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1925037024New York: George H Doran 1925. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. Photographs. 339 Pp. Red Cloth Spine Gilt. First Printing With Doran Logo On Copyright Page. Very Clean Worn And Frayed A Little At Corners Rear Hinge Partly Cracked 5/8" Tear At Bottom Edge Of A Few Pages Near Center. Signed As "Nellie Melba" On The Half-Title. Also Signed By Lewis Addison Armistead A Descendant Of The Civil War General On Front Pastedown And With His Initials On Title Page Dated 1926. <br/> <br/> George H Doran hardcover
1939007133Saturday Evening Post 1939. Typescript . Loose Sheets. Very Good . 14 Pp. Typescript Carbon With Many Typewritten Corrections And Minor Handwritten Changes. Probably The Text For One Of His Radio Talks And For His Saturday Evening Post Article. <br/> <br/> Saturday Evening Post unknown
1997007418Helena MT: Greycliff Pub Co. Signed first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Helena MT: Greycliff Pub Co. 1997 first printing. 4to. 8 3/4" x 11 1/4" xvi366pp. illustrations by Robert Cormier. Signed by Knopp and Cormier on half title with Cormier's signature embellished with the drawing of a mayfly. Small spot on front edge of page block else fine in fine dust jacket. . Fine. Hard. 1st. 1997. Greycliff Pub Co unknown
19633972New York: Original Letter 1963. Original Letter. Near Fine. 5 3/4 X 7 3/4 Inches. Typed Signed Letter TLS from Actress Vivien Leigh of Gone with the Wind fame. On Leigh's personal "Broadway Theatre New York" stationery. Signed in ink by Vivien Leigh. In part: "Thank you. for sending me the resume of your thesis on the death of Falstaff. With every good wish. Yours sincerely Vivien Leigh."Unobtrusive horizontal fold. <br /> <br /> Vivian Leigh 1913-1967 was a two-time Academy Award Winner. The first was for her starring role as "Southern Belle" Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind and the second was for her Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire." Her only Tony Award was won in 1963 for Best Actress in a Musical in the Broadway version of "Tovarich" the year of this letter.<br /> <br /> NOTE: Ralph Edward Schroeder's Thesis for his M.A. at San Diego State College was filed in 1964 under the title "The Holy Dying of Falstaff and its Implications." OCLC locates only one copy at San Diego State. Original Letter unknown
196132929Globe AZ: Dale Stuart King 1961. Hardcover. Illustrations by Harold A. Wolfinbarger Jr. Small 4to. Brown pictorial glazed cloth pictorial dust jacket. xii 307pp. Numerous illustrations line drawings map endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear with several small edge chips mainly at head and tail of spine. First edition as tight and handsome as these matador's pants. Biographies of these famed Mexican bullfighters with a choice autograph addition: Tipped to the half-title page is a 3½" X 2" heavy card boldly signed and inscribed by one of this book's subjects in black ink: "afectuosamente de / su amigo / Manuel Capetillo." Capetillo 1926-2009 is the fifth matador profiled in this well-known chronicle pp. 75-87. Most unusual. Dale Stuart King hardcover
57865Münster Westf. 27. Nov. 1978. . An den Herrn Akad. Oberrat Dr. Peter Freimark "Lieber Herr Freimark! Sie sind so freundlich gewesen uns Ihre . Dokumentation zur 'Kristallnacht' als Geschenk zu übersenden." = Peter Freimark / Wolfgang Kopitzsch: Der 9./10. November 1938 in Deutschland: Dokumentation zur "Kristallnacht" Hamburg 1978. - Rengstorff Gründer u. Leiter des Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum in Münster widmete seine wissenschaftliche Arbeit vor allem dem antiken u. rabbinischen Judentum u. der Geschichte der deutschen Juden. Er bedauert in diesem Brief daß "die Weiterarbeit an der Tosefta leidet" u. bittet P. Freimark Dozent am Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden um Geduld um womöglich im folgenden Jahr die von Freimark bearbeiteten Traktate zu veröffentlichen. - BEILIEGEND als maschinenschriftlicher Durchschlag die Antwort Freimarks vom 4. Dezember d.J. in dem er sein Hilfsangebot für die Tosefta-Herausgabe noch einmal bestätigt. - Mit Kreuzbugfalte Durchschlag mit Knitterspuren. Münster (Westf.), 27. Nov. 1978. unknown
1913024866London: G. Bell & Sons 1913. First Edition . Half Blue Morocco. Near Fine. 8 5/8" Tall. Frontispiece of Marie Tempest. 100 Pp 1 Pp Advt. At End. Bound In Half Blue Morocco Over Cloth Boards Top Edge Gilt Raised Bands On Spine Hand Marbled End Papers. Front Cover And Half Title Bound In Rear Cover Lacking. Inscribed On Half-Title By Henry Arthur Jones To U S Actress Dorothy Gish "Dear Miss Dorothy Gish In Memory Of Pleasant Afternoons With You And Your Crossed Out Mr. Rennie In New York Faithfully Yours Henry Arthur Jones Oct 16 /25". Jones Met Gish When He Traveled To The U S In 1920/1921 And Met Many Stars At The Lasky Corp; He Renewed That Friendship When Gish Was Filming "Nell Gwynn" In 1926 And Was Reportedly Quite Taken With Her. See Taking The Curtain Call P. 295. <br/> <br/> G. Bell & Sons 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
