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199386778Taschen. New. 1993. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- Corresponds to ASIN: B002U4PZNG. TWO 2 VOLUME SET. 780 pages; 577 illustrations. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Leben Und Werk Complete Works -- with a bonus offer . Taschen hardcover
200291298Taschen. New. 2002. Hardcover. 3822816299 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in English. 780 pages. Description: "Soutine's rough and ready Expressionism has played a key role in 20th-century art. This volume re-assesses the artist's position in art history. It reprints a previous best-seller in one volume." Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee Taschen hardcover
199386774Taschen. New. 1993. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- Corresponds to ASIN: B0018QYCMM. TWO 2 VOLUME SET. 780 pages; 577 illustrations. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Leben Und Werk Complete Works -- with a bonus offer . Taschen hardcover
199386775Taschen. New. 1993. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- Corresponds to ASIN: B001I2T5LE. TWO 2 VOLUME SET. 780 pages; 577 illustrations. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Leben Und Werk Complete Works -- with a bonus offer . Taschen hardcover
199386777Taschen. New. 1993. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- Corresponds to ASIN: B000PWDFA0. TWO 2 VOLUME SET. 780 pages; 577 illustrations. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Leben Und Werk Complete Works -- with a bonus offer . Taschen hardcover
199386776Taschen. New. 1993. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- Corresponds to ASIN: B000PCIH44. TWO 2 VOLUME SET. 780 pages; 577 illustrations. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Leben Und Werk Complete Works -- with a bonus offer . Taschen hardcover
19048480Paris, Rome, Victor Lecoffre, Typographie Polyglotte de la S. C. de la Propagande, 1904. In-8 (245 x 160 mm), xvi-485-(3) pp., 1 tableau dépliant. Reliure de l'époque plein maroquin, emblème de la Société de Saint-Jean pour le développement de lart chrétien frappé sur le premier plat, filets intérieurs et sur les coupes, toutes tranches dorées, reliure signée Canape R(elieur) D(oreur) et datée de 1916, nerfs, coupes et mors frottés, un nom sur le f. de garde.Selon un feuillet manuscrit relié en début d'ouvrage, ce livre a été offert à l'abbé Paul Buffet, à l'occasion de son ordination sacerdotale, par les membres de la Société de Saint-Jean ; ce billet, daté de 1916, est signé par le président de la société M. Henry Cochin. Quinze artistes, membres ou proches de la Société de Saint-Jean, ont contribué à ce cadeau avec des aquarelles originales : frontispice de A. MOREAU-NERET daté du 1 juillet 1916, Joseph AUBERT (1849-1924) (p.144), P. VERDIER (p.154), Étienne AZAMBRE (1859-1933), (p.200), Georges-Henri BALLOT (1866-1942) (p.234), Valentine REYRE (1889-1943), (p.302), Maurice DENIS (1870-1943), (p.312), L... (?) (p.344), Georges CLAUDE (1854-1921) (p.382), Amédée BUFFET (1869-1933) (p.410), Adrien DUTHOIT (1867-1917) (p.418), Jules Henri Jean GRUYER (1871-1929) (p.428), Paul Hippolyte FLANDRIN (1856-1921) (p.436), Jeanne SIMON (1869-1949) (p.446) et Frédéric MONTENARD (1849-1926), (p.458). Excepté le frontispice (200x120 mm), la dimension des aquarelles est proche de 165x105 à 110 mm. Rare témoignage de l'activité de la Société de Saint-Jean et panorama des artistes peintres religieux du début du XXe siècle.
