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1929279161Paris 1929. unbound. good. 1 page 10.25 x 8 inches 9 Rue de Beaujolais Louvre Paris January 30 1929 in French untranslated to an unidentified correspondent and friend "Cher Monsieur et ami." In this letter Colette states that she is unwell afflicted with grippe and bronchitis. She is sending a paper short story and if it is accepted as she hopes she would like to correct it further when she receives the proof "because there are always mistakes." In closing she sends her regards to Madame de Henseler and mentions that she does not have the recipient's personal address. Three binder holes at the left edge natural folds and light foxing. Good condition.<br/><br/> French novelist<br/><br/> unknown books
193120127Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1931. First American Edition. Hardcover. price-clipped minimal shelfwear light dust-soiling/spotting to top edge; jacket browned/discolored/faded at spine otherwise just lightly worn and quite attractive Novel about "the darling of the Paris music halls" miserable in her marriage to an unfaithful fop of a husband and her passionate love for "a big simple straightforward landholder from the provinces." Ah it's always the big simple straightforward ones isn't it Especially if they're landholders. The novel based on Colette's own experiences was originally published as "La Vagabonde" in France in 1910 and was adapted into a 1918 silent film "La Vagabonda." Critic James Hopkin celebrated the book's centenary in a rhapsodic 2011 article in The Guardian praising its "energy and inventiveness" and calling it "a rousing novel of love and guile of vulnerability and vituperative wit of poetry and self-empowerment a slim volume scored with little wisdoms sumptuous descriptions and the 'heroic vanity' of an unforgettable cast." Jacketed copies of the original American editions of Colette's novels are all quite scarce. . Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. hardcover books
1924226364New York Henry Holt and Company 1924. 1924. First English edition. Small 8vo. Frontispiece. Translated by Princess Alexandre Gagarine. Dust jacket designed by Jacques Nam unclipped. 154 pages. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Necker 2226. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1924. hardcover books
1950LD17667Paris: Paul Dupont 1950. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Color lithographs by Christian Berard throughout. Original bright pictorial wrappers contents loose as issued; publisher's chemise and slipcase. Total edition limited of 535 copies this being #90 of 200 on "velin de Lana". Book is fine. Slipase with wrinking to one side but its done its job protecting the book for 70 years. <br/><br/> Paul Dupont hardcover books
1920226207Paris: Artheme Fayard 1920. First. hardcover. fine. 8vo 3/4 green morocco spine faded to brown; original yellow printed wrappers including spine bound in. Paris: Artheme Fayard 1920. First Edition.<br/><br/> One of 550 numbered copies on papier velin.Lafuma. This is no. 124.<br/><br/> Artheme Fayard unknown books
197294691Paris: Pierre de Tartas 1972-73. Deluxe illustrated edition of Colette's four Claudine books with the original lithographic frontispiece portrait by Jean Cocteau. Quartos 4 volumes bound in full gilt-decorated pebbled morocco with silk endleaves top edges gilt lithographic colored frontispiece portrait by Jean Cocteau illustrated with 24 original colored lithographs per volume by Dauchot Sala Lelong and others. In near fine condition. Each volume housed in the original marbled slipcase. Just before Colette's death in 1954 Katherine Anne Porter asserted in the New York Times that she was indefinitely ".the greatest living French writer of fiction; and that she was while Gide and Proust still lived." Written in diary form and published between 1900 and 1904 the Claudine series describes the growth to maturity of a young girl Claudine now thought to be largely autobiographical. Pierre de Tartas unknown books
1932LD17668Lyon: Les XXX de Lyon 1932. Limited Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 120 copies only printed of this lavish edition. Folio. Original wrappers; an excellent crisp copy. In publisher's slipcase stain at the bottom. This copy is inscribed on the limitation page by Colette to Docteur Germain Blechmann: "Pour le docteur et la Madame Germain Blechmann qui sont les amie de la mer meridionale de la musique de la chaleur des enfants ils sont aussi les amis de Colette". Lithographs by-Luc Albert Moreau. This is copy 65 of the copies numbered 61 to 120. Fine orignal pencil drawing by Moreau and another lithograph numbered 39/60 both pieces signed are laid in at the front. <br/><br/> Les XXX de Lyon paperback books
