Henri BARBUSSE

Henri BARBUSSE

Born17 mai 1873
Died30 août 1935
LanguageFrench
NationalityFrance
Historien. Essayiste et romancier
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BARBUSSE, Henri
  1. "Il est certain que les femmes sont plus prêtes à la vie que les hommes en ce sens qu'elles sont moins préparées à la mort par la tradition idéologique"
    Henri BARBUSSE

    "Il est certain que les femmes sont plus prêtes à la vie que les hommes en ce sens qu'elles sont moins préparées à la mort par la tradition idéologique"A laudatory autograph letter addressed to his wife Hélyonne Mendès who deploys all her energy for the political causes she has embraced

    S. n.|Miramar [Saint-Raphaël] s. d. [ca 1927]|13 x 20.50 cm|1 page
    Autograph letter signed and dated by Henri Barbusse addressed to a friend, 23 lines written in blue ink, very probably addressed to his wife Hélyonne Mendès.
    Fold marks inherent to being placed in an envelope.
    Letter entirely imbued with the admiration that Henri Barbusse professed for his wife Hélyonne Mendès, daughter of writer Catulle Mendès and musician and composer Augusta Holmès: "J'ai lu avec joie ta lettre rayonnante de vie, comme toi... Je t'entends aussi donnant du souffle à l'américaine pacifiste et aux corprs paralys de la Ligue. Mais quel grand effort infatigable il faut pour refouler toujours toutes les espèces de morts." ("I read with joy your letter radiant...
    €350
  2. Belle lettre autographe adressée à son amour et évoquant ses pérégrinations pour s'immiscer dans la vie politique des Balkans, notamment en Roumanie : "Mon séjour en Roumanie a été extrêmement rempli et a eu une très grande répercussion : campagnes de journaux, incidents à la chambre, manifestations populaires et qq criailleries fascistes etc..."
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Belle lettre autographe adressée à son amour et évoquant ses pérégrinations pour s'immiscer dans la vie politique des Balkans, notamment en Roumanie : "Mon séjour en Roumanie a été extrêmement rempli et a eu une très grande répercussion : campagnes de journaux, incidents à la chambre, manifestations populaires et qq criailleries fascistes etc..."

    S. n.|s. l. 25 Novembre 1925|14.50 x 19.50 cm|2 pages sur un feuillet
    Autograph letter dated and signed by Henri Barbusse addressed to a female friend, 32 lines written in black ink from the steamship Vaporul Regele Caroli.
    Folds inherent to mailing, letterhead paper of the Romanian maritime services and the Vaporul Regele Caroli.
    While on a cruise from Constanza to Constantinople, Henri Barbusse languishes in the absence of the woman he loves: "Pendant tout le voyage, qui en est à peu près à la moitié, je n'ai cessé de penser à toi, ma belle, et je viens à toi en ce moment, à travers les distances et les préoccupations de toutes sortes, comme à ma vérité essentielle et suprême, comme partout et comme toujours." (Throughout the entire...
    €350
  3. Le feu (journal d'une escouade)
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Le feu (journal d'une escouade)[Under Fire : The Story of a Squad]

    Flammarion|Paris 1924|15 x 19.5 cm|2 volumes brochés

    New edition, limited to 2,000 numbered copies on Lafuma vellum.

    Signed autograph presentation inscription by Henri Barbusse beneath the limitation statement: "A Marcel Granoux fraternellement. Henri Barbusse."

    Included are an original photograph of Henri Barbusse (8.9 × 13.8 cm, from the G.L. Manuel Frères studio), showing him full face, together with two typed letters dated 28 April and 2 July 1930, signed by Henri Barbusse, concerning an article he was late in sending and a copy of Le Feu that he promises to inscribe and forward to his correspondent.

    The first typed letter also bears two manuscript corrections by Henri...

    €450
  4. Pleureuses
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Pleureuses

    Charpentier|Paris 1895|12 x 19 cm|broché
    First edition on ordinary paper.
    Minor lacks to foot of sunned spine and to board margins.
    Autograph inscription dated and signed by Henri Barbusse to Jules Cornely.








