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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
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
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
198615735Mesa: Fairborn Press 1986. First edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Illustrated with photos and figures. Mesa AZ: Fairborn Press 1986. First edition. ISBN 0911351086. A record of the proceedings of the seventh annual Fairborn IAPPP Symposium consisting of 22 technical papers concerning the design use and special applications of photoelectric telescopes APTs in astronomical research. A very good copy in the original printed wraps. <br/><br/> Fairborn Press paperback books
1989016197Mesa AZ: Fairborn Press 1989. Book. Near fine condition. Paperback. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. vi vi 235 pages of text followe by two pages of index. Original paperback binding with minimal shelfwear. Illustrated with photographs. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. Fairborn Press Paperback 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
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
197832790San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press 1978. Paperback. 325p. introduction photos somewhat soiled and worn first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps faint creasing to top and bottom corners of front cover. Gay Sunshine Press paperback books
197769060San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press 1977. Paperback. 325p. personal inscription signed by Leyland very good later printing in pictorial wraps. Gay Sunshine Press paperback books
1978247882San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press 1978. Hardcover. 325p. introduction photos lightly-foxed edges otherwise a very good first edition limited to 26 lettered and signed copies out of 500 hardcover copies in blue cloth boards and unclipped dj. This is letter R signed at colophon and also personally inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by the editor. Gay Sunshine Press hardcover books
1993WRCLIT32520New York: Knopf 1993. Cloth and boards. First American edition. Fine in dust jacket. Knopf hardcover books
199331144New York: Alfred Knopf 1993. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Quarter cloth over boards. Stated first American edition of this comprehensive 728 pp biography of Genet. Illustrated with some black and white photographs. A very good copy in price-intact dustwrapper. Wrapper has a short tear near the spine crown. This copy has been briefly INSCRIBED by White on the title page. The book includes a chronology by Albert Dichy. Alfred Knopf hardcover books
199327562New York: Knopf 1993. Hardcover. xlii 728p. introduction chronology reference editions notes works by Genet index illustrated with 20 pages of b&w photos very good first US edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Knopf hardcover 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
1970170961New York City: Committee to Defend the Panthers 1970. Single 8.5x11 inch handbill printed front and back formerly folded horizontally into thirds .5 inch tear along left side upper fold slight yellowing at edges. Originally appeared in Ramparts June 1970. Genet's appeal to defend Bobby Seale against murder charges in New Haven CT reprinted by Committee as fundraiser for the case. Committee to Defend the Panthers 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
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
196356919Paris: Marc Barbezat 1963. First edition. 92 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Paris: Marc Barbezat unknown books
