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Félix Bonnaire

Félix Bonnaire

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  2. Spiridion
    George SAND
    Spiridion
    Félix Bonnaire|Paris 1839|13 x 21.20 cm|relié
    First edition. Printed on fine laid paper.
    Contemporary full black shagreen binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with blind-tooled compartments. Two blind-ruled frames on covers. Edges gilt. Double gilt inner fillet. Some rubbing. Generally fresh throughout with occasional light foxing, notably some leaves with scattered spots. Handsome copy.
    At the time when George Sand wrote Spiridion, one of her most important novels alongside Consuelo and Lelia, the author was considered a novelist of ideas whose every book seemed to consist of illustrating a thesis or a cause. Drawing upon the ruins of the Gothic novel for setting and plot with a supernatural atmosphere, Spiridion is an initiatory novel that presents itself as a series of embedded narratives of the spiritual and philosophical journeys of four generations of monks over the course of a century. This dark and austere work did not find its audience but was praised by Renan, Taine, Gustave Doré and Dostoevsky.

    €900
  3. Leone Leoni
    George SAND
    Leone Leoni
    Félix Bonnaire • Victor Magen|Paris 1835|12.50 x 20.70 cm|relié
    First edition. The half-title indicates: Publications de la Revue des deux mondes, where the novel had indeed appeared in pre-publication form in 1834.
    Contemporary half glazed tender green calf binding. Smooth spine with false flat raised bands decorated with blind tooling and roulettes. Cherry red glazed shagreen title label. Spine now light brown. Scattered foxing.
    Romantic work written during her stay in Italy where her liaison with Musset ended, George Sand admits to having been inspired by Manon Lescaut in Leone Leoni but by reversing the characters. The novel relates the harmful passion of a naive woman for an Italian nobleman with destructive vices. She is taken in by Don Aleo, who is in love with the young woman. This love triangle will have a tragic destiny.

    €900
  4. Œuvres complètes
    George SAND
    Œuvres complètes
    Complete Works
    Félix Bonnaire • Victor Magen • Comon • Hippolyte Souverain|Paris 1837-1841|13 x 20.50 cm, longueur totale de la série 72 cm|27 volumes reliés

    Extremely important edition, comprising a large number of works appearing here in their first edition. The complete set of these 27 volumes is rare (Clouzot). The titles present in first edition are: Mattea, Lettres d’un Voyageur, La Dernière Aldini, Les Maîtres mosaïstes, L’Uscoque, Spiridion, Les Sept Cordes de la lyre, Gabriel, Pauline, and Un hiver à Majorque.
    Illustrated with a portrait of the author at the head of the first volume.

    Bound in contemporary half brown sheep, spines uniformly faded, with four raised bands decorated with double gilt panels, double gilt fillets at head and foot, marbled-paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, a few very lightly rubbed corners, contemporary bindings. Some occasional foxing, a light dampstain affecting the final leaves of the twenty-first volume.

    A very rare complete set, in contemporary bindings.

    €12,000
  5. Gabriel
    George SAND
    Gabriel
    Félix Bonnaire|Paris 1840|14 x 23 cm|relié

    First edition, rare, published in the Complete Works of George Sand by Bonnaire. The half-title indicates volume XXIV.



    Modern half black straight-grained morocco binding with small corners signed René Aussourd at the top of the endpaper. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Title, author and date gilt. Covers preserved. Upper right corner of the front cover lacking (0.5cm). Light rubbing to boards. Very handsome copy with perfectly fresh uncut paper.
    Ex libris Paola Sanjust.
    Dialogue novel featuring a young Italian noblewoman during the Renaissance, raised as a man for succession reasons. Gabriel will be confronted with the hypocrisy of society and rebels against the abyssal difference between the rights granted to men and the oppression reserved for women. The author analyzes with irony the differences in education between girls and boys. Balzac, enthusiastic upon reading the work, did not hesitate to compare it to a Shakespeare play.

    €1,000
  6. Satires et poèmes. Iambes, Il pianto, Lazare
    Auguste BARBIER
    Satires et poèmes. Iambes, Il pianto, Lazare
    Félix Bonnaire|Paris 1837|13.50 x 21.50 cm|relié
    Edition with some parts in first edition. Autograph inscription from the author: "A mon cousin et bon ami Sicard. Auguste Barbier." ["To my cousin and good friend Sicard. Auguste Barbier."] Followed by a note: "Après la mort de M. Sicard, M. Auguste Barbier est venu à Angers et a donné ce livre à M. Selou, notaire." ["After the death of M. Sicard, M. Auguste Barbier came to Angers and gave this book to M. Selou, notary."] Iambes is augmented with 3 unpublished poems and the collection Lazare appears for the first time.
    Contemporary half green Russian leather with corners. Smooth spine decorated with a large central decorative panel, roll tool at foot. Gilt title and date. Rubbing to corners. Some pale foxing and browning.
    Very handsome copy.
    Les Iambes initially appeared in 1832 and remains the author's best-known collection, which made him immediately famous and made him the spokesman for the July 1830 Revolution, and one of the essential figures of Romanticism. "This collection ranks him among the greatest combat poets between Agrippa d'Aubigné and Victor Hugo" (Laffont-Bompiani, Dictionnaire des Oeuvres). Hugo said he found in Iambes "astonishing verses that no one else will ever write again" and Baudelaire that he was "naturally a poet and a great poet." The series of poems on social misery, Lazare, which completes the work is one of Barbier's greatest successes and makes the entire collection the most important published by the author, in an inspiration that the poet, for many critics, would never surpass again.

    NB : Cet ouvrage est disponible à la librairie sur demande sous 48 heures.
    €650
  9. Jacques
    George SAND
    Jacques
    Félix Bonnaire|Paris 1834|13.50 x 22 cm|2 tomes en 2 volumes reliés
    First edition, rare. Fictitious statement of second edition. On the half-title: Publications de la Revue des deux mondes. The review had published the novel in serial form in 1833.
    Contemporary half glazed black calf binding. Spine handsomely decorated with rococo tools. Gilt title and volume number. Some rubbing to edges. Scattered foxing, but fine copy, in a quality binding.
    Sentimental epistolary novel. This is the author's third novel and the first to bear the masculine pen name Georges Sand.

    NB: This work is available at the bookstore upon request within 48 hours.
    €900
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