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Black-and-white photograph showing Kirk Douglas smiling, facing the camera.
A handsome example.
Boldly signed by Kirk Douglas in the upper right corner of the photograph.
Provenance: from the collection of renowned autograph collector Claude Armand.
Original black and white photograph of Roger Peyrefitte.
A fine example. Photographer Rodolphe Haussaire's printed stamp to verso.
Inscribed, dated and signed by Roger Peyrefitte to the noted autograph collector Claude Armand.
Later print of an iconic 1950s photograph capturing "The look" in profile, with her right hand resting on her hip.
Signed in black felt-tip pen by Lauren Bacall.
Provenance: from the collection of renowned autograph collector Claude Armand.
Rare and fragile original French satirical leaflet dated August 1944.
Vertical and horizontal folds.
This rare document begins by stating sarcastic titles and last wishes of Adolf Hitler:
“Hitler, known as Adolphe to the Nazis and Dodofe to the Gretchens of my former Reich of Krauts, declares the following:On the verge of vomiting my soul to the devil, afflicted with dysentery accentuating the brown color of the flaps of my shirt, having my buttocks in disarray (the result of the kicks up my arse picked up on all the fronts of Europe)...”
This mock testament, written in August 1944, delivers a sarcastic commentary on the Axis powers' imminent downfall...
Printed proof with autograph inscription and autograph correction "Victor Hugo à l'Espagne" instead of "Victor Hugo et l'Espagne" of an article by Hugo written in Guernsey dated in the print "Hauteville House, 22 October 1868". Published in La Liberté (26 October 1868), with a dedication to Emile de Girardin ("à mon cher et grand ami") which does not yet appear in this preparatory broadside. Folds inherent to the elongated format of the sheet, a small tear on one letter without loss.
Proof enhanced with an autograph correction to the title and an exceptional autograph inscription signed to literary critic and later political polemicist...
Original watercolour signed with Sonia Delaunay’s initials, “S.D.” One leaf under a wooden frame with a mat, a few minor chips and small lacks to the frame. Red stamp on the verso of the leaf: "Ce projet de tissu provient de l'Atelier que dirigeait Sonia Delaunay entre 1925 et 1933. Son fils, Charles Delaunay".
Exceptional sketch of a colourful chevron dress, one of the famous "tissus simultanés" created by Sonia Delaunay. Likely to be a preparatory drawing for a dress featured in Delaunay’s portfolio Ses Peintures, Ses Objets, Ses Tissus Simultanés, Ses Modes, published on the occasion of the 1925 Exposition...
Edition regarded as the masterpiece of the painter and engraver Charles Eisen, and a counterfeit of the famed Fermiers généraux edition.
This edition is illustrated with 2 engraved frontispieces by Vidal, 2 title vignettes, 1 portrait after Hyacinthe Rigaud, along with 80 plates and 43 tailpieces. One engraving is unfortunately missing from our copy, which contains 79 engravings instead of 80.
A few minor spots, not affecting the text.
Bound in contemporary full green morocco, flat spines slightly sunned, decorated with double gilt fillets and gilt floral and typographic motifs, red morocco lettering-pieces and volume labels, gilt roll tooling at head and tail...
Autograph letter, dated and signed, addressed to his friend Pierre Louÿs while at sea, 3 numbered leaves written in violet ink.
Folds from original mailing, manuscript envelope enclosed.
Pierre Louÿs had delivered Claude Farrère’s manuscript of "La bataille"—likely to the painter Charles Fouqueray—and the author had failed to thank him: "Vous ai-je seulement remercié d'avoir vous-même porté chez F un manuscrit du poids de 2.780 grammes, à travers les XVe, VIIe et XIVe arrondissements ? A propos ? J'espère bien que ce n'est pas pour moi que vous êtes obligé d'attendre le retour de F avant de quitter Paris ?"
Claude Farrère misses his...
Entertaining fragments of handwritten notes and reflections by Sacha Guitry on the French origins of the English language, approximately 75 lines in black ink across 6 leaves.
Sacha Guitry wittily comments on the hospitality of the English language: "Aucune langue n'a été plus accueillante que la langue anglaise..." and its deep-rooted traditions, heavily influenced by French: "J'ai pu constater (on me l'avait dit mais je ne le croyais pas ! ) que, à la chambre des Lords lorsque le Roi prend la parole un huissier s'écrie : Oyez ! oyez ! Or, le mot oyez s'écrie o - y - e - z et c'est le vieux français : oyez ! du verbe ouïr - écouter." [...] "Lorsque le Roi...
Christmas greeting card illustrated with a printed drawing by Mathurin Méheut, to which he added a few handwritten words on the verso, addressed to a couple of friends:
"Aux vieux et très bons amis Dupouy ceux du tertre et de toujours, à toute leur famille. Les voeux bien sincères de MMéheut."
