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196659539Paris: Gallimard 1966. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1966 14 x 20.50 cm broché First edition an advance service de presse copy. Autograph inscription signed by Jean Genet to Margaret Bendy. Illustrations. Spine slightly sunned not serious. Gallimard unknown
196346927Paris: Marc Barbezat 1963. Third edition - the first theatre edition with the illustrations taken from Blin's original production. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the half title leaf "A Brion Souvenir amical de Jean Genet". The recipient was the artist Brion Gysin. Octavo. Photographic illustrations by Ernest Scheidegger. Original photographic wrappers. Edges lightly rubbed backstrip creased. Very good. unknown
1947NE23Paul Morihien 1947. Book. Very Good. No Binding. 1st Edition. n 1947 Paul Morihien published a clandestine edition of Querelle de Brest by Jean Genet featuring 29 very explicit erotic drawings by Cocteau. 28 of 29 lithographs by Cocteau only. 4to loose as issued portfolio; with original glassine Paris 1947 Approximately 10 by 12 a partial set of a suite of plates issued separately. SURPRESSED! . Paul Morihien unknown
194732852Paris: Les cinéastes bibliophiles 1947. Fine. Les cinéastes bibliophiles Paris 1947 13 x 19 cm broché First edition strictement hors commerce and of 60 numbered copies on Lana this one for the actress Simone Renant. Spine and covers slightly spotted and sunned in the margins. Les cinéastes bibliophiles unknown
1958153103Décines: L'Arbalète 1958. May our friendship remain always so beautiful for you despite the torments of life First edition limited issue number 2150 of 3200 copies from a total edition of 3535 this copy warmly inscribed by the author on the dedication page "Décembre 64 A Henri Avec le plus profonde affection Jean Que notre amitié resté pour toi toujours si belle malgré les tourments de la vie". The inscription reads "To Henri with deepest affection Jean may our friendship remain always so beautiful for you despite the torments of life" our translation. On 12 October 1955 Le Figaro announced that the Belgian actor and director Raymond Rouleau had commissioned Genet to write a play for Black actors. The subsequent work was dedicated to Genet's lover the German-Algerian acrobat Abdallah Bentaga. Les Nègres opened under the direction of Roger Blin at the Théâtre de Lutèce on 28 October 1959 and was the longest-running off-Broadway play of the 1960s. It played to full houses every evening until its close on 4 April 1960 and won the Grand Prix de la Critique for 1959. The total edition comprised 3200 copies numbered 1 to 3200; 250 copies hors commerce marked "HC"; 50 copies on japon reserved for the author; 32 copies marked i to xxxii; and three copies hors commerce reserved for the publishers. Octavo. Original white wrappers lettered in black facsimile of the author's handwriting by Mourlot edges untrimmed many uncut. A few tiny spots of foxing to spine spine ends a little creased and rubbed with tiny chip to head else square and sharp. A near-fine copy. unknown
194992070Paris: Gallimard 1949. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1949 14 x 21 cm Relié First edition one of the press service copies.A faint waterstain affecting the centre of the final leaves.Bradel binding in patterned paper-covered boards smooth spine black oasis morocco lettering-piece wrappers and spine preserved.Precious presentation inscription signed by Jean Genet to Claude Romain who created the role of Maurice in this play: ""à Claude Romain petit gamin et déjà grand comédien. Ton pote Jean Genet.""High Surveillance was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre des Mathurins on 26 February 1949 directed by Jean Marchat with Tony Taffin Claude Romain Robert Hossein and Jean-Marc Lambert in the cast.Claude Romain also appeared in films by Marcel Carné including ""La Marie du port"" and by Robert Hamer notably ""Deux anglaises à Paris"" and ""Deux anglais à Paris"". Gallimard hardcover
195868103Paris: Marc Barbezat 1958. First edition first printing. From a total edition of 3535 copies this is one of just 32 printed on Japon nacre imperial and numbered in roman. The top paper issue. Rare. Octavo. Original wrappers printed in black. Fine copy. unknown
