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1946170216009Washington DC: Black Sun Press 1946. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Volume III Spring 1946. Complete in 31 broadsides numbered 1-28 with Book reviews plus "Cover Leaf" and "Foreleaf" in fragile yellow wraps with pockets. One of approximately 1000 copies. Krumhansl 1. Very Good overall. Wraps as is typical are in fair shape-- split foxed and chipped. Occaisional corner bumping edge chipping and slight creasing to broadsides; foxing spot on TOC page. Bukowski broadside lightly foxed with a bit of edge wear. Apart from being a literary magazine composed of beautifully-printed broadsides with Henry Miller as its prose editor this issue is quite scarce complete featuring contributions from such 20th Century luminaries as Henry Miller Sartre Boyle Genet Garcia Lorca Rexroth and the first separate publication of Charles Bukowski preceding his first book Flower Fist and Bestial Wail by 14 years. Black Sun Press paperback books
197730222Monrovia CA: Little Caesar 1977. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Stapled stiff wrappers. The uncommon second issue of Dennis Cooper and Jim Glaeser's small press literary magazine. 44 pp. Includes contributions by Padgett Lyn Lifshin Wayne McNeil Gerald Locklin and more. A clean very good copy in stapled photo-illustrated wrappers. Small prior owner name. 44 pp. Little Caesar paperback books
19661328746London: Victor Gollancz 1966. Hardcover. Octavo; G/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine tan with red and blue print; DJ in cellophane protector light edgewear toning to spine cellophane has small stains and is chipping at top of spine price-clipped; Boards in blue cloth with gold print mild wear to corners and spine caps else clean and strong; Text block clean and tight but for tanning to single page of rear endpapers; 615 pages. 1328746. FP New Rockville Stock. Victor Gollancz hardcover books
198570327sNew York: Random House 1985. First Edition. Octavo cloth hardcover xix 507 pp. Photos portraits. Near-Fine in dust jacket. Random House, [1985]. First Edition. hardcover books
1999293596Zurich: Galerie Art Focus 1999. paperback. near fine. Alberto Giocometti. In German and English. Illustrated color and black & white. 96 pages. 4to paper wrappers. Zurich: Galerie Art Focus 1999. A near fine copy.<br/><br/> Essay by Jean Genet.<br/><br/> Galerie Art Focus unknown books
10094French writer and political activist with a troubled past of crime who later took to writing. He produced several autobiographical novels in which he depicted the rejection of the bourgeois society that had repudiated him. These included his most famous novel "Our Lady of the Flowers" Notre Dame Des Fleurs ostensibly concerned with the trial of an young assassin. Handwritten Autograph Letter Signed 2 page on Terrass Hotel Paris letterhead no date. Important content letter about his most famous novel "Our Lady of the Flowers". Genet writes in his hand "Dear Madame I was very happy to receive your letter in excellent French in fact. But I must regretfully tell you that Freschdun has already translated N D Notre Dame des Fleurs in English and it is he who possesses all the rights to that language and for this book. regarding the movie I have communicated your letter to the owner of the film. he will write to you and will tell you a price. It is with him that you must deal. But I thank you for all your kindness and I hope to see you soon in Paris. In the meantime I shake your hand in friendship. Jean Genet". Genet's letters are generally very scarce however with one such reference to his book "Our Lady of the Flowers" is a great find. unknown books
19816631fdCharlottesville: University Press of Virginia 1981. Octavo white & red cloth hardcover gilt letters xxvii 224 pp. Neat former-owner bookplate; otherwise Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: The diaries and flight log of Edmond C. C. Genet contain the only known daily record of an American’s service with the French Air Service and the Lafayette Escadrille in 1915-17. They give us an intimate and engrossing picture of life at the front during the period before the United States entered the First World War. Edmond Genet was a distinctive young man - an idealistic vanguardist bent upon front-line action. His comrades said “there was a flare of an eighteenth-century gallant about him somehow agreeable mixed with an unabashed Boy Scout’s attitude toward the war.†He was nevertheless part of the most perilous branch of the military and one of the first Americans to be involved in the new and deadly warfare of air combat. In his diary he writes spontaneously about his training his friends his fears and his dogfights. He frequently mentions aces. His absorbing accounts are the most complete primary material on the legendary Lafayette Escadrille to be published in fifty years. University Press of Virginia, (1981). hardcover books