195483744Meudon 1954. Fine. ""What is Normance "" Meudon 1954 20 x 27 cm 16 feuillets 9 pour le premier manuscrit 7 pour le second Two unpublished autograph manuscripts signed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline in blue and red ballpoint pen: the first contains 9 pages numbered in the left-hand corner from 1480 to 1488; the second contains 7 pages numbered from 1498 to 1504. Each text is signed by Céline in red ink at the bottom margin with the words ""Meudon 54"" also in his hand ff. 1485 and 1505. There are numerous variants lines and words crossed out modified and repeated. Traces of pinholes in the upper left-hand margin of every sheet as Céline organized his manuscripts in ""bundles"". Normance was published in 1954 as a sequel to 'Fable for Another Time' published two years earlier. Both parts were written during Céline's years of exile and imprisonment in Denmark. Upon his return to France in 1951 Céline began ""polishing"" his writings and published these two monumental texts initially envisaged as a single book. ""Céline while he was working on it thought of this novel as a second Journey to the End of the Night' twenty years later capable to astonish the public as much as the 1932 novel"" Henri Godard. This set of manuscript pages corresponds to two passages from the second half of the novel Romans Pléiade IV p. 371 to 375 significantly different from the published text. This is an earlier version unknown to scholar Henri Godard as evidenced by a note in the Pléiade edition where he explains the difficulties encountered by Céline's secretary Marie Canavaggia when translating the word ""planqaouzeuze"" - appearing here on one of the manuscript leaves. Her transcription ""plaquouseuze"" eventually remained in the published text. Godard further stated he had no knowledge of this part of the manuscript i.e. our manuscript not appearing in the intermediate versions transcribed and published in the Pléiade edition. The first of the manuscripts recounts the ransacking and looting of psychic Armelle's apartment: ""How many decks did Armelle have Her fortune-telling cards were taking the air! . Ah seeress! Something she hadn't guessed was how her trembles would be tarred! They'd rip open her armchairs crush her fine hiding places! ah Pythonisse! ah the quilt now! the inside of the pillows flies! flies away!"" Céline also evokes Madame Toiselle the building's concierge: ""- It's a mess Madame Toiselle. I yell it at her. she was a maniac! . moron! she's looking now! she's looking good! ah I see her consternation.she's there in front of me on all fours. I can see her head! Her hoe! - Omelette head!"" I shout to her Omelette head'! The second focuses on Raymond in the grip of a delirious crisis thinking he's a donkey: ""Raymond Raymond! but it's your wife you're looking for! it's true he was looking for his wife.! well maybe five minutes ago he was looking for his wife! Denise! . now he's looking for himself. . - Hiian! hiiian! he answers me! There's also a comical settling of scores between Mimi and Rodolphe: ""There goes Mimi then there goes Rodolphe! Rodolphe! they're coming! and how they're treating each other! where were they on the threshold the two of them! they're taking advantage of the lull in the bombs! - Pig! Pimp! - Cabotine! coureuse! and they attack their costumes. "" Remarkable manuscripts bearing witness to Céline's tireless pursuit in finding the right word and his willingness to place himself as a direct witness to events both historical and autobiographical. These unpublished manuscript lines are typical of the Celinian style of this ambitious novel: ""The story style and tone of Normance set it apart from the rest. It is nothing more than the long account of a night of bombing in Montmartre told in his own way by Céline who had been deeply impressed by the spectacle of the bombing of the Renault automobile factories in Boulogne-Billancourt which he had witnessed from the windows of his apart 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
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