1943Genet3<p><b>GENET Jean 1910-1986</b></p><p>Fragment of an autograph poemN.p.n.d Paris prison de la Santé – 1943 1/4 p. in4°Slightly frayed left margin</p><p><b>Precious first draft fragment of a poem composed in Prison and attached to "La Parade" unpublished in its manuscript version</b></p><p><i>Canaille oserez-vous me mordre une autre fois </i><i>Retenez que je suis le page du Monarque.</i><i>Vous roulez sous ma main comme un flot sous ma barque.</i><i>Votre houle me gonfle ô ma caille des bois.</i></p><p><i>ma caille emmitouflée écrasée sous mes doigts.</i></p><p>Genet's versified work translates into six long pieces collected in a 1948 collection soberly titled <i>Poèmes</i>.</p><p>By far the most composite of the poems published in the volume and the last one that summons the prison universe "La Parade" whose title is also that of one of Rimbaud's most enigmatic <i>Illuminations</i> is composed of eight partially autonomous pieces almost all of which were probably written in 1943.</p><p>This fragment is composed of a rhyming quatrain embraced and a monostic. We immediately note the presence of a punctuation almost entirely absent only two commas and an end period remain in the collection published in 1948 and taken as it is in the edition of the Pleiade as well as a variant: "et morte" becomes "écrasée".Finally we note that the hyphenation at the hemstitch in the monostic does not show a comma unlike the published version.</p><p><u>Reference:</u>Jean Genet <i>Romans et poèmes</i> éd. Emmanuelle Lambert et Gilles Philippe Pléiade p. 1068</p>
1949153061Paris: Gallimard 1949. A scarce inscribed copy of the author's autobiographical novel First trade edition warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title "à Jean Dutourd et à sa femme mes amitiés sincères. Toute ma gentille sympathie á fort de gentillesse. Mais c'est votre fillette qui est encore la plus adorable Jean Genet" "to Jean Dutourd and his wife my sincere friendship. All my kind sympathy to so much kindness. But it's your little girl who is still the most adorable Jean Genet". This recipient was the novelist and member of the Académie française Jean Dutourd 1920-2011 his wife Camille and their daughter Clara who was three years old at the time of publication. As a critic Dutourd had largely respected Genet as a writer with "a deep mind an original poetic gift and complete intrepidity in his writings" quoted in Jablonka our translation. However he was affronted by Genet's final play The Screens 1961 and wrote a particularly scathing review for France Soir. Comprising 17 individual scenes The Screens depicts an Arab insurrection against a buffoonish colonial power: a thinly veiled satire on French colonial power that references both the French conquest of Algeria in the 1840s and the then-ongoing Algerian War 1954-1962. An abridged version of The Screens premiered in Berlin in May 1961 and it was first performed in its entirety in Stockholm in 1964. Its French premier wasn't until April 1966 when it debuted at the Odéon theatre under the direction of Roger Blin. Dutourd joined a sea of critical animosity denouncing Genet as a once-great poet who had become "an official artist who like the others has made a career out of the uprising and has done well for it" quoted in Jablonka our translation. Journal du Voleur was first circulated earlier the same year in a limited edition of 410 copies for subscribers published anonymously by Albert Skira. The present edition was partially redacted by Genet to remove some of the more risqué elements. This semi-autobiographical novel follows its debauched criminal protagonist across Europe as he appropriates Christian language inverts virtues and vices and creates a religion of criminality in opposition to the society which has shaped him. Journal du voleur is dedicated to Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir and prompted Sartre's 1952 essay "Saint Genet" an attempt to "prove that genius is not a gift but the way out that one invents in desperate cases" quoted in Gaitet p. 16. Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in red and black fore and lower edges untrimmed. Spine toned and a little creased with tiny chips to ends short closed tears to ends of rear joints lower corners lightly creased wrappers and lower edge a touch soiled contents toned. A very good copy indeed. Pascale Gaitet Queens and Revolutionaries New Readings of Jean Genet 2003; Ivan Jablonka Les Vérités inavouables de Jean Genet 2004. unknown
195688864Paris: Marc Barbezat 1956. One of the masterpieces of our time First edition first printing number XVII from a limited issue of 32 copies on japon nacre imperial from a total edition of 3233. The play mostly takes place outside of an upmarket brothel in a city during a revolutionary uprising. Critic Martin Esslin hailed it as "one of the masterpieces of our time" quoted in Savona. It exists in three distinct versions published in French in 1956 1960 and 1962. This first version was written between January and September 1955 and Genet took his initial inspiration from Franco's Spain. The Giacometti lithographs on the front wrapper depict a tall elegant Irma the Bishop made to resemble Gener and the General with his whip. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers titles and lithographic illustrations by Giacometti to both wrappers and the backstrip in black edges uncut and partly unopened. With the original glassine jacket. Very light toning to edges of the otherwise exceptionally bright and fresh wrappers. An excellent copy in the lightly edge-chipped and partly toned glassine jacket. Jeannette Savona Jean Genet 1983. unknown
