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190673674Vichy 1906. Fine. Vichy 10 août 1906 11.60 x 18 cm une feuille Moving autograph letter signed by Octave Mirbeau addressed to the playwright and founder of the Revue Blanche Alfred Natanson when he had just lost his father. 18 lines in black ink on a folded sheet envelope included. ""Mon cher Fred Je ne vous ai pas écrit ; mais vous savez bien qu'il n'y a pas dans mon cur la moindre indifférence. Thadée a dû vous dire combien nous avions partagé votre douleur. Thadée a dû vous dire souvent quelle amitié profonde j'ai pour vous. Peut-être ne vous l'ai-je pas exprimée telle que je la sens mais je la sens fortement et je voudrais bien que vous la sentiez aussi un peu. C'est un gros chagrin que de ne plus être aimé de ceux qu'on aime véritablement. Vous allez partir ; et vous faîtes bien de quitter cette maison où durant plus de six mois vous avez assisté à l'horrible agonie de votre pauvre père. Tâchez de travailler pour notre joie à tous. et revenez avec une belle uvre."" ""My dear Fred I have not written to you; but you know well that there is not the slightest indifference in my heart. Thadée must have told you how much we shared your grief. Thadée must have told you often what deep friendship I have for you. Perhaps I have not expressed it to you as I feel it but I feel it strongly and I would very much like you to feel it too a little. It is a great sorrow to no longer be loved by those one truly loves. You are going to leave; and you do well to quit this house where for more than six months you witnessed the horrible agony of your poor father. Try to work for all our joy. and return with a beautiful work."". Mirbeau was particularly close to the group of the Revue Blanche since its launch in Paris in 1891. But it was since the Dreyfus affair that his intimate and lasting friendship with the Natanson brothers Thadée Alexandre and Alfred was strengthened. After aesthetic disagreements about Art Nouveau and the Nabis Mirbeau finally reunited with Thadée around 1900 in a now common inclination for the young Nabis painters of the Revue Blanche Bonnard Vallotton and Vuillard. The Revue Blanche played an essential role in France as confirmed by historian Paul-Henri Bourrelier: ""Most of the most prominent writers painters musicians politicians and intellectuals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries collaborated with it or were associated with it. Created financed and directed by the three Natanson brothers young Polish Jews with the enthusiastic complicity of their classmates from the Condorcet lycée La Revue blanche quickly became a place of debate on all subjects that stirred France. It waged political battles under the impulse of anarchists like Fénéon Mirbeau; socialists such as Blum G. Moch Péguy; Dreyfusards and founders of the League of Human Rights like Reinach and Pressensé."" unknown
190173686s. l. cachet de Seine-et-Marne 1901. Fine. s. l. cachet de Seine-et-Marne 15 Septembre 1901 12.50 x 17.60 cm une feuille Moving autograph letter signed by Octave Mirbeau addressed to the playwright and founder of the Revue Blanche Alfred Natanson. 15 lines in black ink on a folded sheet mourning paper with black border watermarked ""JDL & cie"" envelope attached. ""Thank you for your kind letter. I already knew from Alexandre Natanson how worried you had been about my wife's condition. It is a delicious joy when one's heart is tormented to know that one has friends like you like all of you the good people of the Relai. Please tell your wife that mine was very touched by her friendship. And embrace everyone with effusion. Also tell Olga Alexandre Natanson's wife and Misia Thadée's wife that we love them tenderly and Alexandre that he is a charming friend."" Long postscript on the poor health of his wife the former actress Alice Régnault: ""Yesterday was not a good day and the wound on her arm presented a nasty appearance. Today it is a little better. But it is something to watch very closely. Movements are made a little more easily but she still suffers extremely at night at the slightest play of the muscles"". Mirbeau had been particularly close to the Revue Blanche group since its launch in Paris in 1891. But it was during the Dreyfus affair that his intimate and lasting friendship with the Natanson brothers Thadée Alexandre and Alfred was