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Manuscript pages from ‘Conversations with Professor Y', n.p. [Meudon] n.d. [1954], various sizes (from 10x21 cm to 27x21 cm), 34 sheets.
Autograph manuscript by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 34 sheets of various sizes, written in blue and sometimes pink ballpoint pen. Some of the pages are numbered by Céline at top left. The last folio numbered 159 is signed by the writer at the bottom.
Two leaves contain previously unpublished passages: the first, a few lines long, refers to the Professeur. The second leaf numbered 136 features another full-page text on the verso which we did not find in the ‘Professeur Y' or in any of the published works of Céline...

Autograph letter signed to Madame Catusse, 12,6x20,4cm, 3 pages on a double leaf.

Autograph letter signed by Marcel Proust, probably addressed to Madame Catusse. The recipient and date have been determined by Proust scholar Jean-Yves Tadié. Three pages in black ink on a double leaf edged in black. A fold inherent to the mailing.
A sombre and admirable letter steeped in Proustian melancholy. The future author of In Search of Lost Time feels more than ever the loss of his mother during the New Year period. The famously generous Proust also asks his faithful confidante Madame Catusse to buy a gift for the Straus couple, whose wife inspired...

"My dear director, under the terms of our agreements, I am ready to read, I have chosen tomorrow, Wednesday, and I have told your stage manager the names of the actors to whom I entrust our play. I've done a bit of your job, I've conquered Madame Dorval who will make you rich, I'll bring her myself. Find here, my dear d'Épagny, a thousand regards, I have given you proof of our old...

Autograph poem signed by symbolist poet Adolphe Retté in alexandrine quatrains entitled "Nocturne au parc".
Crease marks inherent to postal folding.
The poem, 34 lines in black ink on two leaves and dedicated to Octave Uzanne, will appear in the collection entitled "L'archipel en fleurs" published in 1895 by "La bibliothèque artistique et littéraire":
"Nocturne au parc
A Octave Uzanne
Le parc, que le printemps vêt de feuilles nouvelles,
S'ensommeille aux chansons qui passent dans la brise
Et des roses en fleurs, pareilles à des belles,
Parfument les massifs dont la lune est éprise.
L'Avril tiède languit sous les...

Autograph poem signed by Swiss poet Charles Fuster in alexandrine quatrains and tercets entitled "Au temps de Jeanne".
Crease marks inherent to postal folding.
The poem, 15 lines in black ink on one leaf, will appear in the Swiss French-language review "Le semeur" of June 25, 1889, of which Charles Fuster was editor-in-chief:
"Au temps de Jeanne
Quand la bonne Lorraine, en son pays de France,
Rythmait sa rêverie au bas des destriers,
Quand elle s'en allait aux combats meurtriers,
Vierge de flêtrissure et ferme d'espérance,
Quand les rameaux moussus et de calme apparence
Regardaient passer Jeanne auprès de leurs foeyrs,
Plus d'une...

Poem in Alexandrine quatrain and tercet, autograph signed by Swiss poet Charles Fuster, entitled "Au temps de Jeanne".
At the top of the poem, pencil annotations by an editor from Mercure de France.
The poem, 15 lines in black ink on a sheet, would appear in the "Mercure de France" review of September 1890 with a variant in the first stanza (: "la grâce de son visage" becoming in the final state "la peau de son visage")
"Aquarelle
C'est d'un grain de satin la grâce de son visage
Bleue à croire qu'un bleu reflet de lune y joue
Et le nez qui nuement fait ombre sur la joue
La grâce en a modelé tous les cartilages !
Le cold-cream obligeant fixe...

Unpublished poem in Alexandrine quatrain, autograph signed by Gustave Téry, entitled "Silencieux".
Fold marks inherent to postal handling.
The poem, 14 lines in black ink on a sheet, is unpublished:
"Silencieux
Mes regards vous ont dit que je vous adorais.
Vous avez entendu leur prière muette,
[...]
Vous ne m'entretenez que de choses frivoles ;
Mais je lis, dans vos yeux, ce que vous me taisez.
Ne dites rien. Gardez vos lèvres aux baisers.
Et parlez à mon coeur la langue sans paroles.
[...]
Qu'il reste enseveli le secret de nos âmes !
Votre rêve est le mien. Ne parlez pas : j'entends.
G.T.."
Fold...

