83 résultats
20029939Octon France: Verdigris Press 2002. One of 6 copies from a total issue of 50 8 with an original copper plate and additional mezzotint 6 with an additional mezzotint this copy 36 regular copies all on Hahnemuhle paper this special copy with an additional mezzotint not in the regular edition each signed and numbered by the artist Judith Rothchild. Page size: 8 x 10 inches; 16pp. Bound: reversible accordion-fold leporello covers of hand-marbled Venetian papers in red black and gold over boards; as issued in black slipcase with Venetian paper accents title in letterpress in black on marbled paper insert white label on cover boards a bit ink spotted else fine. Text in original French.<br/>This book which is completely reversible has on one side a text on Venice by George Sand and on the other by Emile Zola each with three Rothchild mezzotints of doorways bridges and canals. Sand's delightful description of Venice in springtime forms a sharp contrast to Zola's grim portrayal of a decadent city in decay. Like the illustrations themselves the texts provide a provocative study of contrasts. An extraordinarily beautiful book redolent with the eternal allure of Venice. Verdigris Press unknown books
190040348Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son 1900. Hardcover. Complete 20-volume set. Translation by George Burnham Ives. 8vo. Half brown calf with compartments and gilt letterng and decorations and tan decorated paper over boards. Various paginations. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece with captioned tissue guards full-page illustrations with captioned tissue guards decorative tan endpapers. Very good overall. Bit of occasional edgewear only. A tight quite handsome custom bound full set of the "Edition de Nohant" with colophon noting the limitation to 1000 numbered sets this #83 and this set printed for Charles N. Mann likely the Philadelphia antiquarian and book collector1840-1912. Though not so marked this set hails from the library of Adlai E. Stevenson III Illinois senator and before him the library of his father Adlai E. Stevenson II 1900-65 Illinois governor and twice presidential candidate -- whose wife Ellen Borden 1907-72 likely acquired it she being the family member who read and collected fine literature and poetry. Uncommon set nice condition unusual provenance. George Barrie & Son hardcover books
1848293976Paris 1848. unbound. very good. Important A.L.S. as Sand had recently began writing for the soon-to-be-banned Le Vrai Republique with integral address page personal stationary with blind stamped monogrammed initials: "G.S." 8vo. 1 page Paris March 16th 1848 to radical journalist and fellow supporter of the French Revolution Theophile Thore in French with translation explaining that she has not yet met with Louis and Charles Blanc and apologizes for not having responded to his letters because all of her time has been consumed writing material for the Republique. In closing she signs herself "a vous de tout Coeur / George Sand". Evenly toned and set into a white matte gatefold whereby both the letter and the integral address page are both visible then placed into a simple gold-stained wooden frame to 13" x 11.5". Louis Blanc 1811-1882 was a staunch French Socialist and reformer who only three months after this letter was written was exiled to England where he would remain until 1870. Also two weeks prior to this letter being sent George Sand had agreed to provide the Republique with no less than 13 original articles for publication. An exceptional letter written during the heart of the French Revolution of 1848.<br/><br/> French novelist and socialist whose works were immensely popular in Europe during her lifetime and whose fame eclipsed both that of Victor Hugo and Honore de Balzac in the 1840's and 1850's.<br/><br/> unknown books
1862003597Paris: A. Levy Fils 1862. Quarter Morocco pebbled cloth boards. Very Good. Sand Maurice. 2 volumes 4to. 28 by 19 cm. viii 356 2 384 pp. 50 hand-colored plates featuring the stock characters of the improvisational Theatre Italienne such as Harlequino Arlechino Pulcinella Colombine Pagliaccio Pierrot Pantalon L'Apothicaire Le Notaire Scaramuccia Pasquariello etc. Nowadays these characters are most familiar to opera-goers thanks to the comical works of Donizetti Mascagni Busoni Mozart etc. Most of these characters grew out of the roaming theatrical troupes that originated in Italy of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The costume and basic personality of the character remained stable from one performance to the next but within those parameters the characters in a troupe usually following the broad contours of a story line would improvise bringing in buffonery perhaps relating to the events of the day the specific venue where they were appearing or whatever else might spring into their mind on the spur of the moment. In the eighteenth century the free form went into decline replaced by more scripted plays but its influence is very evident in the plays of Goldoni Moliere who worked well before the form vanished and besides the opera buffa early twentieth century Vaudeville ballet and more current comedy. Also the costume from the Theatre Italienne has never failed to excite enthusiasm and thus it is often celebrated in the decorative arts as perhaps most magnificently in porcelain beginning in the eighteenth century with Meissen Nymphenburg and many other makes. Today the style of Harlequin or Arlecchino continue to be emulated in clothes design with some regularity. This two volume celebration of the costume and characters of this theater was written by Maurice Sand who was the son of the novelist George Sand who wrote the preface. Maurice Sand 1823 -1889 was an accomplished illustrator and writer in his own right. Occasional soiling sometimes toning around perimeter outside of tissue guards which have survived remarkably well. Rubbing along joints and moderate wear of boards. Very handsome marbled painting of edges. <br/><br/> A. Levy Fils hardcover books
