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191475220Paris 1914. Fine. Paris 1914 13.60 x 21.20 cm en feuillets Autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend the man of letters and lawyer Adrien Peytel two pages written in black ink in hurried handwriting on a double sheet with L'Eclair newspaper letterhead. A central fold inherent to the folding of the letter for mailing. Fine letter from Colette testimony to the confusion that seized France at the dawn of the Great War: ""Nothing is working. I am stuck here for a piece they are asking me to write."" The writer worries: ""I have no news from Sidi Henry de Jouvenel. I am creating a whole head of worries for myself. I don't know where he is he wrote to me that he was leaving with the 29th for the Somme. Ah! la la la la la la."" ""Colette a entendu sonner le tocsin en Bretagne où elle passait un séjour ensoleillé avec le baron Henry de Jouvenel et leur fille dans sa maison de Rozven. La guerre la surprend en plein bonheur à quarante et un ans. . Son mari appelé dès le 2 août devant rejoindre le 29e régiment d'infanterie à Verdun elle a aussitôt envoyé sa fille à peine âgée d'un an avec sa nurse au château de Castel Novel en Corrèze - chez sa belle-mère. Et elle est rentrée à Paris."" ""Colette heard the tocsin ringing in Brittany where she was spending a sunny stay with Baron Henry de Jouvenel and their daughter in her house at Rozven. The war surprised her in the midst of happiness at forty-one years old. . Her husband called up from August 2nd having to join the 29th infantry regiment at Verdun she immediately sent her daughter barely a year old with her nurse to the château de Castel Novel in Corrèze - to her mother-in-law's. And she returned to Paris."" Dominique Bona Colette et les siennes unknown
29856Paris Mercure de France 29 février 1904. 1 vol. 110 x 135 mm de 119 p. 2 et 1 f. Maroquin bleu canard dos à nerfs titre doré filet doré sur les coupes tête dorée contreplats à encadrement couvertures et dos conservés étui bordé reliure signée de L. Malcorps. . Édition originale. Exemplaire sur vergé teinté non justifié. Il est enrichi d’une lettre autographe signée au journaliste Georges Maurevert pseudonyme de Georges Leménager ami de Léon Bloy et Jean Lorrain. Colette malade d’une « sale bronchite » est « depuis quelques jours seulement en état de suivre quotidiennement les répétitions de ma tournée qui part mardi nous passerons à Nice vers le 15 je crois. J’arrive au point essentiel de ma lettre : votre article ne m’est pas parvenu et il faut que vous l’envoyez tout de suite… ». . Colette en ce début d'année 1910 a entamé une tournée sur trente villes où elle se produit dans deux pièces de Georges Courteline La Cruche ou J'en ai plein le dos de Margot et La Peur des coups. C'est Courteline lui-même qui dirige les répétitions : « Ce grand écrivain se double vous le savez d'un acteur inimitable dont les moindres indications les moindres intonations sont pour nous des traits de lumière. Avec lui on travaille avec joie avec fierté sans effort. Je vous assure qu'en sortant de ses mains j'aurai du talent ! » « Colette Willy en tournée » Comoedia 3 avril 1910. Elle se produira effectivement à Nice le 15 avril remerciant son destinataire d'être « toujours pour moi le bienveillant et délicat confrère que vous fûtes toujours. Je vous fais envoyer tout de suite les Dialogues de bêtes. Si vous pouviez voir mes cinq chiennes !. Je vous en apporterai deux à Nice elles suivent la tournée . ». C'est le premier ouvrage signé Colette Willy : un texte théâtral apologue qui raconte l'histoire d'un chat et d'un chien Toby-Chien et Kiki-la-Doucette en neuf scènes. Trois dialogues seront ajoutés en 1905 pour Sept dialogues de bêtes. Bel exemplaire. Paris, Mercure de France, (29 février) 1904. 1 vol. (110 x 135 mm) de 119 p., 2 et [1] f. Maroquin bleu canard, dos à nerfs, t unknown