strengthened. After aesthetic disagreements over Art Nouveau and the Nabis Mirbeau finally reunited with Thadée around 1900 in a now shared inclination for the young Nabis painters of the Revue Blanche Bonnard Vallotton and Vuillard. The ""Relai"" corresponds to a former coaching inn in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne purchased by Thadée Natanson in 1897 which became a destination for all their writer and artist friends. One could encounter the Nabis painters Vuillard Vallotton Bonnard or Roussel as well as Toulouse-Lautrec. The Revue Blanche played an essential role in France as historian Paul-Henri Bourrelier confirms: ""Most of the most prominent writers painters musicians politicians intellectuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries collaborated with it or were associated with it. Created financed and directed by the three Natanson brothers young Polish Jews with the enthusiastic complicity of their fellow students from the Condorcet lycée La Revue blanche quickly became a place of debate on all the subjects that stirred France. It led political battles under the impetus of anarchists like Fénéon Mirbeau; socialists such as Blum G. Moch Péguy; Dreyfusards and founders of the League of Human Rights like Reinach and Pressensé."" unknown
190673701Cormeilles-en-Vexin 1906. Fine. Cormeilles-en-Vexin 22 août 1906 ou 1908 12.60 x 17 cm une feuille Friendly autograph letter signed by Octave Mirbeau addressed to the playwright and founder of the Revue Blanche Alfred Natanson. 12 lines in black ink on a folded sheet letterhead paper ""Cormeilles-en-VexinS.&O."" envelope included. ""Cher ami J'avais bien pensé que cette vieille bonne femme qui tape si fort sur les matelas avait du écorcher mon nom. Mais dans l'incertitude car je pouvais penser aussi que vous étiez pris avec quelqu'un de très sérieux . Ceci mon cher Fred pour vous dire que je suis parti de chez vous triste de ne pas vous avoir vu voilà tout et sans le moindre sentiment mauvais. Vous savez que j'ai pour vous une affection solide et je vous connais assez gentil pour moi pour me permettre de supposer des sottises. ."" ""Dear friend I had indeed thought that this old good woman who beats the mattresses so hard must have mangled my name. But in uncertainty for I could also think that you were busy with someone very serious . This my dear Fred to tell you that I left your house sad not to have seen you that's all and without the slightest bad feeling. You know that I have a solid affection for you and I know you well enough to be kind to me to allow myself to suppose foolish things. ."" With an amusing postscript: ""Ne prêtez pas attention à ce gribouillage. L'auto a je ne sais pas quoi j'y travaille. et n'y fait rien de bon. d'ailleurs. Et mon mécanicien se prend la tête à deux mains noires d'huile grasse ."". ""Don't pay attention to this scribbling. The car has something wrong I don't know what I'm working on it. and it's not doing any good. anyway. And my mechanic is holding his head in his two hands black with greasy oil ."". Mirbeau was particularly close to the Revue Blanche group since its launch in Paris in 1891. But it was from the Dreyfus affair that his intimate and lasting friendship with the Natanson brothers Thadée Alexandre and Alfred was strengthened. After aesthetic disagreements about Art Nouveau and the Nabis Mirbeau finally reunited with Thadée around 1900 in a now common inclination for the young Nabis painters of the Revue Blanche Bonnard Vallotton and Vuillard. The Revue Blanche played an essential role in France as confirmed by historian Paul-Henri Bourrelier: ""Most of the most prominent writers painters musicians politicians intellectuals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries collaborated with it or were associated with it. Created financed and directed by the three Natanson brothers young Polish Jews with the enthusiastic complicity of their classmates from the Condorcet lycée La Revue blanche quickly became a place of debate on all subjects that stirred France. It led political battles under the impulse of anarchists like Fénéon Mirbeau; socialists such as Blum G. Moch Péguy; Dreyfusards and founders of the League of Human Rights like Reinach and Pressensé."" unknown
