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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
15351George Sand pseudonym of Amandine Aurore Dupin Baronne Dudevant was a prolific writer and early feminist. 2 page Autograph Letter Signed in French dated 4 June 1863. No place. To close friend and politician Emile de Girardin.<br/><br/>Both Sand and the recipient of her letter Emile de Girardin were politically progressive siding with the working class and poor and advocating for women's rights. Sand was an ardent supporter of the 1848 Revolution in which both Sand and Girardin held positions as members of government. However she was appalled by the violence of the Paris Commune and openly criticized it. The famed French feminist author sends Girardin her article and praises his role in "the liberty and progress" that has transpired following the Parisian elections. Reflecting on the "laws of repression" she notes that the people who resist progress are "generally unbecoming and loose imbeciles." A fascinating letter documenting Sand's honest views on human progress and the hurdles that need to be overcome in attaining it. Letter is in very good condition with blue ink clear and dark save for some of Sand's original smudges typical of her hasty pen. Light streak across left of front page. A political and inspiring letter from the early feminist author. unknown books
15620Sand George. Pseudonym of Amandine Aurore Dupin Baronne Dudevant was a prolific writer and early feminist. Handwritten Autograph Letter Signed December 29 1858 while she was working on her book Elle et Lui. In French. 1 page on a larger folded sheet measuring approximately 8"x5" inches. <br/><br/>Sand was an internationally famous novelist and essayist whose work promoted the strength of women. She was also known for her many love affairs including with the composer Chopin. In this Autograph Letter Signed in 1858 while working on her famous book "She and He" Sand writes in French in part: ".I don't have time to see you tonight and I await the letter of Montigny who will tell me when he will come. But I want to assure you about your manuscript which I have reread and of which I am very happy." Signed "G. Sand" . She adds a seven line post script "inquiring news about the little Tittine" then she adds "the little peri-Gois is saved. I kiss Eugenie and all of your family. Happy New Year to all." Reputed as an intelligent writer and an apt editor Sand was highly involved in the literary community and this letter is a fine example of her collaboration in exchanging manuscripts with her contemporaries. Elle et Lui would become Sand's vehicle for recounting her tumultuous affair with Alfred de Musset. Letter is on her Personal embossed stationary. Original fold lines but otherwise in very good condition with dark and legible text and signature "G Sand.". unknown books
1833046866Paris: Urbain Canel Adolphe Guyot 1833. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. Scarce collection of 26 works of fiction by French women - contemporary quarter leather over marbled boards. Scattered foxing paper of mixed quality and some pages browned. Includes an early Sand "Une Vielle Histoire". 407pp; 429pp; 413pp; 491pp; 446pp; 403pp Size: Octavo 8vo. 6-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 046866. Urbain Canel, Adolphe Guyot hardcover books
1900RSANMAS00JNGeorge Barrie & Son 1900. Very Good. Sand George. Masterpieces of George Sand. 20 volume set. Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son 1900. Edition de Nohant #254 of 1000 sets. 8vo. Green cloth with deckled edges and top edge gilt. Book condition: Very good. Lovely set with only faint shelf wear at extremities. Paper label is lacking on volume 1 and labels on several other volumes are chipped at edges with small pieces lacking but otherwise readable. The set has had little use evidenced by the fact that most pages are untrimmed and hence unopened. George Barrie & Son hardcover books
186521680Washington: GPO 1865. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. Pp. 3-108. In a 19th or early 20th century binding of victorian ribbed blue cloth gilt title on the upper board. Extracted from the "Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War at the Second Session Thirty-Eighth Congress". First page partially separated for bottom inch else this is a fine copy in a fine binding.<br/><p>. (GPO) hardcover books
32049The first book 121 pages commences with the 1884 organizational meeting and ends with the meeting of October 1 1909. The second book 151 pp begins in 1924 and continues through 1950. Each volume contains meeting minutes which detail the events in the meetings guest speakers. Each volume contains a list of members. Not in Blair which talks about Methodist Missionary organization. The society was open to women of all denominations who were willing to pay the $.02 a week up to $.10 a month depending on their means. The purpose of the Society was to create an interest on the part of area women in missionary work. There was a special emphasis on "woman's work for woman. unknown books