Autograph signed poem quatrain by poet Franc-Nohain entitled "Du pays tourangeau".
Fold marks inherent to postal handling.
The signed poem, 31 lines in black ink on one leaf, was included in the collection "Inattentions et sollicitudes" published in 1894 under the same title with some variants:
"Du pays tourangeau
Lai médiévite.
Du pays tourangeau
La belle châtelaine
Garnit de blanche laine
Son agile fuseau.
C'est Yette qu'on l'appelle,
Et Yette est la plus belle...
A tourné, pour se voir,
Les yeux vers son miroir :
Rajuste sa cornette,
Et se voit si proprette
Dedans ses, beaux atours,

Original drawing by Manfred Thierry Mugler, entirely in pencil on a white paper leaf.

 
With a profile of a woman, wearing a mask on her face and another one on top of the first. Numerous technical annotations around the drawing, also by Mugler: "(?) serigraphed, lycra "Wig Hat"", "Painted realistic, like her make-up", "Or All metalic GOLD NO DEFINITION LIKE A MASK OF ANTIK THEATRE".
This drawing is probably a costume project for the dancer Olga Smirnova in the ballet "McGREGOR + MUGLER" by choreographer Wayne McGregor. Fashion designer Thierry Mugler was undeniably very attached to dance, having himself joined the Rhine Opera Ballet at the...

Autograph signed alexandrine quatrain poem by the symbolist poet Adolphe Retté entitled "Les femmes au bord de la mer".
The poem, 19 lines in black ink on one leaf and dedicated to the painter Puvis de Chavannes, would appear in issue No.1 of January 1895 of the symbolist review 'L'ermitage' with some variants:
"Les femmes au bord de la mer
A Puvis de Chavannes
Calyste, Noémie et la triste Négère
Eprises des flots purs dont le chant les câline,
Sur le roc où languit une flore marine
Rêvent d'amour étrange et de grève étrangère.
Calyste est toute grave et pleure Noémie,
Ouit l'hymne fuyant de plaintives sirènes,
La brise les adule et soupire leurs...

Two original unpublished drawings by fashion designer Manfred Thierry Mugler on post-it notes in black ink, red, blue, beige, and yellow felt-tip pens and white correction fluid. Numerous mentions in English by the designer around the drawings depicting the front and back of an extravagant dress (which to our knowledge has never been made). Top corner of the first drawing backed with a small piece of tape.
The very body-hugging front of the dress is torn at the chest ("double breasted tuxedo wriped [sic]"). The blonde model wears a mask ("wolf ? Mask, lace eventually ?") similar to the famous "Mouche" sunglasses created by Mugler for his "insects" 1997...

Autograph letter addressed to his friend Georges Raillard, 8 lines in black felt-tip pen.
Fold marks inherent to being placed in an envelope.
"4 matin,
cher Georges. Tapies en rouge. On me dit que pour juillet les jeux étaient faits par l'équipe précédente... (?) Espérons pour le 1er janvier 2003... Yves." ["4 morning,
dear Georges. Tapies in red. I'm told that for July the die was cast by the previous team... (?) Let's hope for January 1st, 2003... Yves."]

Illustrated edition with 38 original engravings by Ling Chou, copper-engraved and hand-printed in sanguine, printed in 134 nominative and numbered copies on double Yu-Pan China paper.
The book, separated into two fascicles hand-sewn and covered in green moiré silk, is protected by two black lacquer plates and laces, work of the master lacquerer Tchou-Tze-Tsin.
The whole is contained in a moiré silk case closed by two ivory clasps, following the illustrator's design.
The case is partially and lightly discolored, with a light stain at the head of the first board of the case, handsome copy.
Signatures of Ling Chou, of the president and vice-president of the...

First edition of this exhibition catalogue celebrating the 50th anniversary of Tati's existence at the Union centrale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris from March 13 to April 5, 1998.
The catalogue is illustrated with 50 photographs by Xavier Lambours, Jean Larivière, Céline Larmet, Tanguy Loyzance, Toby Mac Farlan Pond, Chema Madoz, Dolorès Marat, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Sarah Moon, Xavier de Nauw, Judy Olausen, Ouka Lele, Martin Parr, Olivier Rebuffa, Liz Redeal, Paolo Roversi, Richard Schroeder, Michel Séméniako, Malick Sidibé, JeanLoup Sieff, Peggy Sirota, Eric Traoré, Donna Trope and Robert Van der Hilst.
Handsome copy.