LRB_035RAVEL (Maurice). BROUILLON DE LETTRE AUTOGRAPHE À SON FRÈRE. 1 page. Signé, sous cadre, au dos d’une facture pour des vêtements. 21,5 × 13,5 cm. [Mont-Pèlerin, ca. Mars 1934.] Exceptionnel et bouleversant document, l’un des tout derniers rédigés de sa main par Ravel, vers mars 1934. On y voit l’un des plus grands créateurs artistiques du vingtième siècle réduit à l’impuissance devant la nécessité d’exprimer dans sa langue maternelle le quotidien le plus simple. Il s’agit d’un brouillon de lettre adressée à son frère Édouard, au crayon ; la signature est à l’encre. À la date de rédaction de ce document, les effets de la maladie cérébrale de Ravel sont manifestes et se lisent sur ce brouillon même. Ainsi du mot « petit », qui figure en haut à gauche, probablement à titre d’essai. Il se retrouve au tout début de la lettre, dans l’adresse de Ravel à son frère. À la dernière ligne, toutefois, Ravel commet une faute d’orthographe sur ce même terme appartenant au vocabulaire le plus élémentaire de sa langue maternelle. D’autres éléments — surcharges, ratures... — dans ce document témoignent de la situation dramatique dans laquelle a définitivement sombré Ravel. Publication : Maurice Ravel, Correspondance, écrits et entretiens. Tome II. Édition établie, présentée et annotée par Manuel Cornejo, Gallimard, 2025, page 1977, numéro 2680. Maurice Ravel. Lettres, écrits, entretiens, édition d’ Arbie Orenstein, Harmoniques, Flammarion, 1989, page 281, numéro 334.
1963191129New York: Harper & Row 1963. In the first issue dust jacket First edition first printing first issue. Criticized at the time of publication for its dark elements Where the Wild Things Are was soon acclaimed as a triumph of children's storytelling and book design. There were multiple issues of the first edition but this copy is the earliest. Oblong quarto. Colour illustrations throughout by Maurice Sendak. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper boards front cover lettered in black. With dust jacket. Christmas 1963 gift inscription in blue ink to front free endpaper verso. Covers a little bowed couple of bumps and minor wear to edges; jacket toned light rubbing to spine a few damp stains and small chips price-clipped: a very good copy in like jacket. Hanrahan A58; Grolier Children's 100 97. hardcover
192585866Paris: Grasset 1925. Fine. Grasset Paris 1925 11.50 x 18.50 cm relié sous étui First edition one of 13 copies on imperial Japan paper the head of the print run after 7 on China. Full caramel morocco spine with five raised bands highlighted with black fillets gilt date at foot turn-ins and endpapers of full meadow-green morocco upper cover preserved in two states lower cover blank in one state and spine in two states preserved gilt top edge all edges gilt slipcase trimmed in caramel morocco with marbled paper sides and brown felt lining an elegant binding signed Devauchelle. A very fine copy perfectly bound of this work awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1925. Grasset hardcover
198839640Paris Taz 1988 In-8 oblong mont sur onglets, reliure en chne fum dont chaque plat est constitu de deux plaques superposes qui se dplient selon une charnire verticale en box brun sombre; les plaques du premier plat sont ajoures et mosaques en bois de violette selon un dcor recto-verso qui voque le parcours d'une rivire; lger rappel du dcor sur les plaque du second plat; gardes de daim vert bouteille, non rogn, couverture illustre. Bote tui (Sandra Aftalion, 2021).Edition originale, illustre de 16 eaux-fortes originales de Francis Mockel, dont 7 sur double page et une en couverture. Tirage limit 95 exemplaires numrots sur vlin de Rives, signs par l'artiste. Un des 20 premiers exemplaires comportant un important dessin original sign de Mockel, ainsi qu'une suite part des 7 gravures sur double page, chaque preuve signe au crayon par l'artiste. Le dessin et la suite ont t regroups sous une chemise spare qui se loge dans la bote-tui.
193135413Paris Le Livre Contemporai 1931 In-4, maroquin havane orn sur les plats en passant par le dos de deux sries de filets horizontaux pousss or ou au palladium, l'une au deux tiers de la hauteur, l'autre en pied avec une large frise la grecque galement pousse or ou au palladium; dos sans nerfs portant le nom de l'auteur et le titre de l'ouvrage pousss or; doublures bord bord de box vert, gardes de soie moire beige, tranches dores sur tmoins, couverture illustre d'un motif estamp froid. Etui (Semet et Plumelle).50 gravures sur bois en couleurs dont 13 pleine page par Jules Chadel, tires la main suivant les mthodes japonaises par Y. Urushibara, avec le concours de Germaine de Coster et Savinienne Tourette. Tirage unique limit 121 exemplaires numrots sur japon. Elgante reliure dcore de Semet et Plumelle.
