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Original drawing in ink and ink wash. A collage in the bottom.

Complete manuscript of the Fables established under Napoleon ^I, by a prisoner whose identity is not reached us, interned in Pinerolo (Piedmont).
The set was written on two rolls of paper laid strong consist of multiple segments bonded to each other with a total length of 250 meters (800 feet) and 3 inches wide.
Indication probably later in pencil revealing the author's condition, the place and year of detention.
Beautiful writing in black ink on two lines then, the shares are rubricated a grid in red ink, we find the reverse handwritten graduation old regime foot (32.48 cm).
The only evidence is that the writer was a very...

First edition published in honor of the Olympic Committees of Egypt, France and Greece.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed and dated Angelo Bolanaki to "his dear friends ... Feuillade"
Iconography.
Two small spots on flat minor.

First edition of the first book of the author for which it was not drawn large papers.
Binding Editor half canvas fir, almond cardboard dishes cleared first flat with two small snags restored, laces connecting the dishes are missing.
Dated and signed autograph dedication from the author to actor and director Pierre Magnier.
Preface by Alfred Capus.
Book illustrated with 25 drawings by the author.
A few small bites.
Very rare copy of the first book of the author enriched sending an autograph signed by the author to a silent film pioneer.

BLANCHOT Maurice
Le Mythe d'Ulysse [The Ulysses Myth] Unpublished typescript N. d. [circa 1936], 49 leaves 210 x 265 mm (8 1/4 x 10 7/16 ”), loose leaves
Unique complete document comprising 49 A4 leaves, of which 47 mimeographed and 2 typescript (being 1 title page and 48 leaves numbered from 1 to 47, including one page numbered 9 bis. Pages 19 and 46 typescript), entitled: Le Mythe d'Ulysse [The Ulysses Myth] with very occasional manuscript corrections. A faint mark to upper margin of title and traces of a paper clip to head, a few marginal folds.
An exceptional typescript of the first fiction work by Maurice Blanchot, a veritable...

Original typescript of 50 leaves, comprising Blanchot’s collected writings on Restif de la Bretonne, which appeared successively in Critique n°22 in March 1948, under the title “Un livre vivant [A Living Book] ”, and Les Cahiers de la Pléiade n°4 in June 1948, under the title “Les plaisirs de la vertu [The Pleasures of Virtue] ”, and finally as a preface to Restif de la Bretonne’s “Sara”, published by Stock in 1949. This important collection is enriched with four manuscript leaves written recto and verso of the first outline, notes, and final typescript of “Plaisirs de la vertu”, annotated by the publisher. The first leaf has a...

BLANCHOT Maurice
L'Idylle [The Idyl] First unpublished version. Complete autograph manuscript N. d. [1936], 20 pages in-8: 135 x 210 mm (5 5/16 x 8 1/4 ”)
The first unpublished version of the complete autograph manuscript, written in 1936.
Very closely written with numerous erasures, corrections and additions.
“L'Idylle, a youthful work of Maurice Blanchot's published for the first time in 1947 and re-published in 1951 alongside Dernier Mot in a little volume titled Le Ressassement éternel was often called ‘an insoluble enigma'...the circumstances of its writing and...

Manuscrit recto-verso complet, à l’écriture très dense, comportant de nombreuses ratures, corrections et ajouts. Tapuscrit complet, présentant des ratures et quelques corrections autographes.
 C’est Gaston Gallimard et Dionys Mascolo qui soufflent à Maurice Blanchot, dès le début de l’année 1943, l’idée de la publication en volume d’une sélection de ses chroniques littéraires qui, sous le titre de Faux Pas, deviendra son premier recueil critique.
Le jeune auteur sélectionne alors cinquante-quatre de ses articles parus les années précédentes dans Le Journal des Débats, mais aussi dans L’Insurgé et La Revue française des idées et des œuvres, et...

Original manuscript and typescript of article to be published in Spain free, unique number of the News Review led by Georges Bataille and Blanchot, which contributed Camus, Cassou, Battle, Grenier, Garcia Lorca, Hemingway and Quero Morales.
Manuscript, complete with the exception of the last lines, with many erasures, corrections and underlining in ink.

Text marking the major policy reversal Maurice Blanchot who signs a committed text away from its anti-republican convictions prewar.

Co-director of the magazine founded by his friend Georges Bataille, Blanchot and his political fate of silence of the immediate post-war "j ['was]...

