up the company to 156 men. some photographs taken ". " Aug 25 - we elected our officers and then were visited by Adjutant General Fuller.Cooley Wilson Swan Bickford ". " Aug 29 - The Battery was mustered into service by lt. Knox ". "Sept. 1st- went to town to get more photographs". " Sept 23 - lient Wilson had a sword to be presented him ". " Oct. 3- went to camp and found that the Guns and all accoutrements and ammunition had come". . guns 2 .from riffle james cannon 2 to 8 ditto rebel guns -one made in Memphis and one in orleans which had been captured". " Oct 4th Seargents knights and Whitney Thomas and Throop drew cuts for the 4 bronze guns -knight & Thomas got the U.S. & Throop 7 Whit the rebels.". " Oct 5- had a great deal of company to look at the guns ." the Mercantile Association presented Crego with a sword . the accoutrements are being distributed and guns. today there was a sword Pistols presented to Capt. Cooley by the Mercantile Association." "Oct 15th " last evening the Asociation presented the Battery a splendid set of Colors. . to ft. Wayne.after the horses for the Battery ". " Oct 26th - we drill about 4 hours daily with our horses and guns on the prarie and five blank cartriges to break in the horses - we are almost ready mow for the field and fight". We are now likely to get our Captain Cooley to resign and have Morgan in his place. we have no guard around the camp now only on the horses guns ammunitionstores & officers tents and the boys go down town when they choose". " Dec. 25th - Vicksburg measels" "jan 2nd 1863. left Yazoo country- & Walnut Hills & c bluffs - Sherman's big retreat" . " Feb 14 - Arkansas Post- Sherman deserted - then back to Youngs Point". " Mar 6th Left Youngs Point for Hospital in Memphis on steame "City of Memphis". " April 1st 1863 - Mrs. Livermore brought me my discharge from the service- to Washington Hosptal Memphis.". " April 2 - left Memphis on Bostona -- homeward bound a free man". Remarkable archive.; Manuscript; 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF DICK RANSOM ALS CDV AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL PERSONAL HISTORY MEMOIR MEMORIAL DIARY JOURNAL DIARIES JOURNALS LOG LOGS KEEPSAKE AMERICANA Civil War War Between the States VICKSBURG MANASSASS BULL RUN LINCOLN ILLINOIS MERCHANTILE ILLINOIS INFANTRY Zouave . unknown
1890000615bChicago Illinois IL. Good. 1890. Important archive of post Civil War GAR letters of the Chicago Mercantile Battery Light Infantry Chicago Illinois including two Medals of Honor winner's autographs Kretsinger and Stevens. This archive comes from the Dick Ransom estate from his former Civil War comrades specific to the GAR activities for the "Battery Boys." 1 Letter written on behalf of battery mate Dick Ransom by Gardner Willard and signed by 8 additional Chicago Mercantile Battery boys. Two of these signatures belong to Medal of Honor winners William Stevens and George Kretsinger. Other signatures include David Crego Orin Nash W. Brown Richard Powel Florus D. Meachem. Dated 1891. 2. Hand written letter in support of Dick Ransom and signed by battery mate J. H. Swan. 1891. 3. Dec. 15th 1890 carbon-type copy of a letter Ransom had sent to fellow battery comrade George Kretsinger. 4. great personal letter from fellow Battery comrade Henry C. Gray .single page ink dated Feb. 13 1888. 5. Wonderful period civil war letter from Battery Comrad to Ransom from Gardner G. Willard single sheet and dated during the civil war April 18th 1863. 6 wonderful 4 page letter from former Battery mate Chapin. Letter in ink dated Jan. 1876 being sent to Dick Ransom sharing Chapin's heart felt concern over the recent loss of Ransom's wife. 7. typed letter by Battery Mate James H. Swan in support of Dick Ransom. BIO NOTES: Dick Ransom; Residence Chicago IL; Enlisted on 8/7/1862 as a Private. On 8/29/1862 he mustered into Illinois Chicago Mercantile Light Artillery. He was discharged for disability on 3/24/1863. David R. Crego; First Lieutenant 8/29/62 through 2/6/63. Orrin Nash: 8/29/1862 through 7/10/65. William L. Brown : 8/29/1862 through 7/10/65. Richard Powel; On 10/5/1863 he mustered into IL Chicago Merc He was discharged for disability on 6/17/1864. Florrus D. Meachem; Served 8/29/1862 through 7/10/65. James H. Swan; Enlisted on 8/29/1862 as a 1st Lieutenant. George Kretsinger; Entered service at: Chicago Ill. Birth: Herkimer County N.Y. Date of issue: 20 July 1897. Citation: Carried with others by hand a cannon up to and fired it through an embrasure of the enemy's works. Medal of Honor Winner. Henry C. Gray; Enlisted on 8/15/1862 as a Private. Gardner G. Williard; Enlisted on 8/5/1862 as a Private. James H. Swan; Enlisted on 8/29/1862 as a 1st Lieutenant. Generally very good though a stain has affected a few items none touching signatures.; Manuscript; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL PERSONAL HISTORY MEMOIR MEMORIAL DIARY JOURNAL DIARIES JOURNALS LOG LOGS KEEPSAKE AMERICANA Civil War War Between the States VICKSBURG MANASSASS BULL RUN LINCOLN ILLINOIS MERCHANTILE ILLINOIS INFANTRY GAR GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC VETERANS . unknown