196477448Scripta et Picta | Paris 1964 | 28.50 x 38 cm | en feuilles sous chemise-étui
194716078Paris: Imprimerie National 1947. First edition of Allais' groundbreaking work. Octavo 2 volumes original wrappers as issued. Inscribed by Maurice Allais on the title page of volume one. From the library of fellow Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow with his name in each volume. In near fine condition with light shelfwear minor mending to the first few pages of volume one. A nice association linking these two Nobel Prize winning-economists and giants of twentieth century economics. In Economie & Interet Maurice Allais introduced the first overlapping generations model later popularized by Paul Samuelson in 1958 introduced the golden rule of optimal growth later popularized by Edmund Phelps or described the transaction demand for money rule later found in William Baumol's work. In 1988 Maurice Allais became the first French citizen to receive the Nobel Prize in economics. He won it for his contribution to the understanding of market behavior and the efficient use of resources. Allais also showed that his insights could be applied to help set efficient prices for state-owned monopolies of which France had many. Allais's work paralleled and sometimes preceded similar work done by English-speaking economists Sir John Hicks and Paul Samuelson. He also proved a result in growth theory in 1947 that had been credited to Edmund Phelps. Allais did not get credit as early as his English counterparts because his work was in French. "Had Allais' earliest writings been in English" commented Paul Samuelson "a generation of economic theory would have taken a different course. Imprimerie National unknown books
194716078Paris: Imprimerie National 1947. First edition of Allais' groundbreaking work. Octavo 2 volumes original wrappers as issued. Inscribed by Maurice Allais on the title page of volume one. From the library of fellow Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow with his name in each volume. In near fine condition with light shelfwear minor mending to the first few pages of volume one. A nice association linking these two Nobel Prize winning-economists and giants of twentieth century economics. In Économie & Intérêt Maurice Allais introduced the first overlapping generations model later popularized by Paul Samuelson in 1958 introduced the golden rule of optimal growth later popularized by Edmund Phelps or described the transaction demand for money rule later found in William Baumol's work. In 1988 Maurice Allais became the first French citizen to receive the Nobel Prize in economics. He won it for his contribution to the understanding of market behavior and the efficient use of resources. Allais also showed that his insights could be applied to help set efficient prices for state-owned monopolies of which France had many. Allais’s work paralleled and sometimes preceded similar work done by English-speaking economists Sir John Hicks and Paul Samuelson. He also proved a result in growth theory in 1947 that had been credited to Edmund Phelps. Allais did not get credit as early as his English counterparts because his work was in French. “Had Allais’ earliest writings been in English†commented Paul Samuelson “a generation of economic theory would have taken a different course.†Imprimerie National unknown
05039Paris: Librairie Charles Tallandier 1898. A Fine Pictorial Inlaid Binding by Franz Ostermann<br/>Specially Bound for Sir Henry Harben<br/><br/>BINDING. OSTERMANN Franz binder aka FRANZ. PRÉVOST L'Abbé. LELOIR Maurice illustrator. Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du Chevalier des Grieux. Préface de Guy de Maupassant. Illustrations de Maurice Leloir. Paris: Librairie Charles Tallandier 1898. <br/><br/>Large octavo 9 13/16 x 6 3/8 inches; 250 x 162 mm. xxiv 203 1 blank 2 list of illustrations & contents 1 printer's statement 1 printer's emblem pp. Twelve color plates two black & white plates each leaf of text with a black & white vignette. <br/><br/>Bound ca. 1905 by Franz Ostermann stamp signed in gilt "Franz" on front turn-in. Full green crushed levant morocco.