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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
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
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
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
