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Typescript of Buñuel's last screenplay, which has remained unpublished. 
Half marbled sheep over beige paper boards, spine in five compartments, bound for Buñuel.
The unpublished original typescript of Buñuel's screenplay, comprising 109 leaves with numerous corrections and deletions from Jean-Claude Carrière, who was a collaborator of the director's for nigh on twenty years, and two leaves entirely written in the latter's hand.
11 leaves bound in at the beginning, extracts from the autobiographical text Pesimismo (1980) by Buñuel.
This screenplay, entirely...

Handwritten, censored letter by Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, written in fine writing across two pages addressed to his wife Renée-Pélagie. A number of examples of underlinings, crossing-out and erasing.

Without a date, this letter was written in early March 1781 in Vincennes prison.
The end of the letter was mutilated at the time, probably by the prison administration which destroyed the Marquis' licentious correspondence. In 1948 the letter was found as it was when the Marquis' trunk, which had been sealed by the family since 1814, was opened; it was published in this reduced form as part of the Marquis de Sade's correspondence.
Provenance: family...

“Sur ce que j’ai de plus en plus sacré jamais je ne croirai aux leçons des sectateurs d’un dieu qui se croient permis d’outrager la créature pour honorer le créateur. [“However close I get to the sacred, I will never accept the teachings of the followers of a god who thinks himself entitled to defame the created to honor the creator”.]
“[…] si les hommes me refusent leur justice, il me restera toujours des moyens de me la faire. Elle a aussi des yeux – […], il ne faut que de l’argent pour trouver des coquins…[If I am refused the justice of men, I will find a way to manage. She, too, has eyes…and with money you can...