1950762671950. Fine. s. d. circa 1950 21 x 27 cm 8 pages sur 8 feuillets & 10 pages sur 10 feuillets Complete unpublished autograph manuscript of a sketch project by Boris Vian entitled ""Deux heures de colles"". Each bundle containing eight and ten sheets respectively is held together with a staple. The first written in different colored inks and featuring numerous crossings-out additions and small marginal drawings comprises two sheets of ideas for the sketch outline one sheet describing its structure and five sheets of text and stage directions. The second less corrected and entirely written in green ink is a final version of the text incorporating the structure and ideas from the first draft without preserving them in their entirety. In these notes never published nor performed the sketch takes place in a classroom where different teachers take turns delivering lessons in each of their subjects. The audience is supposed to form an assembly of unruly pupils and actively participate in the various activities imagined by Vian. The shameless teachers mistreat the pupils: ""vous êtes des khons de lamentables ratés . quelques interrogations auxquelles je vais procéder maintenant vont vous démontrer mieux qu'un long discours à quel point vous être abrutis."" ""you are fools pathetic failures . a few questions which I shall now proceed with will demonstrate to you better than a long speech just how stupid you are."" The text very humorous and remarkably modern recalls the genre of current ""talk shows"" and their cascades of gags and games. We thus find a large number of fanciful subjects designed to structure the different interventions: ""cours du supporter de match"" ""sports fan class"" ""cours de digest"" ""digest class"" ""cours d'optimisme bourgeois"" ""bourgeois optimism class"" ""cours de liberté"" ""freedom class"" ""cours de diffamation"" ""defamation class"" ""cours d'exploitation de psychanalyse"" ""psychoanalysis exploitation class"" etc. We perceive Vian's nostalgia for the past and his fascination with the future: ""Vous voyez 1900 avec 50 ans de recul avec vos yeux de 1950 mais pour les gens de l'an 2000 1950 sera aussi charmant que 1900 pour nous. Apprenez à voir votre époque avec les yeux de l'an 2000."" ""You see 1900 with 50 years' hindsight with your 1950 eyes but for people in the year 2000 1950 will be as charming as 1900 is for us. Learn to see your era through the eyes of the year 2000."" His love of cars also shows through in the staging of a ""type qui rentre par le fond de la scène dans un bruit effrayant avec sa traction une calandre ou un moteur sous le bras ."" ""fellow who enters from the back of the stage with a frightening noise with his Citroën a grille or engine under his arm ."" Visionary Vian This text is in any case imbued with ecological awareness: ""Le professeur insiste sur le gâchis qui caractérise la société actuelle et l'intérêt par conséquent d'un cours de récupération des produits inutilisés."" ""The teacher insists on the waste that characterizes current society and the interest consequently of a class on recovering unused products."" The brilliant inventor in any case envisages presenting a recycling ""machine"" ""machine"" to his audience. He also denounces under cover of humor the shortage of Parisian housing and its poor layout: ""on ne trouvait pas d'appartement à cause des collectionneurs d'appartements . Ce qui est difficile c'est de vivre dans les appartements qu'on vous propose ; mais quelques-uns de nos anciens élèves qui ont eu la chance de faire un stage dans un immeuble d'essai construit par Le Cornemusier vont vous faire une démonstration. . façon de vivre en rampant en rampant dans les appartements extrêmement bas de plafond."" ""you couldn't find an apartment because of apartment collectors . What's difficult is living in the apartments they offer you; but some of our former students who had the chance to do an internship in a test building con unknown
187275733Nohant Nohant-Vic 1872. Fine. Nohant Nohant-Vic 19 semptembre 1872 13.20 x 20.60 cm 20 pages 1/2 sur 21 feuillets Autograph manuscript signed by George Sand written in black ink on 21 leaves of white paper. Deletions and corrections. One page of the manuscript appears to have been lost. The final version of this chronicle whose text conforms to the manuscript we offer was published in Impressions et souvenirs Paris M. Lévy 1873. George Sand would devote another article to her son's novel in Questions d'art et de littérature in 1878. The first edition of Maurice Sand's Coq aux cheveux d'or was published by Lacroix and Verboeckhoven in 1867. unknown
186076834s. l. 1860. Fine. s. l. s. d. ca 1860 19.60 x 31.70 cm deux pages sur un feuillet Autograph manuscript by Gustave Flaubert entitled ""De l'état de l'église en Gaule au Ve et VIe siècle"" written in black ink on both sides of a sheet. Transverse fold. Extensive manuscript notes probably written in preparation for the writing of La Légende de Saint Julien l'Hospitalier. Precious manuscript evidence of the writer's working method. unknown