<br/>Front cover with an elaborate inlaid design taken from the second chapter heading vignette on p. 113 in multi-colored morocco's depicting Manon and Des Grieux. "Folding her in my arms I rained a hundred fond kisses on her lips and besought her to forgive my angry words confessing that I was a brutal wretch and utterly unworthy of the happiness of being loved by such an adorable woman as herself". Also with the gilt arms and Latin motto "Summis Viribus" Greatest Strength of Sir Henry Harben. Rear cover with a smaller but equally elaborate inlaid design in multi colored morocco's taken from the vignette on p. 85 depicting Des Grieux and and his his loyal friend Tiberge "I thanked M. de Tiberge for rendering me so important a service; and returning his confidence unreservedly.". Spine with four raised bands with in the center an inlaid design of Des Grieux surrounded by an anchor and a fine gilt design lettered in gilt in compartments. Double gilt-ruled board edges elaborate gilt floral turn-ins colored silk liners with gold thread floral design front and rear free endpapers also in colored silk with gold thread floral design additional green marbled endpapers all edges gilt. With the original pictorial printed front wrapper and plain rear wrapper bound in. Absolutely fine.<br/>Housed in the original quarter green morocco over green marbled boards same as endpapers felt-lined chemise spine with four raised bands lettered in gilt in compartments slightly faded in turn housed in the original matching green morocco edged green marbled board slipcase. <br/><br/>Franz Ostermann 184 - 1938. Bookbinder of Alsatian origin who always signed his bindings with his first name. He trained in Strasbourg before moving to Paris and opening his workshop in 1872 at 80 boulevard Malesherbes. He moved his workshop to 28 rue Ampère in 1902. Thirty-one of his bindings were sold at auction at Drouot Richelieu in Paris in 2008 Piasa Livres Anciens et Modernes December 2nd 2008.<br/> <br/>Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles 1697-1763 usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost was a French author and novelist.<br/><br/>The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut is a novel by Antoine François Prévost. Published in 1731 it is the seventh and final volume of Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité Memoirs and Adventures of a Man of Quality. The story set in France and Louisiana in the early eighteenth century follows the hero the Chevalier des Grieux and his lover Manon Lescaut. Controversial in its time the work was banned in France upon publication. Despite this it became very popular and pirated editions were widely distributed. In a subsequent 1753 edition the Abbé Prévost toned down some scandalous details and injected more moralizing disclaimers.<br/><br/>Seventeen-year-old Des Grieux studying philosophy at Amiens comes from a noble and landed family but forfeits his hereditary wealth and incurs the disappointment of his father by running away with Manon on her way to a convent. In Paris the young lovers enjoy a blissful cohabitation while Des Grieux struggles to satisfy Manon's taste for luxury. He acquires money by borrowing from his unwaveringly loyal friend Tiberge and by cheating gamblers. On several occasions Des Grieux's wealth evaporates by theft in a house fire etc. prompting Manon to leave him for a richer man because she cannot stand the thought of living in penury.<br/><br/>The two lovers finally end up in New Orleans to which Manon has been deported as a prostitute where they pretend to be married and live in idyllic peace for a while. But when Des Grieux reveals their unmarried state to the Governor and asks to be wed with Manon the Governor's nephew sets his sights on winning Manon's hand. In despair Des Grieux challenges the Governor's nephew to a duel and knocks him unconscious. Thinking he had killed the man and fearing retribution the couple flee New Orleans and venture into the wilderness of Louisiana hoping to reach an English settlement. Manon dies of exposure and exhaustion the following morning and after burying his beloved Des Grieux is eventually taken back to France by Tiberge.<br/><br/>Maurice Leloir 1853-1940 was a French illustrator watercolourist draftsman printmaker writer and collector. Leloir was the son and pupil of painter Auguste Leloir and watercolorist Héloïse Suzanne Colin daughter of painter Alexandre-Marie Colin. His brother Alexandre-Louis Leloir was also a well known painter and illustrator. Leloir married Céline Bourdier with whom he had a daughter Suzanne Leloir who married Philippe the son of Pauline Savari in 1912. Leloir first exhibited his work at the Salon des Artistes Français of which he became the secretary. With many other painters he was a member of the Crozant School in the valleys of Creuse. In 1907 he was the founding president of the Société de l'histoire du costume and he donated the family's collection of fashion prints to the society.