29638Paris Fayard 1919. 1 vol. 115 x 185 mm de 25 p. et 1 f. Maroquin bleu dos à nerfs titre doré tranches dorées sur témoins doublures de maroquin havane à encadrement gardes de soie à motifs doubles gardes de papier marbré couverture et dos conservés étui bordé reliure signée de Marius Michel. . Édition originale. Un des 75 exemplaires sur pur fil n° 72. . Livré en cinq parutions hebdomadaires malmené par Colette elle-même Mitsou fera tout de même l'objet d'une relecture attentive de la part de son auteur avant sa parution en livre l'augmentant de plusieurs pages décisives qui firent leur petit effet : Proust après avoir reçu son exemplaire lui écrivit ainsi qu'il « avait un peu pleuré ce soir pour la première fois depuis longtemps et pourtant depuis quelque temps je suis accablé de chagrins de souffrance et d'ennuis. Mais si j'ai pleuré ce n'est pas de tout cela c'est en lisant la lettre de Mitsou. Les deux lettres finales c'est le chef-d'oeuvre du livre. ». Proust qui s'y connaissait en lettre et sur le petit effet qu'elles ne manquaient jamais de produire aura donc apprécié. Force est d'acquiescer. De la bibliothèque de Descamps-Scrive ex-libris. Paris, Fayard, 1919. 1 vol. (115 x 185 mm) de 25 p. et [1] f. Maroquin bleu, dos à nerfs, titre doré, tranches dorées sur té unknown
191387748Paris: Librairie des lettres 1913. Fine. Librairie des lettres Paris 1913 12 x 19 cm relié First edition one of 130 copies on Holland paper. Half-hazelnut morocco binding with corners spine with four raised bands set with black fillets moiré-effect paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns original wrappers and spine preserved top edge gilt on deckled edges. Handsome copy beautifully bound. Librairie des lettres hardcover
194002064328 - 29 January 1940. Manuscript. Paperclip impression at corners old horizontal crease. Near Fine. A six-page TYPED MANUSCRIPT in French SIGNED "Colette" at the conclusion on 8-1/4" x 10-3/4" sheets of paper. One of several lectures Colette gave on Radio Mondial. This one concerns her views of mondanité or worldliness. <br/><br/> unknown
192615195Small 4to. Bound uncut with orig. wrappers in a fine green hmorocco 5 raised bands spine with 6 compartments each richly gilt. Top edge gilt. Back slightly faded. No 225 of 350 copies "sur vergé de Rives" a total of 420. With 33 fine original engravings by Laboureur. <br/><br/><em>The first volume of "Grande Collection". </em> hardcover
23746Les Éditions de Montfort Paris. 1987. Folio 6 parts housed in custom-made box slip-cases xxii71; xxiv73-168; x169-231; viii234-315; x316-437; viii438-5562pp. number 59 of 200 de-luxe sets signed and numbered by the author total edition limited to 950 sets illustrated throughout many tipped-in 144 coloured loose as issued within orig. card wrappers a different uncoloured design after Creuzevalt on each upper cover. Beautiful work in honour of Henri Creuzevalt produced by his daughter Colette; it not only reproduces most of Creuzevault's bindings but also his preliminary drawings and studies. The text has been contributed by various authors and an index provides full information regarding each illustration. From the library of Bernard H. Breslauer. Les Éditions de Montfort, Paris. 1987 unknown
61629Paris Flammarion 1942. 4° Fronti Titelillustr. 169 S. 2 Bl. 23 Orig.-Radierungen Broschur mit losen Bogen in Kart.-Mappe in Schmuckschuber Schuber u. Mappe etwas gebräunt Transp.-OU m. kleinem Einriss. Buchrücken gebräunt innen sauber Nr. 116 von 200 Exempl. auf vélin à la cuve des Papeteries des Rives. - Colette eigentlich Sidonie-Gabrielle Claudine Colette; 1873-1954 französische Schriftstellerin Varietékünstlerin und Journalistin. Sie bekam als erste Frau in Frankreich ein Staatsbegräbnis. - André Jacquemin 1904-1992 peintre et graveur français. Membre de l’Académie des beaux-arts il a été l’élève de Waltner et de Jean-Paul Laurens à l’École des beaux-arts de Paris. 010 Paris, Flammarion, 1942 unknown
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