1899622111899. Fine. 1899 17.80 x 23.10 cm 2 feuillets et un quart Autograph manuscript signed by Octave Mirbeau for his article ""Au conseil municipal"" published in Le Journal on July 12 1899 90 lines in black ink on three leaves manuscript correction by the author typographical indications in blue pencil. Staining due to ink and paper. Significant of the denunciatory attitude that Mirbeau maintained in his articles this manuscript critical of the unworthy treatment of artists of genius by society is a final draft used for printing as indicated by the capital letters that delimit the paragraphs. The original leaves have been remounted on laid paper here pages from an 18th-century work Dissertatio Medica to facilitate their handling. unknown
1902613441902. Fine. 1902 18.10 x 22.90 cm 2 feuillets et un quart Autograph manuscript signed by Octave Mirbeau 99 lines in black ink on 3 leaves with manuscript corrections by the author and one correction in blue pencil by a typographer. Manuscript used for the composition and printing of the article ""Habitudes"" published on April 20 1902 in the Journal a daily newspaper launched in 1892 by Fernand Xau. The beginning of Mirbeau's career was essentially driven by journalism which allowed him to publish and earn a living despite his lack of inclination for the activity. Quickly feared for his pamphleteering activity Gustave Mirbeau distilling a biting irony stands here against injustice institutionalized by the State and society. Led by the dense and effective writing of Gustave Mirbeau this manuscript is probably a final draft as suggested by the conformity of the two texts and the rare corrections made to the original notably by the blue pencil of a typographer. On the verso of the last leaf is found an earlier version of the first lines of the article. unknown
1840640991840. Fine. s. d. circa 1843 13.20 x 21.90 cm 4 feuillets Admirable set of four manuscript fragments of chapter XI of the Voyage d'Espagne which exposes behind the scenes of Gautier's writing which guided by the romantic taste for the picturesque relates his stays in Madrid and Ocaña and his passages by La Guardia and Tembleque . Gautier adopts an astonishing working format revealing the intimate / particular process of writing where flying sheets of different sizes very tight writing and corrections and inks of different colors come together. Originally intended for a publication in the press Gautier's article itself seduced by Spanish exoticism satisfies the search for picturesque then at its peak in France: "" The perpetual carousel of the fans that open close throb and flap like butterflies trying to land; the elbow movements of the women grouping themselves in their mantillas and correcting the inflection of an unsightly fold; the glances launched from one cross to the other to the people of knowledge; the pretty nod of the head and the graceful gesture which accompanies the agur by which the senhoras reply to the horsemen who salute them; the colorful crowd intertwined with Gallegos Pasiegas Valencians Manolas and water vendors "" Gautier establishes links between known references to Spain: Don Quixote and finds picaresque resonances in the adventures he saw: They were men Beyond the simple satisfaction of the public Gautier offers a glimpse of the Spanish character and bon vivant: sobriety and the patience of the Spaniards to endure fatigue is something that is prodigious. They remained Arabs on this point. One can not go further than the oblivion of material life. But these soldiers who lacked bread and shoes had a guitar. unknown
1992042923Toronto: HarperCollins 1992 Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Canadian Edition. The story of a return visit to his ancestral home in Ceylon his memories of his father and the tale of the man-eating leopard that terrorized the village Punanai in the early part of this century. 205p. illusSigned by author on title page else new Author signature on title page 205p. illus Crisp tight copy looks unread NOTE' HEAVY 1.2 kg Oversized voume . HarperCollins hardcover
1334899215.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19595063bx104<p>Inscribed and signed by the author ffep in the year of publication: "To Anne and George/ two of my favorite people/ Constance C. Wright/ March 30 1959". Blue cloth mild lightening at edges tanning to endpapers. tattered dj with back flap detached but present price intact. </p> Henry Holt hardcover
1940024673New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1940. First Edition . Boards. Very Good /DJ Flap Only. 10 1/4" Tall. Original Drawing By Robert Edmond Jones. 88 Pp. An Attractive Example Well Preserved Age Toning To Spine And Top Edge Of Boards Unfaded Hinges Tight Small Loss Along Top Edge Of Spine. Inscribed By Almost All Cast Members "To Dorothy"; From A Collection Of Books From The Estate Of Dorothy Gish Who Had A Role In The Play. <br/> <br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
133456888X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