190373704s. l. Paris 1903. Fine. s. l. Paris 1er Juillet 1903 13.80 x 18.30 cm une feuille Autograph letter signed by Octave Mirbeau addressed presumably to Léon Tonnelle director of the review Le Roman Romanesque. 12 lines in black ink on a folded sheet grey paper with letterhead ""68 avenue du bois de Boulogne"". ""Monsieur je serais très heureux si vous vouliez bien reproduire dans Le Roman Romanesque et aux conditions de la Société des gens de lettres Sébastien Roch publié chez Fasquelle et qui est un livre auquel je tiens particulièrement. Peut-être aussi trouverez-vous dans Les vingt et un jours d'un neurasthénique quelques nouvelles que vous pourriez publier. En outre je vous indique en outre dans Les Contes de la Chaumière Fasquelle une nouvelle : Agronomie qui est presque d'actualité puisque c'est d'elle que j'ai tiré le caractère de Lechat dans Les Affaires sont les affaires. ."" ""Sir I would be very happy if you would kindly reproduce in Le Roman Romanesque and under the conditions of the Société des gens de lettres Sébastien Roch published by Fasquelle and which is a book to which I am particularly attached. Perhaps also you will find in Les vingt et un jours d'un neurasthénique some short stories that you could publish. Furthermore I also indicate to you in Les Contes de la Chaumière Fasquelle a short story: Agronomie which is almost topical since it is from this that I drew the character of Lechat in Les Affaires sont les affaires. ."". Octave Mirbeau published his novel Le Calvaire in issue 8 of the review le Roman Romanesque published in December 1903. The titles mentioned in the letter were ultimately not published. unknown
190173700Nice Villa Ibrahim chemin des Baumettes Nice 1901. Fine. Nice Villa Ibrahim chemin des Baumettes Nice 8 Février 1901 12.50 x 17.60 cm une feuille Friendly autograph letter signed by Octave Mirbeau addressed to the playwright and founder of the Revue Blanche Alfred Natanson some time after his marriage. 12 lines in black ink on a folded sheet mourning paper with black border watermarked ""JDL & cie"" envelope included. ""Je vous envoie à votre femme et à vous tous nos vux affectueux et je voudrais pouvoir chanter en votre honneur un bel épithalame. Le malheur est que je ne suis pas poète. Mais nous somme vos amis et nous vous embrassons de tout notre cur. Nous avions espéré que vous viendriez passer quelques jours à Cannes et nous nous faisions une fête de vous avoir ici. Misia nous dit que vous avez renoncé à ce voyage. Comme c'est ennuyeux ! ."". ""I send to your wife and to you all our affectionate wishes and I would like to be able to sing a beautiful epithalamium in your honor. The misfortune is that I am not a poet. But we are your friends and we embrace you with all our heart. We had hoped that you would come to spend a few days in Cannes and we were looking forward to having you here. Misia tells us that you have given up this trip. How annoying! ."". Mirbeau was particularly close to the Revue Blanche group since its launch in Paris in 1891. But it was from the Dreyfus affair that his intimate and lasting friendship with the Natanson brothers Thadée Alexandre and Alfred was strengthened. After aesthetic disagreements about Art Nouveau and the Nabis Mirbeau finally reunited with Thadée around 1900 in a now common inclination for the young Nabis painters of the Revue Blanche Bonnard Vallotton and Vuillard. The Revue Blanche played an essential role in France as confirmed by historian Paul-Henri Bourrelier: ""Most of the most prominent writers painters musicians politicians intellectuals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries collaborated with it or were associated with it. Created financed and directed by the three Natanson brothers young Polish Jews with the enthusiastic complicity of their classmates from the Condorcet lycée La Revue blanche quickly became a place of debate on all subjects that stirred France. It led political battles under the impulse of anarchists like Fénéon Mirbeau; socialists such as Blum G. Moch Péguy; Dreyfusards and founders of the League of Human Rights like Reinach and Pressensé."" unknown
1961211471961. Mirbeau Ken and Sherry Francoise. Curtain Calls. New York: Elite Books 1961. First edition. Hardcover book in original dust jacket. 245 pages. A 1960s novel with lesbian content about a small town woman moving to New York City with big dreams of Broadway success. Escaping the clutches of an abusive father she soon meets a new cast of characters including a beautiful "voluptuous pantheress" named Nadya who seduces her. Light wear to dust jacket. Book in overall very good condition. A lesbian story in a time when such stories were still taboo. unknown