Edition called the Farmers General, taking for text editions from 1685 and 1696, adding tales of Autreau and Vergier, given in the 1718 edition.
The edition was printed in 2000 copies on laid Holland paper, ours, one of the few copies in full morocco contemporary.
The book is illustrated with 80 figures before the letter Eisen performed by the most famous writers of the time (Aliamet, Baquoy, Choffard, Delafosse, Flipart, Le Mire, Leveau, Longueuil and Worker), two portraits frontispiece (one of La Fontaine by Hyacinthe Rigaud and second by Eisen Vispré engraved by Ficquet) and six vignettes Choffard, including two under two inset top of each volume, and two won...

Album of 14 war photographs gathered by a first world war german soldier.

Album containing 14 photographs, with hand-written captions in german, under protective papers, depicting trench scenes, hangings, crashed planes, destroyed villages, cadavers and skeletons.
Album made of embroidered and printed cloth, sealed with a string and two wooden beads.
4 additional postcards and a photograph of a plane.

Autograph manuscript of the author of 2 ½ pages 4to published in the issue dated March 2, 1944 of the Journal of Debates. Complete manuscript writing very dense, with many erasures, corrections and additions. Literary Chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of The Wyvern Marcel Ayme full typescript is attached.
"The books of Marcel Ayme have this happiness to make coarse the most subtle criticism explanations," says Blanchot in the introduction. Yet this column tribute to the poetic and light literature of the storyteller, none the less an analysis of "magical realism" own writing by Marcel Ayme.
Between April 1941 and August 1944, Maurice...

Autograph manuscript of the author of 5 pages 8vo published in the issue dated 20 January 1943 of the Journal of Debates. Complete manuscript writing very dense, with many erasures, corrections and additions. Full typescript is attached.
This article is regularly cited as a result of the incipit against the burning "fire libraries remains the misfortune that announces the end of the mind. Burning a book, write, are two acts between which culture entered its oscillations contrary. "It is indeed a position against a strong identifiers of Nazism, which clearly marks the failover Blanchot.
But beyond these historical considerations, this chronic "free" is also a...

Autograph manuscript of the author of 2 ½ pages 8vo published in the issue dated 30 December 1943 of the Journal of Debates. Complete manuscript writing very dense, with many erasures, corrections and additions.
Typescript is complete seal.
Blanchot finds the gap between the ruined world "which is the truth of the world" that literature is forced to confront and personality of writers who do not seem to live this tragedy. "Feeling too obvious that the author [...] is happy to write, it is fortunate for him," contrast with characters who "through the desolation of events [...] hit some something deeper that they can no...

Autograph manuscript of the author of 2 and a half pages in-8 published in the issue dated 6 January 1944 the Journal of Debates.
Complete manuscript writing very dense, with many erasures, corrections and additions.
Complete typescript with a few deletions and additions autograph of the author is attached.
Inspired by the flowers of Tarbes Jean Paulhan, this short article is for Blanchot, the opportunity to reflect on the position and work of criticism. Well beyond literary analysis of a work, this column is probably a key to the theoretical work of Blanchot and wider confrontation with his creation.
The...

(JOYCE James) BLANCHOT Maurice. Le premier roman de Joyce. Complete autograph manuscript and complete typescript
N. n. [Journal des débats], n. p. [Paris] n. d. [1944], 1 leave in-8 (21 x 13,4 cm)
and ½ leave in-8 (10,4 x 13,4 cm) and 2 leaves in-4 (26,8 x 20,9 cm) numbered
Author’s autograph manuscript, two and a half pages, 8vo, published in the Journal des Débats on 18 May 1944.
Full manuscript, written both sides, densely spaced, with a number of erasures, corrections and additions.
With the complete typescript.
A review on the occasion of the republication of Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a...

Autograph manuscript of the author of 5 pages 8vo published in the issue dated 27 January 1943 of the Journal of Debates. Complete manuscript writing very dense, with many erasures, corrections and additions. Chronic literary published on the occasion of the publication by Gallimard of the book "The faithful shepherd" Alexander Vialatte and also referring to the works of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Typescript is complete seal.
At the heart of the Occupation Blanchot focuses on two accounts of the French debacle of 1940 and the absurdity of the world it reveals. But the madness in which immerses the autobiographical character Vialatte is not for Blanchot, equivalent to that of war:

Autograph manuscript of the author of four and a half pages 8vo published in the issue dated August 4, 1943 of the Journal of Debates.
Complete manuscript writing very dense, with many erasures, corrections and additions.
Typescript is complete seal.
In this critical review of the problem of unbelief in the sixteenth century, the religion of Rabelais by Lucien Febvre, Blanchot takes us on an amazing journey of the humanist Renaissance. lacking the anachronistic interpretation of historians "who in modern rethinking what can be understood only by abandoning our habits of thought," the Renaissance appears as an enigmatic universe where atheistic...