192076019Rennes: Menzil 1920. Fine. Menzil Rennes circa 1921 14.50 x 21.80 cm Rare and unpublished childhood portrait of Colette Destouches only daughter of Louis-Ferdinand Céline born in 1920 on albumen paper mounted on cardboard from the Menzil studio. Manuscript caption ""Colette Destouches"" inscribed on recto and verso with the mention ""1920"". The portrait was taken by the Menzil house 6 rue Beaumont Rennes the city where Céline met and spent several years in the company of Édith Follet his second wife and mother of Colette. This photograph of Colette Destouches who is only a few months old is to our knowledge unpublished. Céline retained throughout his life an affection for his daughter whom he saw regularly in Rennes Geneva and Paris and who was ""surely more possessive in his way with her than he had been with any of his wives his mistresses. He had dreamed for her a glorious future of a medical career as if to strengthen their complicity"" Frédéric Vitoux La Vie de Céline coll. Folio 2005 p. 636. Menzil unknown
192375257Marseille 1923. Fine. Marseille s. d. novembre 1923 13.70 x 18.70 cm une page sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend the man of letters and lawyer Adrien Peytel one page written in black ink on a double sheet with letterhead from the Grand Hôtel de Noailles et Métropole in Marseille. A central fold inherent to the mailing of the letter. Handsome letter addressed from Marseille while Colette was conducting a lecture tour: ""I'm finishing my tour. I'll be in Paris on Sunday and we'll take care of this matter - which I still haven't understood anything about."" ""In November 1923 she dealt with . a subject she knew by heart Le Théâtre vu des deux côtés de la rampe. Her very young lover Bertrand de Jouvenel joined her in Marseille at the Grand Hôtel de Noailles et Métropole. Scandal: Bertrand de Jouvenel was none other than the son of her second husband the diplomat Henry de Jouvenel; guaranteed uproar around the fifty-year-old writer while her husband's son had just celebrated his twentieth birthday. Colette had two years earlier initiated the future economist and political scientist into love in this scandalous liaison which provided the theme and situations for Blé en herbe published in that same year 1923."" Rémi Duchêne L'Embarcadère des lettres unknown
193385668Paris: Flammarion 1933. Fine. Flammarion Paris 1933 11.50 x 18.50 cm relié First edition with no mention of deluxe paper copies. Half red marbled sheep binding spine faded with four raised bands decorated with a gilt floral motif light rubbing to the bands marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns sprinkled edges front cover preserved modest contemporary binding. Rare signed and inscribed copy by the author Colette Andris to Jean Blavet. Novelist music-hall performer and actress a forgotten and short-lived muse of the Roaring Twenties music-hall Colette Andris the pseudonym of Pauline Toutey managed to write three novels between 1929 and 1935 with a lot of autobiographical elements. She would die in the prime of life the following year. Born into an academic family she quickly gave up the administrative and teaching careers that awaited her in order to become a nude dancer and like her heroine Miss Nocturne to perform in the Parisian music halls. Flammarion hardcover
191822770Paris: Georges Crès & Cie 1918. Fine. Georges Crès & Cie Paris 1918 13.50 x 17 cm broché First edition one of 60 numbered copies on Hollande the only large paper copies with 6 Chine. Endpapers slightly shaded otherwise a rare and good copy. Georges Crès & Cie unknown
2017Adhya-9781138015180T&F/ROUTLEDGE 2017. Hardcover. New. T&F/ROUTLEDGE hardcover
2017Adhya-9781138015180T&F/ROUTLEDGE 2017. Hardcover. New. T&F/ROUTLEDGE hardcover
191313119Paris: Librairie des Lettres 1913. First Edition. Printed wrappers. Very Good. Small 8vo. Pp. 307. Stiff printed wraps red titles in gray decorative frame. French text. Copyright 1913 stated no printing date. List of available works ends with Prrou Poucette et quelques autres 1913. Advertisement for the "Journal de Colette" appearing in Le Matin from October 1913 laid in. Moderate spine lean top edge dust soiled toning to leaf margins. Signed by Colette on the title page. Continuation of the character Renée Néré based on Colette's marriage to Henry Gauthier-Villars Willy and experiences in the Music-Hall. Colette had married Henry de Jouvenel editor of Le Matin in 1912. A well-preserved first edition signed by the author: scarce in either case. Librairie des Lettres unknown