H4063Very Good. Dated Novemberr 23 1944 on Peace News letterhead Murry writes: Dear Miss Cope I am sorry but in these days it is a physical impossibility for me to make a journey to Cambridge without an inordinate expenditure of time. In more spacious days with plenty of petrol it was comparatively easy for me to pick up a train at Thetford which is 10 miles away. I can't do it now. That makes it an immensely round-about journey for which at the moment I have neither the time nor energy. Yours sincerely J. Middleton Murray. . Very good some light wrinkling and creasing. Both this letter and T. S. Eliot's which we have cataloged recently both employ not just the 'Oxford two spaces' after periods but seem to add a third space. We suggest this to be the subject of someone's dissertation: 'The Development of the "Oxford Three-Space" Among English Literary Personages of the 1930s and 1940s.'. unknown
1972056879Nanterre: Theatre De Nanterre 1972. First Edition . Single Sheet. Fine. 11 1/2" x 8 1/2. Single Sheet Poster Printed On Both Sides With Directions On Reverse. From The Collections Of Forrest Ackerman. <br/> <br/> Theatre De Nanterre unknown
195483743s. l. Meudon 1954. Fine. Céline's Ars Poetica: ""I capture all the emotion on the surface! I cram it into my metro! s. l. Meudon s. d. 1954 10 x 21 cm 34 feuillets Manuscript pages from Conversations with Professor Y' n.p. Meudon n.d. 1954 various sizes from 10x21 cm to 27x21 cm 34 sheets. Autograph manuscript by Louis-Ferdinand Céline 34 sheets of various sizes written in blue and sometimes pink ballpoint pen. Some of the pages are numbered by Céline at top left. The last folio numbered 159 is signed by the writer at the bottom. Two leaves contain previously unpublished passages: the first a few lines long refers to the Professeur. The second leaf numbered 136 features another full-page text on the verso which we did not find in the Professeur Y' or in any of the published works of Céline. Céline refers in this unpublished passage to article 75 of the penal code condemning to the death penalty any French citizen found guilty of intelligence with the enemy. It also mentions a certain ""Me Johann Niels Borggensen"" no doubt a pseudonym for his lawyer Thorvald Mikkelsen: "".supposedly to protect me from police curiosity! holy cow! he was having a ball.when you've got the warrant up your arse crossed out: article 75 anyone can do what they like with you! what a joke! we can do what we like with you.it wouldn't have been Borggensen perhaps someone else would have been worse.give me article 75 and I'll put the whole of France in a Mouse hole for you! and Germany with it! and England such a nag and Europe with it! no bomb needed! H ! Y ! Z ! I'll make you fit the atom into a."" Important set of working manuscripts bearing witness to the writing of Conversations with Professor Y' Céline's true Ars poetica. Since the first part of Féerie pour une autre fois' Fable for Another Time was not as successful as expected Céline wanted to give the release of the second part - Normance - as much publicity as possible and restore his reputation after his years of exile in Germany and Denmark. Instead of writing the usual promotional note prière d'insérer he suggested to publisher Gaston Gallimard this eulogy written in the style of an imaginary interview between himself and Professor Y alias Colonel Réséda a prostatic old man. This zany ""interviouwe"" was published in several parts in the Nouvelle Revue française in 1954 and the finished work through Éditions Gallimard the following year. Céline speaks fervently of his style and his conception of literature and vehemently criticizes the world of letters and public taste. Unlike Céline's other works the genesis of this text crucial to the understanding of his oeuvre is poorly documented and its manuscripts are rare. The Pléiade edition of Celinian novels contains only a few pages of an earlier version very close to the published text. This set of pages covering every passage of the text contains both heavily crossed-out sheets