1862006327Paris: A. Lévy Fils 1862. Half Morocco. Very Good. Sand Maurice. All the plates are here rendered in three states -- full hand-colored black and white and sepia and white! 2 volumes 4to. 28 by 20 cm. viii 356 2 384 pp. 50 hand-colored plates and 100 additional in the two other formats featuring the stock characters of the improvisational Theatre Italienne such as Harlequino Arlechino Pulcinella Colombine Pagliaccio Pierrot Pantalon L'Apothicaire Le Notaire Scaramuccia Pasquariello etc. Nowadays these characters are most familiar to opera-goers thanks to the comical works of Donizetti Mascagni Busoni Mozart etc. Most of these characters grew out of the roaming theatrical troupes that originated in Italy of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The costume and basic personality of the character remained stable from one performance to the next but within those parameters the characters in a troupe usually following the broad contours of a story line would improvise bringing in buffonery perhaps relating to the events of the day the specific venue where they were appearing or whatever else might spring into their mind on the spur of the moment. In the eighteenth century the free form went into decline replaced by more scripted plays but its influence is very evident in the plays of Goldoni Moliere who worked well before the form vanished and besides the opera buffa early twentieth century Vaudeville ballet and more current comedy. Also the costume from the Theatre Italienne has never failed to excite enthusiasm and thus it is often celebrated in the decorative arts as perhaps most magnificently in porcelain beginning in the eighteenth century with Meissen Nymphenburg and many other makes. Today the style of Harlequin or Arlecchino continue to be emulated in clothes design with some regularity. This two volume celebration of the costume and characters of this theater was written by Maurice Sand who was the son of the novelist George Sand who wrote the preface. Maurice Sand 1823 -1889 was an accomplished illustrator and writer in his own right. Provenance: this copy comes from the heirs of John James Audobon. The initials "V.A." are stamped on both front boards; these initials probably refer to Victor Gifford Audubon Jr. 1847-1915 the artist's grandson. Condition: some minor scuffs and abrasions on the leather spine shelfwear on the edges. A few some light soil spots here and there but overall quite clean and bright. <br /><br /> A. Lévy Fils books
00303Paris: Desessart 1847. Piracy Banditry and Disorder"<br/>Bewitching Beauty Inflames Desires<br/>Uncut in the Original Printed Wrappers<br/><br/>SAND George. Le Piccinino. Paris: Desessart Éditeur 1847.<br/><br/>First edition. Five octavo volumes 9 1/16 x 5 7/16 inches; 231 x 139 mm. 4 315 1 blank 1 "Table" 3 blank final blank leaf pasted to rear pastedown; 4 301 1 blank 1 "Table" 1 blank; 4 307 1 "Table"; 308 1 "Table" 3 blank final blank leaf pasted to rear pastedown; 4 advertisements 4 318 1 "Table 1 blank pp.<br/><br/>Uncut in the original yellow printed wrappers. Advertisements on rear wrappers. Minimal chipping to wrappers spines slightly darkened some light foxing and edge browning as usual. A wonderful set. Each volume housed in a marbled board slipcase and the five volumes housed together in two quarter blue morocco clamshell cases.<br/><br/>Le Piccinino is the tale of a bewitching Sicilian princess whose beauty inflames the desires of everyone she encounters whether artist noble commoner or bandit.<br/><br/>"The Piccinino is a novel of fantasy" writes George Sand in her preamble "which has no claim to paint a precise historical epoch nor to accurately describe a country. It is a study of color dreamed rather than felt and where only a few features have been found just as by chance. The scene of this novel could be placed everywhere else under the sky of the south of Europe .". A story full of fascinating family secrets from one end to the other.<br/><br/>Astonishingly only one the present copy in 1989 of this novel featuring "piracy banditry and disorder" has come to auction within the last fifty years.<br/><br/>"Nothing could be more charming than her tales of mystery intrigue and adventure.Le Piccinino et al - these things have all the spontaneous inventiveness of the romances of Alexander Dumas his open-air quality his pleasure in a story for a story's sake." Henry James Literary Criticism: French Writers p. 730.<br/><br/>On April 16 1847 Chopin wrote to his family: "her new romance entitled thus far Piccinino which means: little. The action takes place on Sicily. Many lovely things; I do not doubt that it will be more to Ludwika's liking than Sand's Lucretia which also aroused less enthusiasm among others here.A great deal of naturalness of poetry I remember what a pleasure it was to listen to her reading it" Fryderyk Chopin—Calendary.