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1979161304Arts et Metiers Graphiques 1979. Hardcover. VG- DJ is tanned along edges and spine significant chipping to top edge of dustjacket; book and interior are clean and nice. Picture is NOT OF ACTUAL BOOK for illustrative purposes only. Black cloth gilt letters on spine cream dust jacket 511 pp. many BW illus.; held in matching black slipcase. Text is in French. Presents catalogues of prints and drawings as rendered by French Cubist Jacques Villon 1875-1963. The annotated and illustrated catalogue presents nearly 700 examples of his work. A vital reference. Arts et Metiers Graphiques hardcover books
198322377New York: Limited Editions Club 1983. Hardcover. Full gold stamped blue Chinese silk cloth. Fine in fine light gray slipcase. Gilot Francoise. 154 pages. 28 1/2 x 24 cm. Translated by Enid McLeod Introduced by Robert Phelps. Illustrated with three original silk screens by Francoise Gilot and drawings in the text. Laid-in is an additional silk screen a smaller versiion of the slilkscreen bordering p.60. printed on the same stock as the original. Translated by Enid McLeod. Introduction by Robert Phelps. Limited edition copy 1267 of 2000 signed by Francoise Gilot printed by Daniel Keleher at the Wild Carrot Press. LEC Monthly Letter laid-in. NEWMAN & WICHE 534. As new copy. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1960128802London: Merton Park Studios 1960. Final Shooting Script for the 1962 UK film. The first film out of 47 of the "Edgar Wallace Mysteries" a British film series that showed as 1-hour second features on British film screens between 1960 and 1965 then later on television. Based on Wallace's 1918 novel. <br/><br/>John Lexman is a murder-mystery writer happily married but with financial troubles leading him to borrow money from less-reputable figures. He is framed for murder of the lenders perhaps by the estranged lover of his new wife. <br/><br/>"The Edgar Wallace Mysteries" constituted a run of 47 films all produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated between 1960 and 1965 as second features for distribution in British cinema houses. They were generally based on adaptations of original late Victorian/early twentieth century stories by Edgar Wallace updated to reflect contemporary settings. The features were rebroadcast later the same year on "The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theater" which ran in both the US and UK. The opening was a slowly revolving bust of Edgar Wallace to the accompaniment of the "Man of Mystery Theme" written by Michael Carr later recorded by The Shadows and a No. 1 hit record in the UK. <br/><br/>Cream titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 1960 noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Mackie and for writer Wallace. 70 leaves with last page of text numbered 69. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. <br/><br/>Grant UK. Merton Park Studios unknown books
1948126362Paris: Georges Guillot 1948. Limited. paperback. very good. Lydis Mariette. Illustrated with 15 original pointes seches engravings in color by Mariette Lydis. 93 pages with text in French. Small folio loose signatures within stiff printed wrappers cardboard sleeve & slipcase is soiled bumped and cracked. Paris: Georges Guillot 1948. Internally fine.<br/><br/> Limited Edition one of 100 numbered copies in a total edition of 300 copies. A charming book with Lydis's fine delicate illustrations providing a lovely match for Colette's text.<br/><br/> Georges Guillot unknown books
1953148411New York: International News Photos 1953. Vintage photograph of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini on the set of the 1954 film. Mimeo snipe dated May 17 1953 "International News Photos" and "Return to: Chronicle Files" stamps on verso. <br/><br/>The International News Photos snipe addresses the movie as "New Wine." While we could not verify that working title Rossellini and co-screenwriter Vitaliano Brancati had drawn on a script by Antonio Pietrangeli entitled "New Vine" for "Journey to Italy" and was likely an error by the news agency.<br/><br/>Loosely based on the 1934 novel "Duo" by Colette. <br/><br/>An English couple Alex George Sanders and Katherine Joyce Bergman eight years married travel to Italy to sell a villa inherited from Alex's uncle. Along the drive and during their stay at the villa they come to the realization they really don't know one another and have little desire to spend time together.<br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Naples and Rome Italy. <br/><br/>7 x 9 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/><br/><br/>Godard Histoires du Cinema. BFI 540. Scorcese My Voyage to Italy. International News Photos unknown books
192007704Paris: Artheme Fayard & Cie 1920. FIRST EDITION. Paperback. Trade issue. Some slight browning to pages. Otherwise a near fine copy with a square spine and wrappers in fresh condition in original glassine jacket. <br/><br/> Artheme Fayard & Cie paperback books
193209214New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1932. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Hardcover. Cloth slightly faded at spine. Otherwise a near fine copy in dust jacket with some very minor wear at spine ends and some creasing to upper portion of front panel. This rose-colored dust jacket is usually quite faded at spine. This copy however is unfaded. Sequel to Colette's popular novel Cheri. <br/><br/> G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
1932LD5773Les Bibliophiles Comtois 1932. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Loose gatherings in printed folder with glassine dust jacket; in chemise and slipcase; 4to; illustrated throughout. Number 7 from a limited edition of 105 copies distributed for members of the society this one for M. Julien Rozendaal. Total limitation of 140 copies. Chemise lightly rubbed along the edges; slipcase quite worn along the edges. But the book is very near fine with just some very light rubbing at spine tips and corners. <br/><br/> Les Bibliophiles Comtois hardcover books
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
4154Beautiful gray toned bust portrait showing Colette in three-quarter facial profile laid onto textured tan art paper and that laid onto beige mount of the photographer "G.L. Manuel Freres." She signed the photograph "Colette." Art paper and mount have deckled edges slight bends at corners soiling on verso of mat otherwise a clean board. The photograph itself measures 6.5 x 8.75 inches and including photographer's mount the measurement is 10.5 x 14 inches. The fine photograph is accompanied by an ALS that begins without greeting "I trust you will guess how much I detest writing this letter. You are free to tell the truth to those around you or to announce that I am ill." She sends her regrets and signs "Colette. " Full translation: "I trust you will guess how much I detest writing this letter. You are free to tell the truth to those around you or to announce that I am ill. Please believe dear Madam that I deeply dislike such a desertion and that I beg you to find herewith together with my excuses and regrets my very best regards. Colette. 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
