Violette LEDUC

Autograph letter signed by Violette Leduc addressed to Adriana, probably Adriana Salem, 20 lines in blue ink.
Fold marks inherent to postal handling and small marginal losses due to removal of the leaf.
Violette Leduc is still in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie: "... bloquée par les belles choses cherchées et trouvées dans la nature : des grosses, des vieilles pierres de couleurs, des fossiles" ("... blocked by the beautiful things sought and found in nature: big, old colored stones, fossils") and cheerfully enjoys her walks in the open countryside: "J'ai marché des kilomètres et des kilomètres sous la pluie, sous l'orage ..." ("I walked kilometers and kilometers in the rain, in the storm ...")
She worries about having everything she has gathered during her wanderings transported to Paris: "... j'ai porté ces chargements. Maintenant, je me demande comment les expédier. Il y en a beaucoup. L'idée que tout arriverait en miettes me désole, vous le comprendrez." ("... I carried these loads. Now, I wonder how to ship them. There are many. The idea that everything would arrive in pieces dismays me, you will understand.")

Autograph letter signed by Violette Leduc addressed to Adriana, probably Adriana Salem, 21 lines in blue ink.
Folding inherent to mailing and small marginal lacks due to removal of the sheet.
Thank-you letter sent from her Versailles home: "J'ai bien reçu la boîte de gâteaux, merci de tout mon coeur, comme c'est gentil." ("I received the box of cakes, thank you with all my heart, how kind.")
Violette Leduc being mentally ill, she informs her correspondent of her medical treatment program: "Simone de Beauvoir m'emmenera à la Vallée aux Loups, dans la clinique du Dr Le Savoureux mais Diatkine me reverra avant ici, c'est long enfin si j'en sors ! " ("Simone de Beauvoir will take me to Vallée aux Loups, to Dr Le Savoureux's clinic but Diatkine will see me again before that here, it's long finally if I get out of it!") and asks for her news.
Adriana Salem was the daughter of Frederic Gentili di Giuseppe, representative of the Italian Minister of Finance in Paris and great collector of Italian Renaissance paintings.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Handsome copy despite the spine being very lightly sunned.
Signed autograph inscription from the author to Raymonde Jannet: "... avec beaucoup de sympathie..." ["...with much sympathy..."]

Autograph letter signed by Violette Leduc addressed to Adriana Salem. One page written in blue ink on a school notebook sheet.
Transverse folds inherent to mailing and small marginal losses due to removal of the sheet from the notebook.
Charming letter sent from Saint-Cirq-Lapopie: "Me voici à Saint Cirq La Popie (sic) depuis vendredi dernier et m'y voici seule. [...] L'été est revenu, et il s'est installé depuis mon départ. C'est un site extraordinaire, connaissez-vous ?" ["Here I am at Saint Cirq La Popie (sic) since last Friday and here I am alone. [...] Summer has returned, and it has settled in since my departure. It's an extraordinary site, do you know it?"] It was undoubtedly on the invitation of Thérèse Plantier, her friend who was also a writer, that Violette Leduc went to Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, André Breton's stronghold. "In the 1950s, the department of Lot was chosen as a testing ground by the Citizens of the World movement: a globalist movement advocating for a planet without borders, governed by world law. Cahors became the first city to sign a globalization charter, followed by 248 municipalities in the department, and declared itself 'Cahors mundi,' a world city. Several personalities - politicians, intellectuals, artists - joined this movement initiated by Garry Davis, a former pilot in the American army. Among them, André Breton (1896-1966), but also Max Ernst, Albert Camus and even Abbé Pierre. On June 24, 1950, André Breton participated in the inauguration of the Route sans frontière n°1 symbolically linking Cahors to Figeac. The route was then supposed to cross the world and reach Berlin, China, Japan and the United States. On the occasion of this inauguration, André Breton discovered the village of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie." (Archives du Lot)
Adriana Salem was the daughter of Frederic Gentili di Giuseppe, representative of the Italian Minister of Finance in Paris and great collector of Italian Renaissance paintings.

Autograph letter signed by Violette Leduc addressed to Adriana Salem, written in three stages in blue ink on two sheets detached from a schoolchild's notebook.
The three stages of this letter concern the regretted purchase of a record player that Violette Leduc wishes to exchange for a transistor radio.

first edition entirely out of trade and printed with 25 numbered copies.
Signed autograph signed by Violette Leduc: "... in remembrance of Italy and Spain too." With my friendship, January 24, 1956. Violette Leduc, the name of the dedicatee was cleanly scratched.
Our copy is enriched with an engraved portrait of Violette Leduc embellished with a handwritten precision of Jacques Guérin.
Very rare work consisting of the facsimile of the autograph manuscript and presented under a shirt in floral and lace-patterned wallpaper, title tag sticking on the first flat.
Pleasant copy.

First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only large paper copies.
A very good copy.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Small marginal stitches on the boards and the back.
Autograph signed by Violette Leduc to Florence Gould.

first edition, one of the review copies service.
Autograph signed by Violette Leduc to Pierre Dumayet.
Inscribed back with a pale wetting.

first edition, one of the review copies service.
Autograph signed by Violette Leduc to Pierre Dumayet.
Back very slightly insolated.

first edition, one of the review copies service.
Autograph signed by Violette Leduc to Pierre Dumayet.
Pleasant copy

First edition, one of 55 numbered copies on pur fil, the only large paper copies with 3 Hollande hors commerce.
Two slight traces of sunning, not serious, to head and to foot of spine.
A very good copy.

Second edition, one of 85 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only large paper copies.
A very good copy.