<br/><br/>George Sand pen name of Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin Baronne Dudevant 1804-1876 "was as famous for her ‘unfeminine' independence her habit of wearing men's clothes and her love affairs with such prominent artistic figures as Alfred de Musset and Frédéric Chopin as for her writings. In 1831 she left her husband Baron Dudevant. Her work is usually divided into three distinct periods the first of which intensely romantic corresponds to her affair with Musset. The novels of this period plead the right of free love for both men and women and include such works as Indiana 1832 Lélia 1833 and Valentine 1832. During the next decade George Sand became interested in various humanitarian reform movements and published such works as Consuelo 1842 and Le Meunier d'Angibault 1845. Her last group of novels sentimental studies of nature and of rustic manners includes La Mare au diable 1846 Le Piccinino 1847 La Petite Fadette 1848 and François le Champi 1850" Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia.<br/><br/>Vicaire VII col. 231. Not in Carteret. Paris: Desessart, 1847 unknown books
18432030Paris: Imprimerie de Schneider et Langrand 1843. First edition. Contemporary 19th century quarter calf binding with green boards; gentle wear to edges. Internally an excellent copy with original wraps bound in; occasional light foxing and small paper loss to margins of last two leaves neither affecting text. Octavo collates complete with 31 pages. An exceptionally rare copy of Sand's first work on social justice of which only 500 were printed. This copy is the only one known to have come onto the market with none in the modern auction records and the only other held at La Bibliotheque Nationale de France.<br/><br/>Having dedicated the first decade of her career toward writing novels about women's internal and social struggles George Sand made her first move into activism with Fanchette. Shocked by the story of a young girl with mental illness who had been refused refuge in a convent and was soon after discovered pregnant and arrested for begging Sand opted to expose the events in a set of letters printed in the Revue Independente. Following a wave of public outcry "Sand decided to have the letters printed in brochure form with the plan that half the copies would be distributed free to the workers of La Chatre the others sold for the benefit of Fanchette. Five hundred copies of this brochure of thirty-one pages were printed and circulated. The Fanchette case therefore revealing as it did an appalling lack of sympathy for the poor and misfortunate convinced George Sand that an effort should be made to awaken the citizens of La Chatre to their duties as members of a community" Bowes. This publication marked a new phase of Sand's writing career which more directly emphasized social justice particularly for vulnerable women. A rare and important work. [Imprimerie de Schneider et Langrand] unknown books
6953The autograph manuscript of one of Sand's earliest novellas. It contains nearly 300 ink deletions and corrections and vividly reveals the author's writing process. Cora appeared in print for the first time on 9 February 1833 in the fifth volume of the collection of tales Le Salmigondis. Sand 1804-76 wrote it shortly after her split with the novelist Jules Sandeau 1811-83. Sand's works from 1832 to 1834 are particularly revealing concerning her turbulent personal life and her total adoption of the bohemian and androgynous persona of "George Sand" for which she applied and received a permission de travestissement. Her early novellas served as insightful experiments while she developed the Romantic genre for which she is most famous. Composed in the first person this feminist novella caricatures provincial customs of the time especially with regards to the often tragic fate of women as a result of their romantic relationships and strict social conventions. Sand's preoccupation with sympathetically depicting female figures pervades the story. As in many of her works the main characters are lower class. The protagonist Georges a young official in an unnamed small town has returned from l'île Bourbon now known as Réunion and at a ball falls in love with Cora the daughter of a grocer. Their relationship never progresses past the "immaterial and magical" as she marries a trainee pharmacist and Georges falls seriously ill. Following a humiliating encounter with Cora and her father Georges flees the town. At the very end of the story he returns years later to find Cora surrounded by three children with "a long nose thinned lips eyes a bit red gaunt cheeks and several teeth missing." Bound-in before the manuscript is a presentation inscription from Lina Sand Calamatta the wife of Maurice Dudevant Sand's son to Monsieur Ferrand dated 26 June 1890. We also find two manuscript letters from Sand Calamatta laid-in one of them dated 27 January 1895. She was the daughter of the French Neoclassical painter Joséphine Calamatta 1817-93 and the Italian painter and engraver Luigi Calamatta 1802-69. In fine condition. It is quite rare to find complete autograph manuscripts of Sand's writings on the market. unknown books