197138740Paris: Les Francs Bibliophiles 1971. A PERFECT COPY OF A GORGEOUS LIVRE D'ARTISTE WITH ONE OF THE RARE SEPARATE SUITES OF THE LITHOGRAPHS. Illustrated with 13 original lithographs by Brianchon: 6 double-page color lithographs 1 full-page color lithograph and 6 single-page lithographs in black. Edition limited to 180 numbered copies printed exclusively for the members of the bibliophile society "Les Francs Bibliophiles" on fine Arches wove paper this copy printed for Christian de Brossard. This copy exceptionally has a separate suite of the 13 lithographs on extremely fine Auvergne handmade wove paper. The double-page lithographs in the suite obviously have never been folded unlike the ones in the book. Only 40 of these suites were printed 16 on Japanese paper 24 on Auvergne paper. Folio book and large folio suite. Book is loose in original wraps cloth chemise and slipcase. Suite in original folder. Both are FINE AND BRIGHT WITH NO DEFECTS. <br/><br/> Les Francs Bibliophiles paperback
1940mon0000163534Librairie Artheme Fayard 1940. PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol. 7-3/8" x 4-3/4" 49th edition inscribed on the half-title "Pour ma chere Alice de qui je suis si loin - et si pres! son amie bien amie Colette" "For my dear Alice from whom I am so far - and so close! her friend good friend Colette". Bound in the publisher's original printed wrappers with the original glassine foot of spine slightly worn otherwise a VERY GOOD copy.rnThe recipient was Colette's old friend Alice Benard-Fleury of Toulon with whom she corresponded during the War years. Librairie Artheme Fayard unknown
1939mon0000163533Ferenczi 1939. PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol. 7-1/8" x 4-5/8" inscribed on the half-title "Pour Alice Benard-Fleury en souvenir de sa vieille amie Colette" "For Alice Benard-Fleury in remembrance of her old friend Colette". Bound in 1/4 light green cloth backed marbled boards gilt lettered leather label overall VERY GOOD.rnThe recipient was Colette's old friend Alice Benard-Fleury of Toulon with whom she corresponded during the War years. Ferenczi hardcover
1928425761Paris: Librairie Hachette 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine. Edition Ne Varietur avec 16 gravures originales sur bois Renefer; the first trade edition of the book with these illustrations. Bound in contemporary green quarter calf and marbled paper covered boards with front wrap bound in. Modest rubbing and wear on the boards else near fine; internally fine. Inscribed by the author to her old friend Alice Bénard-Fleury of Toulon with whom she corresponded during World War I: "Pour Alice Bénard-Fleury avec un sentiment amical qui presse vite da la bouteille. Colette." "For Alice Bénard-Fleury with friendly feelings that quickly flows from the bottle". Librairie Hachette hardcover
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
61322684John Wiley & Sons . Hardback. New. John Wiley & Sons hardcover
192075260Marseille 1920. Fine. Marseille s. d. circa 1920 19.80 x 25.20 cm une page sur un feuillet Autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend the man of letters and lawyer Adrien Peytel nine lines written in black ink. Some folding marks inherent to the mailing of the letter. ""And then damn it enough already. Here La Cigale is calling me for tomorrow evening and I haven't stolen it since I accepted and even asked to do the café-concert criticism on the same level as the other."" unknown
195786783s. l. 1957. Fine. s. l. s. d. 1953 18 x 13 cm une photographie Original black and white silver print photographic portrait of Colette in conversation with one of her young admirers Bernard Petiot. Notes in blue ballpoint pen one crossed out followed by ""Bernard Petiot 1957"". This photograph was taken on April 22 1953 during the award ceremony of the Grand Officier de la Légion d'Honneur. On the reverse a humorous autograph inscription by the writer: ""For Bernard Petiot in memory of a ancient writer Colette to whom young visitors are sympathetic"". unknown
19572346DEUTSCHE BUCHGEMEINSCHAFT 1957. 1. hardcover. DEUTSCHE BUCHGEMEINSCHAFT hardcover