1831717Prospect Hill 1831. 4to. 260 x200 mm. 10 ¼ x 8 inches.  1 page plus small portions of two other pages folio sheet folded approximately 150 words. Written in ink Moderate brown stain toward center obscuring a number of words. Letter laid down into marginal paper supports. This letter discusses Genet's enclose Christmas gift for President Andrew Jackson which the verso of the letter indicates to be a medallion bearing the head of Julius Caesar. Genet begs the recipient thought to be William L. Marcy U.S. Senator and former Secretary of State to give Jackson the gift because: "no one I believe at Washington being better than you acquainted with my humble history in this country as an unchangeable Republican and a zealous friend of General Jackson." Genet wished to deliver the gift to Jackson personally but Jackson's proposed visit to Albany never materialized. The letter is significant for several reasons. It demonstrates Genet's continued involvement with the highest political men in America as well as his commitment to democratic ideals now translated for the Jacksonian age. A Governor of New York Senator and Secretary of State Marcy was influential on American foreign policy and the letter demonstrates Genet's intimacy with him. ".be then My dear Sir my Interpreter near him and add to my letter with your usual eloquence what my rusticated style has not been able to express." The contact between Genet and Jackson came at an important moment of U.S.-French relations a subject of continuous interest to Genet the first minister of the French Republic to the United States. President Jackson had sent William Rives as representative to France to try to negotiate a settlement of the "Beaumarchais claim" a claim by the family for repayment for services rendered by their ancestor to the American Revolution. Rives was also seeking reparations against the French for their role in the commercial crisis that preceded the War of 1812. In 1830 the U.S. had manipulated wine tariffs as a weapon in the negotiations but by 1831 both sides were finally agreeing to settlements which favored American claims. Genet's "small hommage" to Jackson cannot have failed to figure in the President's perception of France at this crucial time in the diplomatic relationship of the two countries. Jackson and Genet did occasionally correspond and two letters dated 1831 are held by the James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library. unknown books
18251528Albany: Packard & Van Benthuysen 1825. About very good. 112pp. plus five engraved plates and folding table. Original printed boards sympathetically rebacked. Light dampstaining and wear to boards. Some foxing and toning internally heavier to initial leaves. A rare and pioneering if evidently fanciful work on air travel by Edmund Charles Genet the infamous ambassador of the French Republic to the United States who from his position in America sought to outfit privateering expeditions against British and Spanish interests in the Caribbean during the 1790s. Following the failure of his schemes and removal from his office at the request of President Washington Genet managed to remain in the United States:<br/><br/>"In February 1794 the new minister Joseph Fauchet arrived with a warrant for Genet's arrest. Had the ex-minister returned to France the Jacobins now in power might have executed him. Granted asylum in the United States he married Cornelia Clinton daughter of New York governor George Clinton 1739-1812 settled near Albany and eventually became a U.S. citizen. He avoided politics and busied himself with publishing unworkable schemes for powered balloons and for using hydraulic power to haul barges over hills" - ANB.<br/><br/>Despite its title which suggests hydraulics the present work largely deals with aviation and is regarded as the first printed suggestion of the theory of a heavier-than-air machine taking flight. The marvelous plates contain detailed diagrams and illustrations of Genet's proposed horse-powered aerostatic airship and the text discusses his designs and his theoretical proofs for the possibility of mechanical flight in exuberant detail. <br/><br/>"This pamphlet by the former Ambassador from France contains a proposal for a large airship and other suggestions for the use of the aerostatic principle. The project attracted much attention. but never materialized" - Aeronautic Americana. "Extremely rare and important the first book printed in the United States on practical aeronautics and on the first patent for an aeronautical invention" - Streeter.<br/> ANB online. Aeronautical Americana 9. Honeyman Sale 1475. Howes G100 "b." Rink 610. Streeter Sale 3974. Packard & Van Benthuysen unknown books
199125206Savage MD: Barnes and Noble 1991. First American edn. 8vo pp. 183. Irish Literary Studies 33. Index. Fine in dj. Irish drama studies chronologically from the 19th century to the present day. Barnes and Noble unknown books
1991WRCLIT78411Savage MD: Barnes & Noble 1991. Gilt boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Irish Literary Studies No. 33. Collectively the essays examine the recurring themes of Irish drama - the problems of language the opposition between two peoples and Ireland's political and social problems. Barnes & Noble hardcover books
1991150687Savage Maryland: Brandon / Barnes & Noble 1991. Hardcover. VG- DJ is slightly faded along spine otherwise clean. Black cloth gilt letters on spine orange & illus. dust jacket 311 pp. A collection of essays and writings by various authors. "Provides an international perspective on the Big House in Irish literature in the writings of amongst others Maria Edgeworth George Moore Joyce Cary Elizabeth Bowen Sean O'Faolain Molly Keane W. B. Yeats Paul Muldoon and John Banville." dj. Brandon / Barnes & Noble hardcover books
1999153464Zurich: Art Focus 1999. Softcover. VG- Slightly aged overall; page margins are tanning; text and illus. are good. White & illus. wraps French flaps 96 pp. color and BW illus. Text is in German and English. Issued in conjunction with a 1999 exhibition of work by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966. Begins with a descriptive narrative. The catalogue includes sculpture paintings and drawings. Art Focus paperback books