1997Q-1873982372Dedalus Limited 1997-02-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Dedalus Limited paperback
1921525363Paris: Societe des Dilettantes 1921. Softcover. Very Good/Fair. First edition. Quarto. 100 1 plates pp. Illustrated with heliogravure plates reproducing photographs by Eugene Druet of sculptures by Aristide Maillol. Text in French. Covers lightly tanned and dust soiled fragile spine has been archivally mended along separation at edge of front cover with half-inch chip at crown and one-inch chip at base else a very good copy with the text and illustrations fresh and clean in publisher's unprinted glassine dust jacket worn and chipped and lacks spine. One of 250 numbered copies of a total edition of 300 numbered copies. Societe des Dilettantes unknown
1921039843Paris: Society Des Dillettantes 1921. Limited Edition . Hardcover. VG. Scarce. AUX ARMES DE FRANCE. Limited edition # 117/300. 100 pages. 9 in x 11 in. Sculpture. Text in french. Illustrated with b/w plates. Pages good condition. Previous owner's name top of blank page at front. Turquoise and gilt marbled endpapers exquisite colors good condition. Front and back paste down endpapers bordered with navy blue leather and four banded gilt borders. Dark blue morocco leather covers and spine. Spine has raised leather bands and gilt titles. Covers with embossed graphic designed border. Upper cover also has a stunning embossed gilt and leather illustration at center and 2 gold borders. Beautifilly bound. Edges and corners show light wear. VG <br/> <br/> Society Des Dillettantes hardcover
1921863T33Paris: Societe Des Dilettantes 1921. Paperback. Good Only. 11" by 9". None. A limited edition of this illustrated work on Aristide Maillol and his sculptures in the original French language. French language. Scarce work. Limited to three hundred copies this is number one hundred and ninety-seven. Illustrated with twelve plates and two separate loose images. Collated complete. A detailed work on French sculptor painter and printmaker Aristide Maillol. Written by Octave Mirbeau a French novelist playwright journalist art critic travel writer whose works have been translated into more than thirty languages. In the original paper binding. Externally worn with front board detached and loss of the spine. Light shelf wear and the odd mark to the board. Internally generally firmly bound but detached between pages 48 and 49. Pages are bright and clean with the odd handling mark. Good Only Societe Des Dilettantes paperback
1959L473Elite Books 1959. Hardcover. First Edition First Printing. 5.25 x 8in. 179pp. VERY GOOD in Very Good dust jacket. The book itself shows marginal shelf rubbing along the edges bottom and fore-edge lightly dust spotted else Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows several chips along the edges back panel lightly rubbed otherwise is not price-clipped remaining bright colorful and distinct. As pictured. Elite Books hardcover
1989Q-0856673641Sotheby Parke Bernet Pubns 1989-11-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Sotheby Parke Bernet Pubns hardcover
191440756Paris: Bernheim-Jeune. Very Good. 1914. Hardcover. Oversized half morocco with orange cloth marbled endpages TEG. 75 pp. 59 plates. Limited edition #250 of 600 papier a grain. There is one original frontis etching by Cezanne and 6 original lithographs from Edouard Vuillard Pierre Bonnard Maurice Denis Henri Matisse Roussel and Aristide Maillol. Binding rubbed corners lightly bumped. Very minor occasional foxing. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall . Bernheim-Jeune hardcover