<br/>Around the 1890s Leloir and his students flooded the picture book market inspired by photographs representing accurately costumes and attitudes of the past much appreciated by bibliophiles. He was a prolific illustrator of books especially for children such as the Richelieu by Théodore Cahu of magazines and fans. In 1929 Leloir traveled to Hollywood at the urging of Douglas Fairbanks to work on his last silent film The Iron Mask. He chronicled his experiences in his memoir Five Months in Hollywood with Douglas Fairbanks.<br/><br/>Harben Henry Sir 1823 -1911. The pioneer of industrial life assurance Henry Harben rose to become President of the Prudential Assurance Company. He was knighted in 1897. He married Ann Such in 1846 with whom he had one son. In 1900 Sir Henry was elected the first mayor of the newly created Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead. In 1877 arms were granted to Henry Harben of Seaford Lodge Hampstead London.<br/><br/>References: <br/>Fléty Julien. Dictionnaire des relieurs français ayant exercé de 1800 à nos jours. Paris 1988.<br/>Suares Alain. Le livre de l'émeraude. Paris 1927. Paris: Librairie Charles Tallandier, 1898 unknown books
1112103<p>Original concept illustrations for the Walt Disney Pictures/Silver Screen Partners production of <em>Return to Oz</em>. The piece is graphite on onion skin with some extended sketching onto the stiff white backing paper to which the onion skin is taped. Inscribed "To Lynn Caponera - Maurice Oct '82." Framed and floated on a green matte.</p>
179028433Au Port Louis de l'Isle de France: L'Imprimerie Royale 1790. Folio. 13 x 8 1/4 inches. X2 A6. 4 1-9 3. 16 pp. Letterpress printed. Front wrapper printed black. Folded sheets three leaves loose. Title with woodcut Preface by Jollivet and Balu Instructions given by the Colony of the Isle of France to M. M. Collin and Coderc Articles I-XXI List of 31 signatories. Text in French. On laid paper watermarked with a crown cross and lion symbol. Woodcut printer's ornaments tail-piece. Early Mauritius imprint printed a year into the French Revolution from when it was the French colony of Isle de France; this letterpress document instructs the colony's deputies in the Assemblée Nationale in Paris on 21 articles.<br/> <br/> Early and unrecorded imprint from the colonial press at the French colony of Mauritius then known as the Isle de France. Isle de France was a French colony in the Indian Ocean from 1715 to 1810 comprising the African island now known as Mauritius and its dependent territories. It was governed by the French East India Company and formed part of the French colonial empire. Under the French the island witnessed major changes including the importation of enslaved people and the undertaking of vast infrastructural works that transformed the capital Port Louis into a major center of shipping warehousing and commerce. The present document records the steps made to establish what was largely an autonomous self-government of the colony a year into the French Revolution that was raging in Paris. Printing started in Mauritius in 1768. During the French colonial period until 1810 only about four hundred imprints were produced mostly official documents and newspapers though there are also almanacs and a few other sundry items. All are rare. No copies located in OCLC and it is not recorded by Toussaint in his bibliography of Mauritius imprints. The Dutch were the first Europeans to become interested in the island taking possession in 1598. After exploiting the island's dense forests for a century and introducing the cultivation of sugar cane and cotton in 1710 the Dutch abandoned the colony. The French soon claimed it as "Isle de France" and the island remained under the control of the French East India Company until 1767. During the long war between France and England at the beginning of the nineteenth century Mauritius proved to be an important strategic naval base and as a result the British took charge of the island in 1810. The Treaty of Paris confirmed official British possession in 1814. It remained an important sugar producing colony and in the twentieth century its agricultural production was expanded to include tea rice and other crops. L'Imprimerie Royale unknown