1957170871Paris: Maeght 1957. Paperback. VG- light wear to edges and corners minor soiling and scuffing. White and illustrated folio with black lettering containing seperate booklet. 25 pp. BW illustrations. Text in French. Essay by Jean Genet "L'Atelier D'Alberto Giacometti." Maeght paperback books
1990WRCLIT37382Paris: Gallimard 1990. Printed wrappers. First edition trade issue after thirty-five copies on velin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre. One of Edmund White's copies with his unrelated notes on the rear free endpaper. Near fine. Gallimard unknown books
1947604Paris: Cinéastes-Bibliophiles 1947. First Edition First Printing. Actor Charles Boyer's copy of Jean Genet's startling play about three prisoners in the same cell. Octavo 103 pages. Original cream wrappers. The pages are slightly age-toned and the heavy card wrappers are somewhat tanned. But overall this is an excellent copy of an hors-commerce edition that amounted to only 60 copies. The justification page states: "Exemplaire de Monsieur CHARLES BOYER." Rare. <br/><br/>Haute Surveillance Deathwatch was Jean Genet's earliest play and was first performed in Paris in 1949. As drama critic Martin Esslin notes in "The Theatre of the Absurd" the play "is largely a dramatized form of the type of story Genet tells in his lyrical narratives about the lives of criminals and convicts." Cinéastes-Bibliophiles unknown books
1949265887Paris: aux dépens d'un ami Albert Skira 1949. First edition Number 302 of 410 copies SIGNED by Genet sur vélin de Lana. 310 2 pp. 1 vols. 4to 11-1/4 x 7-1/2 inches. Loosely laid in as issued printed white wrappers. Fine in publisher's slipcase very slightly soiled. First edition Number 302 of 410 copies SIGNED by Genet sur vélin de Lana. 310 2 pp. 1 vols. 4to 11-1/4 x 7-1/2 inches. aux dépens d'un ami [Albert Skira] unknown books
1949015745Geneve: Aux Depends d'un Ami 1949. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Quarto 4to. 310 pages of text. Full leather binding; red morocco with four exagerated raised bands on the spine and author's name on a diagonal on the front cover. The spine is lightly to moderately sunned with minor chipping at the top and there is quite a bit of scuffing rubbing and a bit of peeling at the extremities with some re-coloring to match/blend; the binding remains reasonably attractive and fully intact. Protected in custom-fitted archival mylar. The original wrappers are bound-in including the spine. One of 400 copies in this format signed by Genet. There are a few pages with minor browning to the edge but the text is clean and attractive. First and limited edition signed by the author. Aux Depends d'un Ami Hardcover books
1949107110Paris: Paul Morihien 1949. Paperback. 51p. 5.5x7.5 inches text in French very good first trade edition in pictorial wraps with full-length photo of a young Genet in prison garb smaller portrait-photo on the first page of the first of the two stories slightly worn on spine. The Criminal Child Genet's study of juvenile prisons and his ballet 'Adame Miroir. Paul Morihien paperback books
1949600Paris: Paul Morihien 1949. First Edition Trade Issue. Octavo 51 pages paperback. This is the first trade edition; a limited edition of 50 copies also appeared. Wrappers age-toned and nicked at the edges. Overall a nice copy with a striking cover image. <br/><br/>French radio commissioned "L'Enfant Criminel" but refused to broadcast it because of its controversial nature it concerned young criminals and the French justice system. The other work here " 'Adame Miroir" is an opera. Paul Morihien paperback books
1956WRCLIT74652Lyon: L'Arbalète Marc Barbezat 1956. Sq. octavo. Pictorial wrapper over stiff wrapper the former bearing a lithograph by Giacometti printed by Mourlot. About fine largely unopened. First edition ordinary issue. One of 3000 numbered copies on Lana from a total edition of 3265 copies. Perhaps Genet's most widely known play adapted to an English language film in 1963 directed by Joseph Strick based on a script by Ben Maddow and starring Shelley Winters Lee Grant Peter Falk Ruby Dee Leonard Nimoy et al. L'Arbalète Marc Barbezat unknown books
1956300241Paris: Marc Barbezat 1956. Copy # 1338 of a limited edition of 3000 copies printed on Lana paper. With original pictorial wrapper illustrations by Alberto Giacometti. 195 3pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Wrappers. Fine with original glassine. Giacometti. Copy # 1338 of a limited edition of 3000 copies printed on Lana paper. With original pictorial wrapper illustrations by Alberto Giacometti. 195 3pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Marc Barbezat unknown books
1958WRCLIT25745Decines: Barbezat/L'Arbalete 1958. Lithographed wrappers. First edition. One of 3200 numbered copies on Lana. Short snag to upper joint otherwise a very good copy. Barbezat/L'Arbalete unknown books
196023583Paris: L'Arbalete 1960. First edition thus. Wraps. Very good. 8vo. Photographic wraps. Moderate scuffing and wear to wraps with some chipping to edges and corners. Pages toned; light foxing to inside covers and scattered throughout; scuffing to inside back cover. Ownership signature to ffep. Most pages still unopened. Very good. <br/><br/>Genet's play first published in 1958 and reissued with 33 black and white photographs by Ernest Scheidegger of the 1959 Paris production. In French. L'Arbalete paperback books
1958300243Paris: L'Arbalate Marc Barbezat Décines Isère 1958. First Edition. One of 3200 copies #1884. 8vo. Printed cream wrappers. Fine in glassine. First Edition. One of 3200 copies #1884. 8vo. L'Arbalate Marc Barbezat, Décines Isère unknown books
