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Deuxieme numero de Chroniques. Le Roseau d'or. Oeuvres et chroniques 10. Includes 'les jeunes visiteurs' traduit de l'anglais par M. Sachs avec une preface de Jean Cocteau. Signed and inscribed by Maurice Sachs
19261258baRParis France: Plon-Nourrit 1926. Book. Very good- condition. Paperback. Signed by Authors. First French edition. Octavo 8vo. vi 397 pages of text including table. Paperback binding; original blue printed paper wrappers with numerous small creases and tears and extremities and a few tiny chips at top of spine; protected in custom stiff archival mylar and further protected by a custom made gray and navy linen clam-shell box with printed spine label. Measues 20 cm in height. Illustrated with a historic photograph of Ashford as a girl and a facsimile of the first page of the original manuscript. Pages 133-221 contain the French translation of "The young visitors" which Ashford wrote at age 9; it was first published in 1919. This edition with an introduction by Cocteau and translated by Maurice Sachs who was Cocteau's secretary at the time. Sachs has inscribed and signed the book on the half-title page in the year of publication. Sachs was a black marketeer anti-semitic collaborateur went to Germany 1943 to work with Gestapo arrested and shot 1945. Contains the following works: "La messagere de la politique divine" by Humbert Clerissac; "Renoncer a toute richesse" "Jeunesse lacustre" and "Angoisses et autres" by Max Jacob; "Et le sentiment de la mort" by Charles Maurras; "Et sa pensee" by Paul Valery; "Et le soldat" by Anatole France; "Si Peguy etait la." by Henri Massis; "Le destin de la culture" by Nicholas Berdiaeff; "Scenes dans le paradis" by Justin Klotz; "Les freres caches" by Jean Aurenche; "Daisy en France" by Jean Cocteau; "Les jeunes visiteurs ou le plan de Mr. Salteeana" by Daisy Ashford; "Veillee" by Alfredo Gangotena; "Erasme et Thomas Morus contre Machiavel ou la politique et la morale" by Emile Dermenghem; "La traversee inutile" by Julien Green; "I. Mariage" and "II. Les bisons Porteciel" by Paul Sabon; "La Chine et les missions" by Leopold Levaux; "Les traces de Dieu dans la vie de Jacques Riviere" by Jules Lebreton; "Lettre a Frederic Lefevre" by Georges Bernanos. Plon-Nourrit Paperback
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