Marguerite Méheut, the artist’s wife, also added a note to convey her own wishes: "Aux parents, aux enfants, tous nos meilleurs voeux de bonne et heureuse année. Toutes nos amitiés à partager. Marg. Méheut."
Two small stains on the verso of the card.
Rare example of this propaganda leaflet published by the Nazi Occupier, which became the most iconic image of the Resistance. This smaller version of the famous Affiche Rouge features the poster on the recto and a paragraph on the verso castigating « l'Armée du crime contre la France » ("the Army of Crime against France"). It opens with accusations against the « rêve mondial du complot juif » ("the global dream of the Jewish conspiracy") and claims that « si des Français sabotent, pillent et tuent (...) ce sont toujours des juifs qui les inspirent » ("if Frenchmen sabotage, loot, and kill (...) it is always Jews who inspire them").
A...
Autograph letter dated and signed by Romain Rolland, 21 lines in blue ink, written from Villeneuve Schönbrunn.
Folding from postal dispatch, minor foxing.
Romain Rolland requests information necessary to properly draft the requested preface: "J'ai bien reçu les épreuves du volume, et je les ai lues. Il me manque encore les notes, qui me seront le plus nécessaires..."
He provides his Paris address on Boulevard du Montparnasse and informs his correspondent that he will be travelling for a few more days: "Je quitte Schoenbrunn, demain, et je ne saurais donner d'adresse stable, pour une quinzaine de jours." before turning to the Stendhalian task...
Autograph letter dated and signed by André Gide, 25 lines in black ink, addressed to his secretary Pierre de Massot.
Folding trace inherent to envelope insertion.
André Gide has recently failed in all his duties as a friend toward Pierre de Massot: "J'étais furieux contre moi, l'autre dimanche, de me rendre compte qu'il eût suffi peut-être d'un signe de ma part pour provoquer votre venue - et j'aurais eu grand plaisir à vous revoir ! Trop tard ! J'ai été très bas ces temps derniers..." (I was furious with myself, last Sunday, to realize that perhaps a simple sign from me would have been enough to bring about your visit - and I would have had great pleasure...
Original photograph by Lewis Carroll (Charles Ludwidge Dodgson), rectangular albumen print. The tondo portrait of the little girl gives way to a particularly visible collodion emulsion, also bearing the number added by Carroll in the negative at top left. Discreet restoration at the ends of the plate, a diagonal fold in the upper left corner.
Extraordinary photograph of Lewis Carroll's favorite sitter Xie Kitchin, one of the first portraits of his young muse, then aged 5. One of the few retaining as much of the collodion emulsion peeling away from the edges of the glass negative - a deliberate artistic choice by Carroll.
The use of the...
Printed visiting card of G. Clemenceau bearing the following autograph addition: "avec mes amicaux remerciements. GC."
A fine copy.
Autograph signed postcard, dated 8 February 1984, 8 lines in black ballpoint pen, addressed to her friend, the woman of letters Christiane Baroche, warmly thanking her for her friendship and for her laudatory reviews of her books.
Manuscript envelope addressed to Christiane Baroche included.
The postcard depicts a view of the leisure park at Cergy, in the Ile-de-France region.
"Christiane
tout ce que tu m'écris me fait très chaud au coeur. Je ne sais ce qui me touche le plus, ce que tu penses de moi comme auteur (écrivain c'est trop lourd ! ) ou ton amitié. Je t'embrasse. Annie."
Autograph card signed, dated 7 September 1984, 20 lines in blue ballpoint pen, addressed to her friend, the writer Christiane Baroche, in which she congratulates her on her latest work "Plaisirs amers" which she "devoured" and enjoyed. Annie Ernaux humorously refers to her property plans linked to the sale of her book "La Place".
"Ma chère Christiane,
j'ai reçu "Plaisirs amers" le 6, l'ai lu le soir d'une traite (comme tu sais bien parler de l'amour, c'est merveilleux ! Et de la vieillesse... Un seul regret : que ces deux-là n'aient pas fait l'amour ensemble, enfin, tu ne dis rien ! ). Le 7, jai voulu t'appeler, la belle avait quitté le nid, je...
A collection of two first editions of Italian translations, each devoted to a figure of eighteenth-century French secret diplomacy and published during their lifetimes: the Chevalier d'Éon and Prince Charles Edward Stuart, d. 1810 and 1788 respectively.
This sammelband, combining two separately published works, in fact possesses a genuine thematic unity: cross-dressing.
Printed calling card of G. Clemenceau bearing the following autograph addition: "avec tous mes remerciements. GC."
A fine copy.
Autograph letter dated June 10th (1929) and signed by Somerset Maugham addressed in French to the writer Marcel Prévost, who had just sent him an inscribed copy of his book "L'homme vierge".
