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  3. The virginians - A tale of the last century
    William Makepeace THACKERAY
    The virginians - A tale of the last century
    Bradbury & Evans|London 1858-1859|13.50 x 22 cm|2 volumes reliés
    First edition with all the features of the first printing: "actresses" line 33 of page 207 of the first volume, chapters 47 and 48 erroneously printed as 48 and 49 in the first volume.
    Full grey paper boards, smooth spines decorated with blind fillets and slightly discolored, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
    Work illustrated by William Makepeace Thackeray, each volume with a frontispiece, a title vignette, 22 plates hors-texte as well as numerous in-text drawings.
    Occasional foxing, for each of the 48 plates hors-texte, a placement indication in relation to the text was probably made by the binder so as not to mistake the order of the engravings.
    Handsome copy.


    €600
  4. The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner
    Frederick RHEAD, THE BROTHERS LOUIS
    The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner
    Harper & Brothers|New York 1900|15.50 x 23.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
    Edition adorned with numerous illustrations (nearly a hundred) in black in-text and full-page by the brothers Louis and Frederick Rhead.
    The work is also illustrated with a color frontispiece.
    Publisher's binding in full black cloth, smooth spine, gilt publisher's imprint at foot of spine, front cover decorated with a large color vignette depicting Robinson hunting with rifle in hand, endpapers and pastedowns of cream paper.
    Light foxing to endpapers, otherwise handsome copy.





    €120
  8. La guerre de sécession 1861-1865
    Ernest GRASSET
    La guerre de sécession 1861-1865
    Librairie militaire de L. Baudoin et cie|Paris 1886-1887|11.50 x 18.50 cm|2 volumes brochés
    First edition complete in two volumes.
    A small lack to the upper right corner of the first cover of the first volume which has another to the upper right corner of the second cover, small lacks to the foot of the spines, some foxing affecting mainly the edges.
    Autograph inscription signed by Ernest Grasset, on the half-title page of the first volume, to the inspector general of Ponts et Chaussées monsieur Thouvenot.
    Copy complete with the second volume entitled "Les hommes" which is almost always missing.