    €80
  5. Lettre autographe datée et signée à propos de la constitution d'une Ligue Internationale des écrivains contre le fascisme
    Charles VILDRAC (à Henri BARBUSSE)

    Lettre autographe datée et signée à propos de la constitution d'une Ligue Internationale des écrivains contre le fascisme

    Paris 5 Janvier 1935|21 x 18.50 cm|une page sur un feuillet

    Autograph letter dated and signed by Charles Vildrac to Henri Barbusse; one page with his monogram blind-stamped in the upper left corner and written in black ink on one leaf, 18 lines.
    Postal folds, a small tear at the foot of the letter without any damage to the text.
    Charles Vildrac congratulates Henri Barbusse for his militant devotion and dynamism: "J'ai pris connaissance du Manifeste appel pour une ligue internationale des écrivains et j'y adhère sans réserves en applaudissant à votre généreuse initiative." ["I have read the Manifesto calling for an international league of writers and I join it without reservation, applauding your generous...

    €250
  6. Clarté
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Clarté

    Flammarion|Paris 1919|12 x 18.50 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 250 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies.
    A small tear to the upper left corner of the front cover and a restoration to its verso, handsome full-margined copy.


    €60
  7. L'enfer
    Henri BARBUSSE, Édouard CHIMOT

    L'enfer[Hell]

    Albin Michel|Paris 1921|25.50 x 33 cm|relié sous étui
    Definitive edition illustrated with 24 original etchings by Edouard Chimot, one of 355 numbered copies on Arches vellum.
    Full black morocco binding, smooth spine decorated with horizontal palladium bands heightened with horizontal lines of red and brown mosaic morocco, cold-stamped roulettes on headcaps, traces of rubbing on one weakened joint, covers decorated with a large interlacing design in palladium set with pieces of red and green mosaic morocco, endpapers and pastedowns of moiré-effect paper, frame of palladium fillet and palladium fleurons in corner-pieces of pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, cold fillet on edges, top edge gilt, slipcase bordered with black morocco...
    €1,200
  8. Force (trois films)
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Force (trois films)

    Flammarion|Paris 1926|17 x 19.50 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe copy.
    Handsome full-margined copy.
    €150
  9. Jésus
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Jésus

    Flammarion|Paris 1927|12 x 19 cm|relié
    First edition, one of 140 numbered copies on laid paper, the only deluxe copies after 60 on Arches laid paper.
    Half red shagreen binding with corners, spine with four raised bands set with black fillets, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding.
    Handsome copy.


    €70
  10. Les Judas de Jésus
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Les Judas de Jésus

    Flammarion|Paris 1927|14.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on vergé d'Arches, tirage de tête.
    A very good copy with good margins.
    €120
  11. Clarté
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Clarté

    Flammarion|Paris 1919|13.50 x 20.50 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 250 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies.
    Title page and final endpaper shaded, otherwise handsome copy with full margins.
    €120
  12. "Akademos will remain an ephemeral nonetheless high-quality creation, a groundbreaking gesture that will be an important milestone both in the history of the homosexual movement and the beginning of the 20th century"
    Akademos, Revue mensuelle d'art libre et de critique
    Jacques d' ADELSWÄRD-FERSEN (ed.) Tristan DERÈME

    Akademos, Revue mensuelle d'art libre et de critique[Akademos, Monthly Review of Free Art and Criticism – Complete Set of the Twelve Deluxe Issues]

    Albert Messein|Paris 15 janvier 1909-15 décembre 1909|22 x 25 cm|12 livraisons reliées en quatre volumes

    First edition, complete with all 12 issues of this luxurious and short-lived review founded and directed by Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, one of the exceedingly rare copies on japon, the only deluxe paper, with four states of the colour engravings.

    Bound in half sand-coloured cloth, morocco lettering pieces, marbled paper boards, spines and wrappers preserved for each issue, a fine copy with wide margins.

    Our copy indeed contains the four colour states reserved for the deluxe issue, printed on various papers, of each of the 23 photogravures in Arts & Crafts, Symbolist, Renaissance, Art Nouveau, and Classical styles, after Maxwell Armfield, Henri...