1890006382London: John C. Nimmo 1890. Limited Ediiton. Full Morocco. Very Good. Extra-illustrated with 20 additional engravings besides the 11 hand-colored plates by Commedia dell'Arte costume by Maurice Sand and seven Lalauze etchings. Two volumes. No. 604 of 780 copies. 8vo. 23.5 by 17.5 cm. xii 4 371 2 379 pp. Contemporary full green morocco binding with fairly elaborate gilt ruling pips floral devices. Condition: binding heavily rubbed along joints and spine extremities. A few small abrasions on boards. Light age toning to leaves which are otherwise clean. <br /><br /> John C. Nimmo books
184722615Boston: Ticknor 1847. First American edn. 8vo pp. 330 341 339. Three volumes bound in two with three title-pages and three half titles. Bound in calf and marbled boards little scuffed. A very good tight copy. The story of a strong-willed independent gypsy cantrice. Ticknor unknown books
1869294Paris: Michel Levy Freres 1869. Nouvelle Edition. Leather bound. Very good . Beautifully bound partial set in green half leather over black and green marbled paper boards. Gilt title on spine. Four raised bands. Rubbing to edges and bumped corners of paper boards on some volumes. Mauprat showing rubbing to spine. Blue marbled end papers. Previous owner's inscription and writing on some blank leaves. Binding is sturdy square and strong. Foxing and toning to pages. Each volume about 300 pp. Sextodecimo 4 1/2 x 7 inches tall. Text in French. Levy Sand's official publisher released this New Edition in the author's lifetime. Michel Levy Freres hardcover books
1915229493Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Comapny 1915. First American edition. Colored plates. 2 vols. 8vo. Blue decorated cloth t.e.g. Upper hinge of Vol. I starting else Near Fine. Ex-library numbers on spine a few internal stamps. First American edition. Colored plates. 2 vols. 8vo. J.B. Lippincott Comapny unknown books
18453902Philadelphia: E. Ferrett & Co 1845. First American Edition of this translation the first book by Sand published in the United States translated by Elizabeth A. Ashurst and published in London in 1844. 16mo; drab paper over boards original brown cloth spine label with title on spine despite some wear to edges and some foxing this is a very good copy of this bookPublished in France in 1838 as Spiridion and described as a "mystical hotchpotch" the novel falls into the period when Sand was fascinated by various "isms" including Christian mysticism. . NUC lists only one location: LC. Scarce. E. Ferrett & Co unknown books
187054701Boston: Roberts Brothers 1870. First American edn first edition in English. 8vo pp. 250 23 24 iii Bound in little rubbed drab green cloth little dust worn couple of signtures starting to pull but a good copy. This edition includes two appendices: the first is "The Novels of George Sand" 23pp and the second is: "George Sand" 24pp by Justin McCarthy. "The facts of GS's independent life and the declamatory assertion of her early novels . provide a significant model for English women writers and exerted a widespread influence on the traditions of the English novel"Blain pp. 943-4. Roberts Brothers unknown books
196629535New York: New York Workshop in Nonviolence 1966. First edition. Record LP. Very Good. 33 1/3 LP recording in sleeve. Recorded and edited by Ann Charters. Portents Records. A recording done for the benefit of the New York Workshop for Nonviolence ion April 7 1966. Record and sleeve all in very good playable condition. New York Workshop in Nonviolence unknown books
1871008609James R. Osgood and Company 1871. Book. Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in Decorative Cloth.First Edition Excellent Copy. James R. Osgood and Company Hardcover books
1840238533New York: DeWitt & Davenport 1840. hardcover. good. Translated by Francis G. Shaw. 3 vols. 8vo original calf backed marbled boards spines unlettered; worn especially at the corners. New York: DeWitt & Davenport. Fourth American Edition.<br/><br/> The front blank flyleaf of volume II is missing the bottom third; there is brown spotting throughout but in all a solid set of an early translation.<br/><br/> DeWitt & Davenport unknown books
188447228New York: R. Worthington 1884. Reprint. Octavo 19cm; dark red decorative cloth stamped in black and gilt; 240pp. Boards somewhat smudged scuffed and rubbed but stamped design still crisp and clean; leading corners slightly bumped. Gift inscription on ffep dated 1886; light foxing throughout interior; binding slightly shaken but stiff; all edges marbled top edge faded/dust-soiled. Overall Very Good Rare.<br/><br/>A reissue of a volume originally published in 1871 by J.S. Redfield this book compiles four short love stories including The Devil's Pool by George Sand and The Story of Leonard and Margaret by Robert Southey. Although the word "Illustrated" is stamped into the cover there are no illustrations within; it is unclear whether this book was ever issued with illustrations. This reprint also omits a small introduction present in the first edition stating the publisher's intention to create a "Lover's Library" series which presumably never materialized. R. Worthington unknown books
18705010Boston: Roberts Brothers 1870 8vo. vi 250 23 24 3 ads pp. Original brown cloth pencil inscription dated 1871 on free endpaper binding somewhat worn spine askew; very good. § First edition in English. This edition includes two appendices; the first 23 pp. by Margaret Sweat titled “The Novels of George Sand†and the second a 24 pp. article by Justin McCarthy “George Sand.†These are amongst the earliest critical studies in English of Sand’s writings. Roberts Brothers hardcover books
