François MAURIAC

Autograph letter signed by François Mauriac (19 lines in black ink on letterhead from his Gironde estate of Malagar in Saint-Maixant) addressed to Abbé Casy Rivière.
Fold marks inherent to posting, two tears in the left and right margins of the letter due to folding.
François Mauriac understands and offers his full support to the abbé: "It is evident that you are called to live among the souls of Jesus. You are too sensitive to bear indefinitely the contact of those who hate him. But how I understand your desire not to leave them, having laid the foundations of a union, a brotherhood in Christ Jesus."
He also intends to offer his assistance in all that Casy Rivière will undertake: "If I could help you however little it might be, believe that I would be happy to do so. What a pity that I did not know you wanted to go to Lourdes: I have just returned from there; I was there last Saturday..." and invites him to Bordeaux when his friend can make the journey.
A handsome testimony to the Christian charity that animated the author of Génitrix and Thérèse Desqueyroux.

Autograph letter by François Mauriac signed with his initials (28 lines in blue ink on letterhead from his Parisian residence on avenue Théophile Gautier) addressed to Abbé Casy Rivière.
Fold mark inherent to envelope insertion.
François Mauriac discusses his upcoming summer travels: "... je pars le 20 en auto pour les Pyrénées et ne serai à Malagar que vers le 1 sept. Regrets ! ..." ("... I leave on the 20th by car for the Pyrenees and will only be at Malagar around September 1st. Regrets! ...") but also literary activity and certain religious allegiances attributed to the magazine La Table ronde: "Le Léautaud a paru pendant mon séjour à Florence et je l'ai beaucoup regretté. Cela ne se renouvellera plus. Mais n'allez pas croire que le T.R. soit une revue catholique. Je suis à peu près le seul à l'être dans la rédaction. Et c'est bien pourquoi je ne souhaite nullement qu'un vicaire la lise." ("Léautaud was published during my stay in Florence and I greatly regretted it. This will not happen again. But don't think that T.R. is a Catholic magazine. I am about the only one to be so on the editorial staff. And that's exactly why I do not wish at all for a vicar to read it.")
He ends the missive with this revelation concerning his productivity as a vacationer: "Je lutte désespérément pour mon travail personnel contre tout ce qui m'en détourne, surtout lorsque je suis loin de Paris." ("I desperately struggle for my personal work against everything that distracts me from it, especially when I am away from Paris.")

Autograph letter signed by François Mauriac (14 lines in blue ink) addressed to publisher Henri Lapina.
Fold mark inherent to mailing, annotations in purple ink in the upper right margin of the letter: "14/5 Mauriac".
François Mauriac has not yet completed his work: "...j'au une piste de nouvelles - mais il m'est impossible pour l'instant de vous donner le texte définitif..." ("...I have a lead on some short stories - but it is impossible for me at the moment to give you the final text...") and does not have a photographic portrait of himself for illustrating a frontispiece: "... vous en trouverez une très belle (photo) chez Martini rue de Penthièvre..." ("...you will find a very beautiful one (photo) at Martini's on rue de Penthièvre...")
In order to satisfy publisher Lapina more quickly, who is demanding a text from him, he submits this possibility: "Si, au lieu d'une nouvelle, vous préférez une vie de Lacordaire, je pourrais sans aucun doute, vous la donner plus tôt." ("If, instead of a short story, you would prefer a life of Lacordaire, I could undoubtedly give it to you sooner.")

First edition, one of 380 numbered copies on alfa paper.
Half navy blue morocco with corners, spine with four raised bands, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.
Handsome copy beautifully bound.

First edition, one of 8 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe copy.
Handsome copy despite two stains at the center of the first cover.
Autograph inscription signed by the publisher, Edouard Champion, to Maurice Queille.

First edition, one of 52 numbered copies on Montval paper, deluxe copy.
Endpapers very lightly and partially shaded, without consequence.
Handsome full-margined copy.

First edition, on ordinary paper, of François Mauriac's second work.
Handsome copy despite two small stains on the first cover.
Dated and signed autograph inscription from François Mauriac to François Hepp.

First edition, one of 470 numbered copies on alfa paper.
A full-margined copy.

First edition, one of 450 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies after 15 Japan.
Work illustrated with a portrait of François Mauriac by Uzlac.
Endpapers lightly and partially shaded, otherwise handsome copy.