1914190090Paris: Bernheim-Jeune Editeurs d'Art 1914. no 542 of 400 on regular paper. Internally VG and externally VG with age toning and light soiling to covers 2" split beginning at base of front outer hinge. Color lithographed covers 75 pages 59 leaves of plates including one etching by Cezanne and 6 original lithographs by Edouard Vuillard after a self-portrait by Cezanne Bonnard Maurice Denis Matisse K.X. Roussel Aristide Maillol and two reproductions of original drawings by Paul Signac Felix Valloton. Also includes 4 tipped-in color plates of works by Cezanne and 46 full-page plates in bw of works by Cezanne. There are additional small bw images or illustrations tipped-in at several places within the text. 15.25" x 11.5" x 1" letterpress tissue guards for the original artwork. Text is in French. Preface by Octave Mirbeau; sample of Cezanne's handwriting biographical texts and other writings. One of 400 copies printed on regular paper. Scarce and a clean copy internallybut the covers are very soiled and the whole is quite loose from the binding being deteriorated. An excellent candidate for rebinding. A total of 600 copies were printed: 100 on Japon; 100 on Arches and 400 on regular paper. Bernheim-Jeune, Editeurs d'Art unknown
1914190091Paris: Bernheim-Jeune Editeurs d'Art 1914. no 41 of 100 on Japon paper. Fair only Binding and spine are shot covers soiled. COntents clean but a bit age-toned. Etching is a strong impression. Color lithographed covers 75 pages 59 leaves of plates including one etching by Cezanne and 6 original lithographs by Edouard Vuillard after a self-portrait by Cezanne Bonnard Maurice Denis Matisse K.X. Roussel Aristide Maillol and two reproductions of original drawings by Paul Signac Felix Valloton. Also includes 4 tipped-in color plates of works by Cezanne and 46 full-page plates in bw of works by Cezanne. There are additional small bw images or illustrations tipped-in at several places within the text. 15.25" x 11.5" x 1" letterpress tissue guards for the original artwork. Text is in French. Preface by Octave Mirbeau; sample of Cezanne's handwriting biographical texts and other writings. One of 100 copies printed on large Japon paper. Scarce and a nice set of sheets needing rebinding. A total of 600 copies were printed: 100 on Japon; 100 on Arches and 400 on regular paper. Bernheim-Jeune, Editeurs d'Art unknown
1914174206Paris: Bernheim-Jeune Editeurs d'Art 1914. no 12 of 100 on Japon paper. Internally VG and externally VG with age toning and light soiling to covers 2" split beginning at base of front outer hinge. Color lithographed covers 75 pages 59 leaves of plates including one etching by Cezanne and 6 original lithographs by Edouard Vuillard after a self-portrait by Cezanne Bonnard Maurice Denis Matisse K.X. Roussel Aristide Maillol and two reproductions of original drawings by Paul Signac Felix Valloton. Also includes 4 tipped-in color plates of works by Cezanne and 46 full-page plates in bw of works by Cezanne. There are additional small bw images or illustrations tipped-in at several places within the text. 15.25" x 11.5" x 1" letterpress tissue guards for the original artwork. Text is in French. Preface by Octave Mirbeau; sample of Cezanne's handwriting biographical texts and other writings. One of 100 copies printed on large Japon paper. Scarce and a very solid copy. A total of 600 copies were printed: 100 on Japon; 100 on Arches and 400 on regular paper. Bernheim-Jeune, Editeurs d'Art unknown
1914174202Paris: Bernheim-Jeune Editeurs d'Art 1914. no 38 of 100 on Japon paper. Internally VG soiling discoloration to covers but binding is very solid with very minor splitting at top and bottom of front outer hinge. Color lithographed covers 75 pages 59 leaves of plates including one etching by Cezanne and 6 original lithographs by Edouard Vuillard after a self-portrait by Cezanne Bonnard Maurice Denis Matisse K.X. Roussel Aristide Maillol and two reproductions of original drawings by Paul Signac Felix Valloton. Also includes 4 tipped-in color plates of works by Cezanne and 46 full-page plates in bw of works by Cezanne. There are additional small bw images or illustrations tipped-in at several places within the text. 15.25" x 11.5" x 1" letterpress tissue guards for the original artwork. Text is in French. Preface by Octave Mirbeau; sample of Cezanne's handwriting biographical texts and other writings. One of 100 copies printed on large Japon paper. Scarce and a solid copy with the exception of the cover discoloration. A total of 600 copies were printed: 100 on Japon; 100 on Arches and 400 on regular paper. Bernheim-Jeune, Editeurs d'Art unknown