1955Genet4<p><strong>GENET Jean 1910-1986</strong></p><p>First draft manuscript<br />N.p.n.d c. 1955 3/4 p. in-4° in blue ink on lined paper<br />Numerous repentirs by the author</p><p><strong>Unpublished and provocative manuscript about the Algerian war</strong></p><p><strong><u>From the</u></strong><u> <strong>B. & R. Broca</strong> <strong>collection</strong></u></p><p><em>" Me revoici</em><br /><em>Belles gonzesses de France préparez vos miches !</em><br /><em>Je rentre d'Algérie une patte en moins trois doigts coupés mais le reste en bon état.</em><br /><em>Rappellez-vous</em> sic<em> de moi. Vous me reconnaîtrez : il y a dix ans j'étais milicien chez les Boches. Entre temps j'ai rôti du Viet au feu des paillottes. Les vaches ils nous ont tous foutu dehors à coup de pompes dans l'ognon. Heureusement il y a eu l'Algérie ! Alors là pardon je me suis régalé avec la viande de Bic ! J'en ai crevé quelques-uns et c'en est devenu du vice. J'ai défoncé des moukères : J'en ai même travaillé une à coup de talons dans le bide. Elle avait deux mômes dans le ventre deux sales petits Bicots qui ne ne couperont pas</em> les <em>jolies couilles de petit Français ! </em><br /><em>Je rentre mesdames je rentre moi votre petit milicien de 44. </em><br /><em>Une patte en moins je vous l'ai dit mais le reste en bon état. Alors dites à vos hommes de se barrer là bas pour continuer le boulot et me laisser dans vos draps une petite place bien chaude pour moi votre petit milicien bien aimé et boiteux. </em><br /><em>Vos mâles J'espère bien qu'on les arrangera comme moi ! "</em></p><p>Entirely unpublished this text seems to be linked to the play <em>Les Paravents</em> first performed on 16 April 1966 at the Théâtre de l'Odéon. Although the complete manuscript of the work as we know it was written in 1961 we nevertheless know that the first drafts were composed as early as 1955. Genet made profound changes and this sequence a monologue by a colonist was probably discarded.<br />The text deliberately provocative embodies here more than ever the moral intellectual and sexual transgression of its author. Strongly committed to anti-colonialism Genet expressed his position not only through his work but also through political combat. He thus took a violent stand against France during the Algerian War and pleaded more generally the cause of independence.</p><p><u>We would like to thank Albert Dichy for confirming the unpublished nature of this document</u></p>
195640848Décines Décines-Charpieu: Marc Barbezat 1956. Fine. Marc Barbezat Décines Décines-Charpieu 1956 15 x 20.50 cm broché First edition one of 32 numbered copies on Japon nacré the tirage de tête. Illustrated covers with an original lithograph by Alberto Giacometti. Slight worming to spine. A good well-margined copy. Marc Barbezat unknown
196872719s. l.: S. n. 1968. Fine. S. n. s. l. s. d. circa 1968 22 x 29 cm 6 feuillets 1/4 Unpublished autograph manuscript comprising 6 and a quarter leaves written in black ink containing around twenty notes and digressive reflections relating to the exercise of power. - ""Where does the law come from From power. The law is the voice and instrument of power. Power precedes the law and gives birth to it."" - ""The working masses are not about to accept nor to consider as political the rape of a little girl nor of a little boy. We live in such a moral climate that it first makes us pity the pain of the parents it makes us reject the cruelty of the act. The worker needs a certain respectability in order to stand equal here with the present bourgeois classes the aristocracy has disappeared. We must look ever more closely at what servile labor consists of and what it entails."" - ""Work as a virtue fostered a new morality and if it was all the more distant and disregarded by the aristocrat the people held to it. I am not speaking of what broke out in 1789 but of what was gradually formed as serfs escaped in one way or another from serfdom. In 1789 this new morality had reached its point and what had carried it word illegible to the extreme had become what was called the bourgeoisie. Bound to this new morality of work they also aspired to an 'imitation'but an imitation onlyand the morality was stronger than the still prestigious pretensions of the declining nobility."" - ""If there is an essence of power it remains hidden. But the manifestation of power even if not ostentatious seeks to be recognized and visible. For instinct one must accept the enigma."" - ""Rousseau a foundling abandons his children to public care: no one cares. It is probable that Dostoevsky raped a little girl: no one cares. The Brothers Karamazov is indeed a revolutionary book."" S. n. unknown
195838387Décines Décines-Charpieu: Marc Barbezat 1958. Fine. Marc Barbezat Décines Décines-Charpieu 1958 15.50 x 20.50 cm broché First edition one of 32 numbered copies on Japon nacre paper the tirage de tête. A fine copy. Marc Barbezat unknown