and neatly rewritten notes. It bears witness to the different stages of the writer's work: drafting an initial sheet crossing out and rewriting on the same page then transcribing short passages on separate notes. The last page of the text is extensively crossed out and rewritten resulting in a slightly different version of the published version. The manuscript also contains the famous metaphor of the metro typical of the writer's emotive style compared here to the ""dry language"" of his peers: ""Did you see Have you noticed All caught up in my metro!. what do I leave on the surface. the worst rubbish in cinema!. foreign languages then!. translations!. retranslations of our worst rubbish that they use for their ""parlants"" talking pictures superb foreign languages!. in addition to the psychology! the psychological mumbo jumbo!. all the crap. . Me it's something else! me I'm much more brutal! me I capture all the emotion!. all the emotion on the surface! all at once! I decide! I stick it in the metro! my metro! all t unknown
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
16550The first a T.L.S. "W.J. de la Mare" Hill House Taplow Buckinghamshire 4th. Oct. 1939. He writes that he is "indeed sorry you have felt compelled to give up your work with Mr. Pinker.you have always been so kind to me and I shall hate to think of your not being there. I should of course be interested to hear what the actual difficulties were but that no doubt is a personal thing.". The second letter is dated Oct. 31 1939 also signed "W.J. de la Mare" typed with autograph correction and addition. He writes that he hopes her application to work at the Admiralty will be successful and adds "I am glad you have given me such scope in that 'wholly imciompetent'.". The third T.L.S. dated May the 17th & signed "W.J.dlm" he writes regarding a cheque he has received from Albert Bonnier "in respect to the English Continental Zephyr of Miss M." and with autograph postscript "I hope you havn't been 'Casting any Clouts' - these Winds!". Together with 3 A.L's S from his son Richard to Miss Barton In all 4-sides 8vo. Much Haddam Hall Hertfordshire 20th July 1956 4 Sept. 1957 & 10 April 1959. He sending cheques for "your commission & expenses" and other matters e.g. ".as to Mr. Lockley - in the circumstances I think we had better agree to his using the poems he asked for for a reduced fee of ten guineas" etc. Also an A.L.S. from his daughter Florence Thompson 2-sides 8vo Dykes Henfield Sussex June 17th n.y. ".at the moment we are trying to compile a list of people who have letters from my father & are willing to lend them.I know how much my father appreciated all you did for him & we too know how much this work involved.".WHISTLER THERESA 1927-2007. Biographer of Walter de la Mare. A.L.S. 3-sides 8vo to "Dear Miss Barton" dated Little Place Lyme Regis Dorset Dec. 3rd 1959 -"I am returning your de la Mare letters under separate cover.I have copied passages.which I may wish to quote in the biography.I should be very grateful if you could tell me the facts of the firm's collapse - & what happened to Eric & Ralph Pinker.Eric at any rate went to prison & also that Mr. de la Mare suffered some financial losses himself in the affair." continuing regarding the Pinkers and her forthcoming biography. DUFF LADY JULIET 1881-1865. A.L.S. 3-sides 8vo Bulsbridge House Wilton March 11th n.y. Thanking Miss Barton for her letter and "How very kind of Mr. De La Mare to say that I may have the last 4 lines of 'Trees;' & please forgive my indiotic slip of the pen. I am gradually becoming more & more imbecile.". Together with a T.L.S. and a typed postcard both dated 1950 requesting permission to use some of Walter de la Mare's verse in an anthology; addressed to Faber & Faber and Constable & Co. WALKER JEREMY. A.L.S. 2-sides 86 Cardington Sq. Hounslw 5th March n.y to Miss Barton - "I am compiling an anthology of modern poetry for children and would like to include certain poems by Walter de la Mare. Faber & Faber have told me that you hold the rights of his works.the actual poems are.". unknown
194428641Cambridge. A.L.S. May 13th 1944 1944. 17.5x 11cm 4p. post-marked envelop very good n12. ~ "I greatly hope that when this war is over we shall be able to see each other again & keep up our friendship." At the time of writing the letter Polish-born Casimir Lewy 1919-1991 was on the Faculty of Moral Science at Cambridge University 1943-1945. He became a Fellow of Trinity College in 1958 and the Casimir Library at Cambridge University is named after him. Z. Jordan is noted for his books "Karl Marx. Economic Class and Social Revolution" 1971 & "The Evolution of Dialectical Materialism" 1967 and "Philosophy and Ideology. The Development of Philosophy and Marxism-Leninism in Poland since the Second World War." The letter also includes laid-in a receipt from the Victoria League Club Edinburgh dated June 2 194 under the name "Jordan (Cambridge). A.L.S. May 13th, 1944 unknown