190480561Paris: Galerie Durand-Ruel 1904. Fine. Galerie Durand-Ruel Paris 1904 10 x 17.50 cm relié First edition of the exhibition catalogue presenting 37 works by Claude Monet at the Galerie Durand-Ruel from 9 May to 4 June 1904. During the exhibition most of the paintings were immediately purchased by American collectors. Binding in vellum-effect paper boards names of the catalogue preface writer and the painter inscribed in ink water-effect paper endpapers covers and spine preserved curious ex-libris drawn by H. P. Gassier glued to a pastedown endpaper binding signed Gonon. Preface by Octave Mirbeau. A rare and pleasant copy. Galerie Durand-Ruel hardcover
1905JC14538Paris: A. Romagnol 1905. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Original wrappers bound in 3/4 morocco and marbled paper. 11 compositions in texte gravés à la pointe sèche par Edgar Chahine. Limited to 350 copies overall this is numnber 155 one of the 200 exemplaires sur vélin d'Arches. Spine lightly faded still an excellent copy. <br/><br/> A. Romagnol hardcover
1989301101989. Caen L'Echoppe 1989. Un vol. au format pt in-8 217 x 147 mm de 148 pp. brochÂŽ sous couverture ˆ rabats rempliÂŽs. Edition originale. Un des 30 exemplaires du tirage sur vergÂŽ gris celui-ci justifiÂŽ ˆ la main ''Hors-Commerce'' au colophon. ''Dans le ciel est encore le rÂŽcit de vies avortÂŽes. Celle de Georges ''croupissante larve'' incompris par ses parents minable bourgeois de province dont les aspirations vers l'idÂŽal l'amour de la nature les ÂŽlans de tendresse sont ÂŽtouffÂŽs par la tyrannie paternelle et l'abÂtissement programmÂŽ du collÂge. Celle de Lucien aussi peintre de gÂŽnie assoiffÂŽ d'idÂŽal qui s'engage tÂŽmÂŽrairement dans une ''voie terrible o il n'y a pour aboutissement que le dÂŽsespoir'' les tÂŽnÂbres de la folie et le suicide expiatoire''. Dix ans d'Echoppe n¡57. TrÂs belle condition. b42961 unknown
192236922Paris: Flammarion 1922. Fine. Flammarion Paris 1922 12 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 50 numbered copies on Marais paper the only deluxe copies with 25 on Holland paper. About E. Delacroix C. Monet P. Gauguin J.F. Rafaelli C. Pissarro A. Rodin. Some light foxing mainly affecting the endpapers. Flammarion unknown
1923803A54Paris: Henri Jonquieres et Cie. 1923. First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 6" . Pierre Falke. A limited edition of this novel by Octave Mirbeau first thus with the colourful illustrations by Pierre Falke. One of eleven hundred copies printed on Rives paper this copy number one hundred and ninety four. The last novel by French novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau it proposes a fictional autobiography of the author's adventures with his dog Dingo providing a view of country life in Ponteilles en Barcis. It was completed by the author's friend Leon Werth when the author's ill health prevented him to continue. First edition to feature illustrations in colour by Pierre Falke. In the original French. Rebound in half morocco over marbled boards with the original wraps bound in with the volume. Rebound in half morocco binding over marbled boards with gilt to the top edge and new marbled endpapers. The original wraps bound in with the volume. Externally very smart with only minor shelf wear and a minor rubbing to the leather. Paul Alleman bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Illustrated in colour by Pierre Falke. Very Good Indeed Henri Jonquieres et Cie. hardcover
190539779Valencia: F. Sempere y Compañía Editores ca. 1905.- 216 p. 4 h.; 8º 187 x 127 cm; Rústica Ed. Las cubiertas algo fatigadas por lo demás en muy buen estado. LITERATURA Y ESTUDIOS LITERARIOS EXTRANJEROS DE LOS SIGLOS XVI-XXI Libro en español F. Sempere y Compañía paperback
192821646Paris: Jacques Rodrigues-Henriques 1928. Fine. Jacques Rodrigues-Henriques Paris 1928 12.50 x 16 cm agrafé First edition of this exhibition booklet. Preface by Octave Mirbeau front cover illustrated with a bust photographic portrait of F. Vallotton bearing the manuscript signature of the gallery owner J. Rodrigues-Henriques. Iconography. Minor stains of no consequence to the front cover. Jacques Rodrigues-Henriques unknown
190465500Paris: Charpentier 1904. Fine. Charpentier Paris 1904 12 x 19 cm relié First edition on current paper. Binding in half red percaline smooth back adorned with a golden floret double golden net tail black titan title piece marbled paper plates preserved covers. Stamp printed from the archives of the French Comedy on the title page. Precious autograph signed by Octave Mirbeau: ""A Remy de Gourmont his friend Octave Mirbeau."" Charpentier unknown