195841929Décines Décines-Charpieu: Marc Barbezat 1958. Fine. Marc Barbezat Décines Décines-Charpieu 1958 15 x 19.50 cm relié sous étui First edition one of 32 numbered copies on nacré Japon the tirage de tête. Bound in full embossed khaki leather smooth spine without lettering the title of the work and the author's name in gilt on the front cover reproducing the calligraphy of the original wrapper publishers name and place in gilt on the back cover likewise reproducing the calligraphy of the rear wrapper endpapers and pastedowns of wood-grain effect almond paper wrappers and spine preserved top edge gilt; slipcase covered with wood-grain effect almond paper echoing the binding and bearing on the covers the same features as the binding. A few small spots of foxing on the spine and upper edge slightly affecting the boards internally very clean. A rare copy spectacularly and perfectly presented. Marc Barbezat hardcover
194263635Fresnes: S. n. 1942. Fine. S. n. Fresnes 1942 14 x 21.50 cm en feuilles sous couverture rose First edition of Jean Genet's debut work written at Fresnes printed in a few copies and published at the authors expense which appeared clandestinely while he was serving a prison sentence for book theft. The pamphlet thirteen pages unbound and unpaginated was printed on brown paper under a pink or white cover. Our copy is housed in a half old-rose box chemise boards of geometrically patterned paper slipcase trimmed in old-rose box the ensemble signed by Thomas Boichot. « J'ai dédié ce poème à la mémoire de mon ami Maurice Pilorge dont le corps et le visage radieux hantent mes nuits sans sommeil. ». Thus Jean Genet explained the genesis of this poem a tribute to « l'assassin de 20 ans » guillotined with whom he shared the last forty days. According to François Sentein biographer of Maurice Pilorge L'Assassin et son bourreau the two men never actually met and Jean Genet would make him into an imagined companion « mort avec l'insouciance d'un dandy » Edmund White Jean Genet. Jean Cocteau who would become both friend and guardian angel to Jean Genetsaving him from life imprisonment a few years laterwrote in his Journal: « Parfois il m'arrive un miracle. Par exemple Le Condamné à mort de Jean Genet. Je crois qu'il n'en existe que quatre exemplaires. Il a déchiré le reste. Ce long poème est une splendeur. Jean Genet sort de Fresnes la plaquette est datée de la prison « Fresnes septembre 1942 ». Poème érotique à la gloire de Maurice Pilorge assassin de vingt ans exécuté le 12 mars 1939 à Saint-Brieuc. L'érotisme de Genet ne choque jamais. Son obscénité n'est jamais obscène. Un grand mouvement magnifique domine tout. La prose qui débute est courte insolente hautaine. Style parfait. » Extremely rare and very attractive copy as published. S. n. hardcover
1949124273Geneva: aux dépens d'un ami 1949. The first numbered copy with Genet's birthday card to a friend Signed limited edition large paper issue the tirage de tête number 1 of 10 copies numbered in roman numerals signed by Genet and printed on Vélin d'Arches paper from a complete edition of 410. Laid in is an autograph note written by Genet slipped inside a rice-paper birthday card with mawkish hand-painted decorations. The first part of the inscription in a neat hand satirizes the sentimentality of the card with a string of asinine rhymes: "Cette carte se mange comme le pain des anges mon âme de la fange tirée par vous ô Lange qui êtes sans mélange sauf de fleurs et d'oranges votre âme dans ses langes purifierait le Gange. Dans le ciel des mésanges on hurle vos louanges" "This card can be eaten like angel's bread my soul of mire pulled by you oh swaddling sheets unadulterated except for flowers and oranges your swaddling soul would purify the Ganges. In the blue tits' sky they howl your praise". The second part in a much looser hand - "Eh bien ma petite mon ange je suis très simple très gentil et je ne vous souhaite en vous embrassant que du bonheur votre Plantagenet" "Well my sweet little thing my angel I am very simple very kind and as I kiss you I only want to wish you happiness your Plantagenet" - recalls the interrogation scene in Miracle de la Rose 1946 in which the narrator's name "Genet" is turned into "Plantagenet" by the interrogator. Loose quarto quires held in the original card chemise lithographed chemise titles half-title title and dedication page. With the original grey card slipcase. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Chemise faintly tanned tiny closed tear at head of spine light spotting to lower margins; slipcase a little rubbed at extremities and with one tiny stain. A bright and fresh copy in excellent condition. unknown
