Lucien CLERGUE
Carte postale autographe signée adressée depuis Los Angeles à son amie Clémentine Bernard
S. n.|Los Angeles 1992|15.50 x 11 cm|une page
Autograph signed postcard from Lucien Clergue, 10 lines addressed from Los Angeles to Clémentine Bernard.
The postcard features a photograph of a dog, in Paris, by Richard Kalvar in 1975.
"Mon cher Bicou,
J'étais si heureux de te voir à Gréoux. Je suis à Los Angeles et sans doute près d'être à Arles quand tu recevras cette carte. Je t'embrasse très fort ainsi que Maryse et Edouard Lucien." (My dear Bicou, I was so happy to see you in Gréoux. I am in Los Angeles and will probably be close to Arles when you receive this card. I embrace you warmly as well as Maryse and Edouard Lucien.)

€180
Elvire POPESCO
Lettre autographe signée Elvire et adressée à ses amis Alice et Carlo Rim à propos de l'état de santé précaire de son ami et longtemps amant Louis Verneuil alors en exil aux Etats-Unis : "Il fait tout ce qu'il peut pour me faire rester ici, moi je fais tout ce que je peux pour le ramener dans notre pays où nous avons ensemble laissé au théâtre toute notre jeunesse."
S. n.|Los Angeles s. d. [1943]|21.50 x 28 cm|une feuille recto-verso
Moving autograph letter signed (30 lines in blue ink from the Californian exile of Louis Verneuil, whose muse Elvire Popesco had become) Elvire, addressed to her friends Rim.
In this letter, entirely imbued with nostalgia linked to their shared youth and loves, Elvire Popesco expresses concern about the health condition of Louis Verneuil, whose muse she had become through their collaboration:
: "Chez Mr Louis Verneuil
474 North Faring Road
Holmby Hills
Los Angeles
California.
Mes chéris, je suis venue voir Louis Verneuil qui a été très gravement malade, un caillot dans l'aorte, et malgré une amélioration, les docteurs ne sont pas certains d'u
€400
Edgar Rice BURROUGHS
Tarzan and "the foreign legion"
Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc|Tarzana [Los Angeles] 1947|16 x 24 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition.
Publisher's full blue cloth binding, smooth spine, red top edge, complete with its illustrated dust jacket discreetly reinforced on the interior.
Work decorated with illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs.
€500
Edgar Rice BURROUGHS
Tarzan and the forbidden city
Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc|Tarzana [Los Angeles] 1938|13.50 x 19.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition.
Publisher's full blue cloth binding, smooth spine, red top edge, complete with its illustrated dust jacket.
Traces of removed labels on the inside of the endpapers.
Work illustrated by John Coleman Burroughs.
€500
Edgar Rice BURROUGHS
Tarzan triumphant
Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc|Tarzana [Los Angeles] 1932|13.50 x 19.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition.
Publisher's full blue cloth binding, smooth spine, red top edge, the illustrated dust jacket of our copy is not the original one.
Gift inscription in pen and a library shelving indication at the head of an endpaper.
Work illustrated by Studley O. Burroughs.
€500
Edgar Rice BURROUGHS
Tarzan and the leopard man
Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc|Tarzana [Los Angeles] 1935|13.50 x 19.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
Edition of the year of the original published the same year in Chicago by A. C. McClurg & Co.
Publisher's full red cloth binding, smooth spine, red top edge, handsome copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket.
Work illustrated by J. Allen Saint-John.
€500
(Pierre DRIEU LA ROCHELLE) Frédéric J. GROVER
Drieu la Rochelle and the fiction of testimony
University of California press|Berkeley • & Los Angeles 1958|14.50 x 22.50 cm|relié
Original American edition from which it was not drawn from large papers.
Binding in bradel in full gray cardboard, smooth back.
Beautiful copy.
Rare and beautiful autograph shipment signed by Frederic Grover, in French, to François Nourissier.
€80
Henry MILLER
Correspondance manuscrite complète d'Henry Miller avec Béatrice Commengé Henry Miller's complete manuscript correspondence with Beatrice Commenge
Pacific Palisades [Los Angeles] 1976-1978|23 pages A4
Henry Miller's complete manuscript correspondence with Béatrice Commengé
Pacific Palisades (CA) 1976-1978 | 23 pages 21 x 29.7 cm
A superb complete set of 17 autograph letters signed by Henry Miller and addressed to the writer Béatrice Commengé, the author most notably of Henry Miller, ange, clown, voyou [Henry Miller: angel, clown, thug] and translator of a number of works by Anaïs Nin. With an autograph envelope addressed by Henry Miller to Béatrice Commengé and an autograph letter signed by Anaïs Nin to Béatrice Commengé.
In 1976, Béatrice Commengé, then a young literature student, began writing a thesis on Anaïs Nin and Henry Mill
€7,800
Edgar Rice BURROUGHS
Tarzan the invincible
Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc|Tarzana [Los Angeles] 1931|13.50 x 19.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
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Francis LIMÉRAT
Pacific Palisades. Cahier N°1. 6 stations
S. n.|Los Angeles 1996|14.50 x 19.50 cm|en feuilles
Pacific Palisades. Cahier N°1. 6 stations
n. n. | Los Angeles 1996 | 14.5 x 19.5 cm | in leaves
First edition, printed in a small number of copies, of this fascicule No. 1, the only one that appeared, showcasing the artist's graphic work.
A good and rare copy consisting of a collection of 6 hors-texte engravings.
"My desire is that the reading of this journey of lines, their crossings, their very suspense, should be of the very slowest possible and free of all leading thoughts, so that the mind can relish the figures of the voids thus defined.
It is this place, this out-of-place that summons, I think, these paradoxical gestures of construction carefully destroyed, subject
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Luis BUNUEL
Carte d'identification professionnelle signée de Luis Buñuel
Los Angeles 26 novembre 1945 - 8 août 1946|9.50 x 12.70 cm|une carte
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(Luis BUNUEL) (Alfred HITCHCOCK)
Coupure de presse comportant une photographie de groupe représentant Luis Buñuel et Alfred Hitchcock, ainsi que d'autres réalisateurs signée de la main de Luis Buñuel
Los Angeles Times|Los Angeles 20 novembre 1972|28 x 31 cm|une coupure de presse pliée en deux
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V. SEGNO
Le secret de la mémoire, démonstration d'une nouvelle théorie
Sté de publication du Segnogram|Los Angeles 1906|20.50 x 13.50 cm|broché
First edition published in a small number of copies.
A small lack at head of spine, slight corner lacks to boards which is inevitable for this oblong format pamphlet, fine interior condition.
Rare.
€120
Nada-Devi DASI
Krsna art
Ganga|New-York [New York] • & Los Angeles • & Bombay [Mumbai] 1990|35 x 40 cm|reliure de l'éditeur sous étui
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Alan SCHAM
Lyautey in Morocco, protectorate administration 1912-1925
University of California press|Los Angeles • & London 1970|16 x 24 cm|reliure cartonnée de l'éditeur
First edition.
Publisher's full blue boards, complete with its dust jacket marginally faded on the back panel and bearing small tears with very minor lacks of no consequence.
Precious double autograph inscription by Alan Scham (one on the front endpaper, the other on a card pasted below the first inscription in which the author specifies his address to the dedicatee) to the son of Marshal Lyautey.
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