1950008118London: Methuen 1950. First Edition 1st Printing. Boards. Near Fine/Very Good DJ. One Of 3 370 Copies Publisher Out-Of-Print In May 1953. 187 Pp. Purple Cloth Gilt. Signed Neatly By Philosopher And Science-Fiction Writer Stapledon Below His Name On The Title Page And Later Inscribed On The Front Endpaper From Golden Age Literary Agent Forrest J. Ackerman To His Client Golden Age Science Fiction Writer A. E. Van Vogt Winner Of The Retroactive Hugo For "Slan". Included Is Ackerman's Publicity Sheet For Stapledon One Page "The Philosopher Of Fantasy" Circa 1949 Mentioning That Stapledon's Next Book Would Be "A Man Divided" The Sheet Signed At Bottom For Me By Mr. Ackerman. Signed Copies From Stapledon Are Scarce Although Apparently Forrest Ackerman Brought A Number Of Signed Copies Of This Particular Book To America Before Stapledon's Death The Same Year. Ackerman Was A Great Fan Of Stapledon And Was Involved In Promoting His Trip To The Us. This Copy With A Little Rippling To Cloth On Rear Cover With Bleed Through Of The Red Color In A Strip 3/8" Wide Along Bottom And Foredge Of Rear Pastedown No Other Traces Of Damp. Dustjacket Is Unusually Complete With No Chipping Not Price-Clipped Just A 1/8" Closed Tear On Bottom Of Front Panel As Usual But Some Rubbing/Dustiness And Some Fading To Spine Although All Lettering Remains Quite Clear. <br/> <br/> Methuen hardcover
13932New York: Charles F. Tretbar n.y. Paperback. Small. Stiff French-style wrappers. xii 160pp. Illustrations line drawings. Very good. Probable sole edition tight and nice of these essays by the American pianist and teacher 1851-1940. Smith boldly signs a front free endpaper in purple ink adding the curious inscription: "Flee standardized concert / playing -- There is little else" and a postscript "Nine muses inform modern / music." At top is the ownership signature of Chicago pianist John G. Leiser dated 15 August 1926. Laid in is the front portion of the original envelope addressed by Smith and signed at upper left. Uncommon. Charles F. Tretbar paperback
1927024292Losboa Lisbon: Pedro Fazenda 1927. First Edition . Illustrated Wrappers. Near Fine. 9 3/4" Tall. Photographs Throughout. 222 2 Pp. Wrappers Printed With Red Lettering And Black Design Detached And Worn At Edges Spine Perished Entire Contents Intact And Held Together By Binding Cords. Contents Immaculate. Inscribed At Length And With Admiration To Hollywood Screen Actress Louise Fazenda Hollywood Star Of Fame Recipient Dated 6/23/1928. 16 Copies In Worldcat But Quite Uncommon. <br/> <br/> Pedro Fazenda unknown
1960024693Philadelphia / New York: Chilton Company 1960. First Edition Thus 1st Printing. Black Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 12 1/4" Tall. Photographs Throughout. 384 Pp. Black Cloth Stamped In Silver. A Clean Used Book Frayed At Top Of Spine. This Copy Inscribed 'For Dorothy Gish - One Of My Favorite Friends With Love Danny Blum Christmas 1960". Dorothy Gish Has 20 Mentions In The Book. <br/> <br/> Chilton Company hardcover
1990033974New York: Lyle Stuart 1990. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Xi 428 Pp. Blue Cloth Spine Over White Boards. Near Fine In Near Fine Dj Not Price Clipped Very Lightly Used Except For Some Dog-Eared Pages And Pencil Notes By Actress Marjorie Lord Whose Daughter The Actress Anne Archer Was Associated With Scientology; Also With A Note From Archer's Daughter To Lord. <br/> <br/> Lyle Stuart hardcover
19655204bx113<p>Inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Very Good Hardcover with no dust jacket. Red cloth gilt titles all bright. Clean and sound dj flap laid in. 9 1/2" tall; 309 pages</p> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1986045305Ottawa: Oberon Press 1986 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Artist. 1st Canadian Edition. In words and a series of water colour paintings the artist "captured the very feeling and texture of rural life. for eight years he lived in Bridgetown a small village in the Annapolis Valley He painted portraits of his neighbours. of their livestock their houses their farms .more than horses and cows. he had painted a way of life. 60p. illus. Author inscription on title page. Oberon Press hardcover