1939112422London: Macdonald and Co 1939. First edition of this overview of Hollywood. Quarto original cloth illustrated. Signed on the front pastedown and endpapers by <span class="match">Walt</span> <span class="match">Disney</span> and 13 other Hollywood actors and actresses including Chico Marx "To Pat Sincerely Chico Marx"; Pat O'Brien; "To Pat my own namesake Love Pat O'Brien Nov 21 1947; Deborah Kerr "I see a dark Stranger" on page 76 "with best wishes Deborah Kerr"; Merle Oberon "To Pat all the best Merle Oberon"; Joe E. Brown "To Pat Joe Brown." Brown was one of the most popular American comedians in the 1930s and 1940s with films like A Midsummer Night's Dream Earthworm Tractors Alibi Ike and Some Like It Hot. Jack Train "Best wishes Pat Jack Train Don't' mind if I do"; Ray Milland "Merry Xmas Pat Ray Milland." Milland is best remembered for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend<i> </i>leading man opposite John Wayne's corrupt character in Reap the Wild Wind 1942 the murder-plotting husband in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder 1954 and Oliver Barrett III in Love Story. <sup id="cite_ref-mgrmdmg_3-0" class="reference"></sup>Two of the signatures are pasted onto the end papers while the rest are signed directly onto the end papers with one on page 76. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. An exceptional collection of signatures in this film review book. Macdonald and Co hardcover books
1939112422London: Macdonald and Co 1939. First edition of this overview of Hollywood. Quarto original cloth illustrated. Signed on the front pastedown and endpapers by Walt Disney and 13 other Hollywood actors and actresses including Chico Marx "To Pat Sincerely Chico Marx"; Pat O'Brien; "To Pat my own namesake Love Pat O'Brien Nov 21 1947; Deborah Kerr "I see a dark Stranger" on page 76 "with best wishes Deborah Kerr"; Merle Oberon "To Pat all the best Merle Oberon"; Joe E. Brown "To Pat Joe Brown." Brown was one of the most popular American comedians in the 1930s and 1940s with films like A Midsummer Night's Dream Earthworm Tractors Alibi Ike and Some Like It Hot. Jack Train "Best wishes Pat Jack Train Don’t' mind if I do"; Ray Milland "Merry Xmas Pat Ray Milland." Milland is best remembered for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend leading man opposite John Wayne's corrupt character in Reap the Wild Wind 1942 the murder-plotting husband in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder 1954 and Oliver Barrett III in Love Story. Two of the signatures are pasted onto the end papers while the rest are signed directly onto the end papers with one on page 76. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. An exceptional collection of signatures in this film review book. Macdonald and Co hardcover
109Five rare books and associated ephemera all published in French from the private library of Maurice de Gandillac 1930-1966. Maritain Jacques: Éléments de Philosophie I: Introduction Générale a la Philosophie Paris: Pierre Téqui Libraire-Éditeur 1930. Reprint of the original 1920 edition. Original wrappers. Minor smudging and toning to wrappers and slight creasing to corners and faint staining to spine; minor toning to leaves. Portions uncut. Very good. Signed and inscribed by Jacques Maritain to Maurice de Gandillac on half-title page: "To Maurice de Gandillac / With affection / Jacques Maritain." Volume 1.<br /><br /> Maritain Jacques: De la Philosophie Chrétienne Paris: Desclée de Brouwer 1933. First edition. Original wrappers. Small red ink spot to foot of front wrapper; minor toning to leaves. Very good. Signed and inscribed by Jacques Maritain to Maurice de Gandillac on the front free endpaper: "To Maurice de Gandillac / Very affectionately / Jacques Maritain."<br /><br /> Maritain Jacques: Science et Sagesse Paris: Éditions Labergerie 1935. Original edition without large paper announcement. Original wrappers. Slight creasing to wrapper edges with chipping to blue wrappers along head and foot of spine; faint sunning and smudging to spine; leaves generally bright; very good. Signed and inscribed by Jacques Maritain to Maurice de Gandillac on half-title page: "To Maurice de Gandillac / Very affectionately / Jacques Maritain." Enclosed is a 4-page prospectus presenting "La Vie Donnée: Poémes de Raїssa Maritain" a collection of poems by Raїssa Maritain published the same year by the same publisher. The prospectus is horizontally folded with minor toning.<br /><br /> Maritain Jacques and Raїssa Maritain: Situation de la Poésie Paris: Desclée de Brouwer 1938. Original edition without large paper announcement. Original wrappers. Minor rubbing and creasing to spine with some spotting to spine and rear wrapper; some toning to leaves. Uncut. Very good. Signed and inscribed by both Jacques Maritain and Raїssa Maritain on front free endpaper: "To Maurice de Gandillac / Affectionate memory of / Jacques and Raїssa Maritain."