27 lines in blue ink on one recto-verso page on Villa Mauresque letterhead from Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, printed stamp of Marcel Prévost's library in the upper right corner of the letter.
Mailing folds as usual.
Somerset Maugham thanks him for the inscription and praises the innovative literary qualities of his correspondent: "... je vous remercie infiniment. Je l'avais lu quand il s'appelait Amal et suis très content de le posséder maintenant en forme plus permanente. Vous...
Autograph letter signed by Thomas Mann, in French and on the headed paper of the Hôtel Regina, 2 place des Pyramides, Paris, addressed to the journalist (Claude Morgan).
10 lines in blue ink on a single leaf, a stain affecting the "14" of 14 May 1951, creases consistent with having been folded for mailing.
"14 Mai 1951
Cher monsieur,
ayant prolongé mon séjour à Paris d'un jour, je vous donnerais avec plaisir une courte interview ce soir à six heures trente. Avec l'expression de mes meilleurs sentiments. Thomas Mann."
Pirate edition from the same year as the first edition of this bible of chess strategy, published by Philidor at the age of twenty-two.
Full olive morocco binding, dentelle boards framed by a gilt roulette motif, central gilt decoration in mandorla shape composed of a quatrefoil formed by basket-handle motifs richly decorated in gilt inside the lobes, gilt edges, top spine-end slightly rubbed, corners bumped, some rare spots of foxing, binding attributable to René-François Fétil, pupil of the great Padeloup, based on numerous tools found on bindings bearing Fétil’s ticket and listed...
Exceedingly rare first edition. A sole copy in the U.S. (Newberry), out of only five listed on OCLC with the correct first edition pagination (British Library, BnF, Allard Pierson, Lucerne).
True first edition of Philidor’s chess book housed in a contemporary armorial binding of a noble chess player: Charles Theodore, Elector Palatine of the Rhine.
Later forming part of the library of famous chess player Lothar Schmid, chess grandmaster and arbiter of the 20th century, who assembled the largest and most prestigious private...
First edition (cf. Quérard II, 200. Perrod, 711).
Contemporary marbled fawn calf, spine with five raised bands gilt with gilt fillets, gilt compartments decorated with floral tools, gilt rolls to the headcaps partly rubbed, covers framed with a double blind-tooled fillet, some surface wear and losses to the boards, gilt fillet to the turn-ins, worn corners, red edges.
The sole, uncommon edition of this defence of the serfs of the Abbey of Saint-Claude in their dispute with their lord.
Christin (1744–1799) acted as their counsel before the Parlement of Besançon.
Despite his intervention (and that of Voltaire – see below), the sixteen canons of Saint-Claude...
Complete and mostly unpublished autograph manuscript by Mouloud Feraoun, dated by the author from “December 1956” to “July 1958”, for his work "Les Poèmes de Si Mohand", published in 1960 by Éditions de Minuit. Numerous erasures, corrections, deleted passages, and additions.
178 manuscript pages in blue and black ink, written in a lined Séyès notebook, with the autograph title “Si Mohand” on the upper cover; a manuscript slip tipped onto page 53 and numbered by the author; also preserved in the notebook: 5 typescript pages with autograph corrections, entitled “Voyage de Si Mohand de Maison Carrée à Michelet (Recueilli par la P. Giacobetti des P. B. à Beni-Yenni, en 1906 peu de...
Photographic postcard issued by the television weekly Télé 7 Jours, depicting Guy Lux smoking a cigarette.
A well-preserved example.
Signed by Guy Lux in blue felt-tip pen.
Original black and white photograph depicting Valéry Giscard d'Estaing posing frontally.
A fine copy. Original envelope with the letterhead of the French Presidency included.
Inscribed and signed tribute by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in blue ink.
Provenance: from the collection of the noted autograph collector Claude Armand.
Original black and white photograph, dated and inscribed by Jacques Chirac.
A handsome copy.
Autograph inscription, dated and signed by Jacques Chirac: "Avec mes amitiés J. Chirac 24 4 74."
Provenance: from the collection of the noted autograph collector Claude Armand.
Autograph postcard signed by André Malraux, sent from Port-au-Prince to their friends Minka and Karl Hans Strauss, 15 lines in blue ballpoint pen.
The postcard reproduces the painting by Haitian artist Philomé Obin entitled: "Philomé Obin recevant quelques clients étrangers".
"Chers amis, je vous remercie du beau sac qui se promène avec moi sous les palmiers... Il fait beau, la peinture est passionnante et nous vous envoyons tous nos souhaits de bonne année."
After separating from his wife Madeleine in the late 1960s, André Malraux entered into a new relationship with the writer Louise de Vilmorin and moved in with her at the Château de...