    €350
  10. L'homme de Buridan
    Saul BELLOW, Michel DEON (trans.)
    L'homme de Buridan
    Plon|Paris 1954|12 x 19 cm|relié
    First edition in French established by Michel Déon, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
    Half red shagreen binding, smooth spine, pebbled paper boards, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved and mounted.
    Autograph inscription signed by Michel Déon to Pierre Emmanuel: "... ce roman d'une Amérique qu'il connait bien et que je connais grâce à lui..." ("... this novel of an America he knows well and which I know thanks to him...")
    €150
  11. Histoire des guerres civiles des espagnols dans les Indes, suivi de Suite des guerres civiles des espagnols dans le Peru
    GARCILASO DE LA VEGA
    Histoire des guerres civiles des espagnols dans les Indes, suivi de Suite des guerres civiles des espagnols dans le Peru
    Chez Simeon Piget|à Paris 1658|17 x 23.50 cm|2 tomes reliés en un volume
    Second French edition bringing together these two texts by Garcilaso de la Vega first published in Spanish in 1650. Frontispiece depicting in the foreground the landing of Spanish troops on American territory and in the background the indigenous population besieged in the heart of a burning city. In the lower section, a banner bears the inscription "Quid non mortalia pectora cogis auri sacra fames", taken from Virgil's Aeneid and translated by Molière as "O execrable hunger for gold, to what lengths do you not force men's hearts to go". Work decorated with headpieces and historiated initials.
    Contemporary full vellum binding, smooth spine decorated at head with a pen-and-ink title almost faded. One corner slightly bumped, title page skillfully restored at inner margin, pale dampstain to lower margin on final gatherings.
    Bookplate of the Nordkirchen family pasted on front pastedown. Manuscript ownership inscription on title page with initials "E. H. L.".
    Natural son of a conquistador and an Inca princess, raised in two different cultures, Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616) offers a unique vision of Inca civilization by rejecting a Euro-centric view. While in his Royal Commentary, first published in France in 1633, de la Vega traced the history of the Inca rulers, he here proposes an account of the conflicts that animated the Spanish colonists after their arrival in Peru. His aim is to convey the upheaval caused by these internecine wars, both for the indigenous people and for the Spanish. In his address to the reader, de la Vega explains that the Inca rulers had succeeded in founding an empire where "Moral, Political, & Military Virtues" reigned; the arrival of the colonists and the execution of Atahualpa - the last independent emperor - disrupts the established order and is seen as the expression of "Ambition" and "Avarice" of these "new Hosts". De la Vega presents these events in the form of a true epic, seeking to show the reader "the various effects in this History, wonderfully entertaining, & where the Author endeavors to make the principal ones among those who were the true Actors play their role on this Stage". A continuation of his first major work on the History of the Incas, Kings of Peru, the History of the Civil Wars of the Spanish in the Indies offers the reader a vast panorama of Peruvian history in the few years following the conquest.
    Handsome copy of this work of major importance in the historiography of the Spanish conquest of Peru.
    €4,500
  22. Photographie dédicacée de Betty Grable, la première pin-up de l'histoire du music-hall
    Betty GRABLE
    Photographie dédicacée de Betty Grable, la première pin-up de l'histoire du music-hall
    S. n.|s. l. s. d. [circa 1950]|12.50 x 18 cm|une feuille
    Reproduction of a photographic portrait showing Betty Grable, standing, in pin-up attire, hands crossed behind her neck, her right leg folded over the left.
    Autograph inscription signed by Betty Grable: "Hello, Eileen, greetings from Betty."
    The first pin-up girl in history, Betty Grable was one of the great stars of musical comedies, especially those created by Fox, from before and after the war to the point of accompanying American G.I.s during the Second World War, her legs being insured by Lloyd's for one million dollars. The arrival, in the early 1950s, of Marilyn Monroe, Fox's new star, would eclipse the aura that Betty Grable had with the American public.
    €120
  24. Orealla
    Roy HEATH
    Orealla
    Seuil|Paris 1984|14.50 x 22.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
    First edition.
    Publisher's full black paper boards, smooth spine, complete with its illustrated dust jacket.
    Precious signed autograph inscription from Roy Heath to writer James Baldwin: "For James Baldwin whose work I admire greatly. Roy Health."
    James Baldwin's writings describe personal dilemmas questioning the difficult social and psychological pressures that hinder not only the integration of Black people, but also gay or bisexual men in 20th century Western societies, particularly in the United States.
    €800
  27. Lettre autographe signée Elvire et adressée à ses amis Alice et Carlo Rim à propos de l'état de santé précaire de son ami et longtemps amant Louis Verneuil alors en exil aux Etats-Unis : "Il fait tout ce qu'il peut pour me faire rester ici, moi je fais tout ce que je peux pour le ramener dans notre pays où nous avons ensemble laissé au théâtre toute notre jeunesse."
    Elvire POPESCO
    Lettre autographe signée Elvire et adressée à ses amis Alice et Carlo Rim à propos de l'état de santé précaire de son ami et longtemps amant Louis Verneuil alors en exil aux Etats-Unis : "Il fait tout ce qu'il peut pour me faire rester ici, moi je fais tout ce que je peux pour le ramener dans notre pays où nous avons ensemble laissé au théâtre toute notre jeunesse."
    S. n.|Los Angeles s. d. [1943]|21.50 x 28 cm|une feuille recto-verso
    Moving autograph letter signed (30 lines in blue ink from the Californian exile of Louis Verneuil, whose muse Elvire Popesco had become) Elvire, addressed to her friends Rim.
    In this letter, entirely imbued with nostalgia linked to their shared youth and loves, Elvire Popesco expresses concern about the health condition of Louis Verneuil, whose muse she had become through their collaboration:
    : "Chez Mr Louis Verneuil
    474 North Faring Road
    Holmby Hills
    Los Angeles
    California.
    Mes chéris, je suis venue voir Louis Verneuil qui a été très gravement malade, un caillot dans l'aorte, et malgré une amélioration, les docteurs ne sont pas certains d'une guérison complète. Nous repassons ensemble des souvenirs de tant d'années de travail. Il fait tout ce qu'il peut pour me faire rester ici, moi je fais tout ce que je peux pour le ramener dans notre pays où nous avons ensemble laissé au théâtre toute notre jeunesse. Hélas, il ne peut pas supporter les voyages, tout au moins pour le moment. Je compte rentrer entre le 15 et fin avril et en attendant je vous embrasse de tout mon coeur. Elvire."     ["My darlings, I have come to see Louis Verneuil who has been very seriously ill, a clot in the aorta, and despite some improvement, the doctors are not certain of a complete recovery. We go over together memories of so many years of work. He is doing everything he can to make me stay here, while I am doing everything I can to bring him back to our country where together we left all our youth in the theatre. Alas, he cannot bear to travel, at least for the moment. I plan to return between the 15th and the end of April and in the meantime I embrace you with all my heart. Elvire."]
    Fold inherent to the mailing.
    Carlo Rim was a Provençal writer, author of "Ma belle Marseille", a caricaturist, a filmmaker and was notably the friend of Fernandel, Raimu and Marcel Pagnol but also of Max Jacob and André Salmon whom he met in Sanary.
    €400
  28. Réception par le Sénat de l'aviateur américain Charles Lindbergh et de son excellence M. Myron T. Herrick, amabassadeur des Etats-Unis à Paris (27 mai 1927)
    (Charles LINDBERGH) COLLECTIF
    Réception par le Sénat de l'aviateur américain Charles Lindbergh et de son excellence M. Myron T. Herrick, amabassadeur des Etats-Unis à Paris (27 mai 1927)
    Groupe sénatorial de l'aviation|Paris 1927|16.50 x 24 cm|agrafé
    First edition illustrated with photographs.
    Two small dampstains to upper right corners of boards.
    Rare pamphlet printed in honor of Charles Lindbergh's feat of crossing the North Atlantic non-stop and solo: taking off from New York on May 20, 1927, Charles Lindbergh landed 33 hours later at Le Bourget where he was triumphantly welcomed.
    €400
  29. Photographie originale - Christopher Street Liberation Day March, New York - Master and Slave
    Jean-Pierre LAFFONT
    Photographie originale - Christopher Street Liberation Day March, New York - Master and Slave
    Paris 1970|19.50 x 30 cm|une photographie