<br /><br /> Maritain Jacques: Le Paysan de la Garonne Paris: Desclée de Brouwer 1966. Original edition without large paper announcement. Original wrappers. Minor toning and smudging to wrappers with slight cock to spine; pages bright. Very good. Signed and inscribed by Jacques Maritain to Maurice de Gandillac on half-title page: "To Maurice de Gandillac / With the faithful friendship of / Jacques Maritain."<br /><br /> Please see the pictures of the foregoing items for additional information and feel free to request additional information and pictures regarding the Jacques Maritain and Maurice de Gandillac Collection. Each item in the collection was published in French.<br /><br /> A unique collection of books and associated ephemera presented by Jacques Maritain 1882-1973 and his wife Raїssa Maritain 1883-1960 to Maurice de Gandillac. Jacques Maritain was an influential Catholic philosopher whose work helped generate a modern revival of Thomism and Aristotelianism. Maritain was a prolific author publishing over 60 books and his works and thought were highly influential throughout Europe and the United States. Maritain was instrumental in the development and drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and his religious and philosophical thought profoundly influenced Pope Paul VI to whom Maritain had acted as friend and mentor. Maritain's projects spanned many fields including philosophy religion politics aesthetics and the philosophy of science and among his enduring legacies is his promotion of integral humanism-a Christian humanism capable of giving expression to man's spiritual character and unlike secular humanism uniting rather than dividing the whole of human experience. Jacques Maritain studied at the Sorbonne and it was there that he met Raїssa Oumançoff a Russian Jewish émigré whom he would marry in 1904. Raїssa was a successful poet and noted mystic who would partner with her husband in a lifelong quest for the truth. Prior to their marriage in 1901 Jacques and Raїssa had joined in a suicide pact after becoming disillusioned with scientism i.e. the materialist view that truth only consists in what can be empirically verified in accordance with the scientific method and vowed to end their lives if they could not discover a deeper meaning to life within the year. The couple was spared death when they encountered the possibility of the absolute in the teachings of famed French philosopher Henri Bergson at the Collège de France. Jacques and Raїssa converted to Catholicism in 1906 and their studies thereafter led them to the works of Aquinas Aristotle and the neo-Thomists and Aristotelians. Jacques Maritain would become a lecturer at several institutions in France and the United States including Columbia University the University of Chicago the University of Notre Dame and Princeton University. From 1945 to 1948 he served as the French ambassador to the Holy See. Jacques and Raїssa maintained friendly and professional connections with esteemed French philosopher Maurice de Gandillac 1906-2006 who taught the history of Medieval and Renaissance philosophy at the Sorbonne. Gandillac wrote his thesis under the venerated Thomist Étienne Gilson and would go on to mentor and supervise the doctoral dissertations of a number of celebrated French academics including Louis Althusser Jean-François Lyotard Gilles Deleuze Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. This collection of rare books and associated ephemera is from Gandillac's private library and consists of works inscribed to Gandillac by Jacques and Raїssa Maritain including works of philosophy religion and aesthetics as well as a prospectus for a collection of poems by Raїssa. A truly unique collection of works that were passed from and between a few of the most influential and respected minds of the twentieth century-thinkers who works and thought continue to influence our modern world. Five rare books and associated ephemera (all published in French) from the private library of Maurice de Gandillac, 1930-1966