First edition, one of 28 numbered copies on Japon, tirage de tête.
Autograph inscription from François Mauriac to Louis Brun, director of Editions Grasset : "... mon pemier essai au théâtre..."
Louis Brun's ex-librisprinted in front of the half title.
A very good copy with good margins.

First edition, one of 14 numbered copies on Madagascar paper, the tirage de tête.
Scratching, not serious, to lower cover, three tiny tears to margins of the covers, a good copy.

First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on Holland paper, ours one of the few hors commerce copies.
Other contributions by Nicolas Berdiaeff, Denis de Rougemont, Daniel-Rops...
Spine lightly sunned, two tiny tears at foot of joints, full-margined copy.

First edition. One of 150 numbered copies on pur fil, only deluxe issue after 65 copies on pur fil for the "Amis des beaux livres".
With a frontispiece photographic portrait of Mermoz.
Released a few months after Mermoz's fatal plane crash in the Atlantic Ocean, a year before his famous biograpy by Kessel, this book includes all of the aviator's writings as well as stories and homages by his friends. 
A handsome copy with wide margins.
 

Edition, un des exemplaires numérotés sur vélin blanc, le nôtre un des 75 hors commerce.
Petites déchirures sans gravité en tête et en pied du dos, agréable exemplaire.
Bel envoi autographe signé de François Mauriac à Bernard Barbey : "... ce petit singe en échange de ses grands chevaux. De tout coeur."

First edition, one of numbered copies du service de presse.
Half morocco, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed by Alix.
A nice copy elegantly bound.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by François Mauriac to André Malraux.

First edition, one of 24 numbered copies on Imperial Japan, head draw.
Pleasant copy at all margins despite a trace fold at the foot of the first board.

First edition, one of 50 copies out of commerce numbered on Alfa paper.
Insolated back with two tears in the foot.
Autograph dedication signed by François Mauriac to Maurice Martin du Gard.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Bound in navy blue half morocco with small corners, smooth back, golden tail date, frames of golden fillets on green apple paper plates, guards and contreplats of green apple paper, covers and back preserved, gilded head, binding signed by Daniel -Henri Mercher.
Precious autograph dedication signed by François Mauriac: "To Valéry Larbaud with my deep gratitude for the autograph dedication of the author of his delicious stories (I dare not write for" the autograph dedication of the author of lovers "François Mauriac."

first edition, one of the review copies service.
A precious autograph signed by François Mauriac to Jacques Chardonne: "... who is not of this sheepfold, his admirer (more than ever at the rereading of the complete works) and his friend ..." and his wife.
Some discreet restorations on the back and flat covers.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on Montval and reimposed in quarto foolscap, drawing in leading copies most restricted.
Guards double coverage and lightly shaded guards, a fold mark on the second flat of the double coverage.

First edition, one of 1000 numbered copies on vergé de Rives paper.
With original etchings by Georges Bruyer.
A good copy.

first edition on the current paper.
Signed autograph of François Mauriac André Simon.
A clear and wetness small Length of back and front cover, otherwise nice copy.

First edition of the second book of the author.
Two slight traces of sunning, not serious, to head and foot of spine.
A good copy.

First edition, a numbered copy on alfa paper.
Spine slightly sunned to head and foot, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition, a numbered copy on alfa paper.
A very good copy.

A complete set of the Les Nuits series, as published by Flammarion. First editions of some of the 12 works, each one of 750 numbered copies reimposed on vélin de Rives paper.
The works are bound in threes in half navy-blue shagreen by Houades, the spines decorated with stars and crescent moons in palladium, upper covers preserved (some lower also retained), all edges gilt.
All the works are illustrated with etchings, lithographs or woodcuts, each by a different artist from among the following : Alexeieff, Ahü, Dignimont, Baudier, Renefer, Drouart, Mainssieux, Suréda, Fouqueray, Serveau and Dethomas.
A very good and rare complete set of the Les Nuits series, as published by Flammarion.

First edition, one of 675 numbered copies on Alfa paper, ours one of 50 registered.
Signed autograph of François Mauriac Edmond Weinstein for which the copy was printed.
spine browned.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Madagascar, tirage de tête.
With an autograph inscription from François Mauriac to Philippe Mery.

first edition on the current paper.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed by François Mauriac André Chevrillon: "... this little world of the past ..."
Yellowed paper as often.