Violette LEDUC

First edition, one of the review copies.

Signed presentation inscription from Violette Leduc to Claude Couffon, a specialist in and translator of the leading Spanish-language writers of the second half of the twentieth century: "... après un chaleureux entretien et mon souvenir intact de son article pour ce livre..."

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...

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...

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...

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 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..."]

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.