195021235681950. Paris. 1950-1953. 8vo. Vol. 1: Soft burnt orange covers vol. 2: formatted in the style of a magazine with text in two columns stapled vol. 3: grey soft covers stapled; vol. 1: pp. 181 3 vol.2: pp. 20 vol.3: 47 1; general wearing some toning; very good.The first major lettrist magazine complete in three volumes.UR is one of the iconic series of magazines published by the Lettrists. The first series including the unfindable third issue ran from 1950 to 1953 and belongs to one of the most creative and fertile periods of the Lettrist movement mixing theoretical texts poems photographs and drawings by the most important first-generation Lettrists. Within these three issues we find the first poems by Francois Dufrene the first theoretical text on Lettrist plastic arts by Isidore Isou the first plates of the metagraphic novel by Maurice Lemaitre as well as the first text on lettrist cinema and the first photographic works by Isou and Lemaitre; texts by Jean-Louis Brau Gil Wolman Serge Berna and Gabriel Pomerand along with responses by Andre Breton and Louis-Ferdinand Celine to a survey on Lettrism.The second series of UR was published by Editions Brunidor much later between 1964 and 1967 in the form of seven portfolios plus a box of artworks by the second generation of Lettrists printed in editions ranging from 30 to 130 copies. Included is the annoncement flyer for UR La Dictature Lettriste ndeg2 with Wolman Brau Pomerand Isou Lemaitre 270 x 210 mm 1951. paperback
147131New York: Random House 1981. First edition of this collection of stories paying homage to 50 years of Babar; from the library of Maurice Sendak. Small folio original full crushed morocco with gilt titles to the spine an illustration of Babar and "Maurice Sendak" stamped in gilt to the front panel original white satin ribbon marker laid in illustrated. Association copy inscribed by the authors to Maurice Sendak on the half-title page with an original drawing of Babar "To Maurice with all warm thoughts from Babar Jean de B. and Laurent 9.11.81." Additionally inscribed to Sendak by three others related to the publication of this work. In fine condition. Maurice Sendak author of Where the Wild Things Are is often hailed as “the Picasso of children’s books.†He has produced more than 85 books which have populated children’s imaginations for years. For his contributions to children’s literature Sendak received the third biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration in 1970 one of two inaugural Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awards in 2003 and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the professional children’s librarians in 1983. An exceptional association. Based on a story de Brunhoff's wife created for their children The Story of Babar was born. It is the tale of a young elephant who escapes a hunter in his native jungle and comes to appreciate the civilization and fine things of the big city. He later returns to the jungle where he is crowned King of the Elephant Kingdom for the wisdom and civility he has gained in his travels. The book enjoyed immediate success upon publication and de Brunhoff went on to publish six more stories in the series before his death in 1937. His son Laurent de Brunhoff carried on the series and it was made into an animated television series in Canada which ran a total of 65 episodes between 1889 and 1991. "Like an extravagant piece of poetry the interplay between few words and many pictures commonly called the picture book is a difficult exquisite and most easily collapsible form that few have mastered.Jean de Brunhoff was a master of this form. Between 1931 and 1937 he completed a body of work that forever changed the face of the illustrated book" Maurice Sendak. Random House unknown
1926N - 2026 - 28<p>Paris: H. Floury 1926–1927. A well-preserved DeLuxe set of Joyant's monumental monograph on Toulouse‑Lautrec issued in two volumes on Japan paper and each numbered 54 of their respective limited editions 175 copies for <em>Peintre</em> and 200 copies for <em>Dessins – Estampes – Affiches</em>. Both volumes are enriched with original graphic work and bounded in custom bindings with the original soft covers with spine and back preserved inside. Both are collected in a matching slipcase. The first volume <em>Peintre</em> 1926 contains three original drypoints each printed in double state bistre and black for a total of six impressions. The volume is profusely illustrated with full‑page reproductions in color in a single state and black issued in double state Black and Bistre. The second volume <em>Dessins – Estampes – Affiches</em> 1927 follows the same structure of the first volume offering three additional original drypoints printed in double state again totaling six impressions together with a rich series of full-page illustrations in both color single state and black double state. Accompanying the two volumes is the suite of four original lithographs each printed in double state green and black. These larger‑format plates measuring approximately 13 × 10 inches 25.5 × 33 cm were issued separately due to their size and are preserved the marbled portfolio with matching slipcase The full set is in very good conditions.</p> H. Floury