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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 books
11646France: Draeger No date. First edition. Paperback. Very Good . Tall folio edition 15" tall by 12" wide. Text in French by Cocteau. Contains eleven loose color plates by Charles Martin demonstrating the prolific printing talents of Draeger. Art Deco illustrations. Contents very clean and ready for separate framing if one so desired. Thick paper covers show some light wear and mild staining but an exceptional copy overall of this scarce book. No date listed but likely from the mid 1920's. Draeger paperback books
1972180471New York: Dover Publications 1972. Softcover. VG-. rough edge-wear to front cover. rubbing to spine top. curling to cover. neat previous owners name to cover flyleaf. pgs clean; edge toned. glossy illustrated wrappers w/ grey printing. book x 52 pgs w/ 77 bw & color plates. Illustrations of Leon Bakst's stage sets and costumes for the Ballet Russe accompany synopses of the plays by Cocteau for which they were designed. The explosion of the Ballets Russes on the Paris stage in the early years of this century marked the beginning of a great new age in dance. Traditions were shattered an almost superhuman new talent was introduced Nijinsky a new approach to ballet was created and explored and perhaps most important every facet of the art from music to set design was in the hands of a superior artist. Leon Bakst the Ballets Russes's costume and set designer was an outstanding member of the group; his visual imagination is lastingly associated with the greatest years of the modern ballet. This book presents in 48 full color and 29 black and white plates the art of Leon Bakst from costumes and set designs to independent paintings. Here are reproductions of Bakst's own water colors for the unforgettable costumes of L'Oiseu de Feu Cleopatre Scheherazade Narcisse Salome Dphnis et Chloe Carnaval and other major ballets. Some of these costume were designed for Nijinksy or for Ida Rubinstein or Tamara Karsavina. Here are the rajahs high priests sultans eunuchs nymphs bacchantes Boeotians harlequin faun Indian dancers and all the rest of the fabulous figures that appeared in these productions. Here is also the scenery the elaborate paintings in which the colors are so vivid that they seem to become almost palpable. The costumes show Bakst's genius for 'line and color in movement' and all represent his original contribution to the freshness and uniqueness of the Ballets Russes.--FirstSearch. Dover Publications unknown books