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  13. Le feu
    Henri BARBUSSE, BERTHOLD-MAHN

    Le feu

    Les oeuvres représentatives|Paris 1930|17 x 22 cm|2 volumes brochés
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  15. La guerre en Ethiopie
    Henri BARBUSSE, COLLECTIF

    La guerre en Ethiopie

    Editions mondiales|Paris s. d. [1936]|14.50 x 20.50 cm|agrafé
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  16. Pleureuses
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Pleureuses

    Charpentier|Paris 1895|13 x 19.50 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Holland paper, ours not justified, only large papers.
    Rare and pleasant copy at all margins.
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  17. Le feu
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Le feu

    Flammarion|Paris 1916|12 x 19 cm|relié
    First edition on current paper.
    Binding in brown full morocco, smooth back adorned with a set of nets and tracery gilded framed by black nets and dotted golden repeating on the boards, black rollers on the caps, guards and contreplats of marbled paper, framing of a large golden lace on the contreplats, covers and back preserved, golden head.
    Pleasant copy enriched by an autograph letter signed by Henri Barbusse, dated July 25, 1899, headed by the Ministry of Agriculture, thanking his correspondent for an invitation he will soon be honoring.
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  18. Les bourreaux
    Henri BARBUSSE, Raymond RENEFER

    Les bourreaux

    Flammarion|Paris 1926|12 x 19 cm|broché
    First edition, printed stamp of press service, partly erased, at the foot of the second plate.
    Insolated back, yellowed paper.
    Illustrated book of a wood of Raymond Renefer on the first cover plate.
    Autograph dedication signed by Henri Barbusse Maurice Martin Gard.
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  20. Le feu
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Le feu

    Flammarion|Paris 1916|11.50 x 19 cm|relié
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  21. L'enfer
    Henri BARBUSSE, BERTHOLD-MAHN

    L'enfer

    Georges Crès & Cie|Paris 1925|14.50 x 23 cm|relié
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  22. Clarté
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Clarté

    Flammarion|Paris 1919|12 x 18.50 cm|relié
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  23. Pleureuses
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Pleureuses

    Flammarion|Paris 1920|12 x 19 cm|relié
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  25. La force
    Henri BARBUSSE

    La force

    Flammarion|Paris 1926|12 x 19 cm|relié
    First edition, review copy.
    Bound in red half shagreen with corners, back with four nerves set with black nets, plates, guards and contreplats, marbled paper, wrappers and back preserved and bound in, gilded head on witnesses, contemporary binding.
    Signed autograph Henri Barbusse to Frantz Funck-Brentano.
    Nice copy.
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  27. Elévation
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Elévation

    Flammarion|Paris 1930|12 x 19 cm|relié
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  29. Russie
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Russie

    Flammarion|Paris 1930|12 x 19 cm|relié
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  32. Zola
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Zola

    Gallimard|Paris 1932|12 x 19 cm|broché
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  33. Le feu
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Le feu

    Flammarion|Paris 1916|14 x 20 cm|relié
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  34. Les Judas de Jésus
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Les Judas de Jésus

    Flammarion|Paris 1927|12 x 19 cm|broché
    First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
    Handsome autograph inscription from Henri Barbusse to Henri Bergson.
    Retaining its advertising slip.
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  35. Le feu
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Le feu

    Flammarion|Paris 1916|16.50 x 26 cm|relié
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  36. Jésus
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Jésus

    Flammarion|Paris 1927|12.50 x 19 cm|relié
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  37. Clarté
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Clarté

    Flammarion|Paris 1919|12 x 19 cm|relié
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  38. Le feu
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Le feu

    Flammarion|Paris 1924|14.50 x 19.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
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  39. Les Judas de Jésus
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Les Judas de Jésus

    Flammarion|Paris 1927|12 x 19 cm|broché
    First edition, one of the copies on alfa paper.
    Light foxing mainly affecting the rear endpaper, otherwise handsome copy.
    €30
  41. Faits divers
    Henri BARBUSSE

    Faits divers

    Flammarion|Paris 1928|14.50 x 20 cm|broché
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