1942172551Fresnes: September 1942. Presentation copy of Genet's rare debut with his corrections First edition first printing presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page to his friend Boris Kochno and with several authorial manuscript corrections. Genet wrote the poem while imprisoned in Fresnes for bibliolarceny. The manuscript was smuggled out and privately printed in a tiny edition. The inscription reads thus: "à Boris ces quelques mots mais bien davantage parce qu'il aime déjà Guy plutôt qu'à cause de sa sympathie par mon poème - Jean Genet" "These few words are for Boris but much more because he already likes Guy than because of his appreciation for my poem". Kochno 1904-1990 was celebrated for his work for the Ballets Russes and Les Ballets des Champs-Elysées which helped reinvigorate the art in France. Genet's biographer Edmund White credits a small circle of distinguished gay artists to whom Kochno belonged with inspiring Genet to write about homosexuality with such unprecedented frankness and power. The individual to whom the inscription refers is likely Lucien-Guy Noppé nicknamed Guy Genet's fellow inmate and lover. Noppé was a major inspiration for Miracle de la rose 1946 and Journal du voleur 1949 and was the subject of various poems penned by the author such as "Boxeur endormi" and "À Guy". On 21 July 1943 Genet sent the latter poem in manuscript to both Kochno and Kochno's lover Christian Bérard. The couple later designed the set for Genet's play Les Bonnes 1947. Variants in pink wrappers have been noted without priority. Octavo pp. 16. Original white wrappers printed in black pages loose within as issued. Housed in a custom black solander box. Faint foxing to lightly creased wrappers small burnt hole to front cover internally fresh. A well-preserved copy of this fragile publication. see Edmund White Jean Genet 1993 p. 226. unknown
194791769n. l.: Paul Morihiens. n. 1947. Fine. One of a 9-copy issue of this celebrated clandestine novel with an original drawing by Cocteau Paul Morihien s. n. n. l. s. d. 1947 ; lettre : fin mars 1944 25 x 32.5 cm En feuilles sous chemise et étui First edition. One of 10 copies on vélin de Lana lettered G around which Genet has signed in blue ink signed by Genet at the limitation page most limited deluxe issue except for a unique copy. Complete with the loose leaf beginning with Une brusque lassitude.. With an autograph letter signed by Jean Genet on one page with customary fold marks from mailing published in Edmund White Jean Genet pp. 260-261. Illustrated with 29 erotic lithographs by Jean Cocteau and an original pencil drawing by Cocteau as well as a suite of the illustrations presenting some foxing on certain plates. Loose leaves in the publishers wrappers and laced slipcase with the upper board detached wood slipcase square spine with slide mechanism on the spine bearing the title and author engraved in red. An exceptional copy with a suite of the illustrations on Chine paper and an original drawing by Cocteau also featured in the book on p. 177. Also with an important autograph letter signed dating from late March 1944 written by Jean Genet to Maurice Toesca thanks to whom he avoided being sent to a concentration camp. Maurice Toesca a senior official at the Prefecture of Police as well as a prolific novelist biographer and literary critic had met Genet in 1944 on the request of Cocteau to secure his release: Sir Even had Monsieur Jean Cocteau not told me I would have understood the part you played in my release for you are poetrys representative at the Prefecture and my simple thanks would seem poor recompense for the marvellous gift you have given me. I am deeply sorry not to be able to offer you of all people a poem; but at least my heart is full of warm feeling toward you. Do not laugh Monsieur Toesca if you hear me speak of friendship it is still the finest thing I have to give. Please accept mine. Need I tell you again how desperate I was sunk in a darkness from which I no longer hoped to emerge and truly darkness it was for I had contemplated staking everything on an escape attempt whose most likely outcome was death the guards were terribly well armed! I tell you this nonetheless so that you may know my joy when the inspector came to announce my release. Monsieur Dubois was splendid; I should be glad if he could learn from you that I hold him in the deepest gratitude. My happiness is such that I could embrace everyone who helped bring this about. Monsieur Toesca it is a very thankful old thug who dares to shake your hand. translation our own Querelle de Brest was published clandestinely by Paul Morihien Jean Cocteaus secretary. Cocteau is responsible for the masterly and sensuous and unsigned illustrations. A portion of the five hundred and twenty-four copies printed were seized by the police the following year during a raid on the bookshop run by Morihien just steps from Cocteaus apartment at the Palais-Royal. After Genets wartime tribulations Cocteau came once more to his aid this time to spare him a life sentence: convicted for a third time and facing transportation to a penal colony Genet obtained a Presidential pardon through the intervention of Cocteau and Sartre. Querelle de Brest was adapted for the screen in 1982 by Rainer W. Fassbinder. A superb copy of this masterpiece a true cornerstone of homosexual and queer literary culture where the criminal underworld mingles with almost metaphysical ecstasy. [Paul Morihien]s. n. unknown