    "On June 28, 1970, I attended the first New York Gay Pride March. The date marks the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots, which launched the LGBTQ+ liberation movement in the U.S. We left from Christopher Street, a gay cultural mecca in Greenwich Village, and walked up 6th Avenue to Central Park. To end the day, a kissing contest was held in the middle of the park! It was a great moment of joy, love and freedom. This couple, who kissed for hours under an umbrella, obviously didn't care about photographers" (Interview with Clément Thierry, 2021)

    Original photo from Christopher Street Liberation Day March, New York - "Master and Slave"
    Original black and white silver print ; with the stamp of Jean-Pierre Laffont for the Gamma agency, and a lengthy mimeographed caption for the French press.
    Original prints from this event are extremely rare, as museums and galleries only have modern reprints.
    A touching and vivid account of the first Gay Pride March, in the aftermath of the Stonewall riots that became the cradle of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement and subsequent gay liberation movements around the world.
    On June 28, 1969, police raided Stonewall, a mafia-owned dance bar in Greenwich Village catering primarily to gay and transgender people. The city had revoked the liquor licenses of gay bars and police officers regularly hassled its customers because of their sexual orientation. That night at Stonewall was one too many: cornered by Village residents and customers, the police were forced to retreat inside the bar and the riot lasted seven days. On June 6, 2019, nearly 50 years after the historic uprising, the New York Police Department has apologized for its role in the events.
    Now considered to be the origin of the gay liberation movement, Stonewall led to the creation of some of the first gay rights activist organizations, such as the Gay Liberation Front and Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (better known as STAR and founded by two of the most prominent transgender activists: Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera). The uprising called for a new kind of movement. With this purpose, the Christopher Street Liberation Day March was held on June 28, 1970, one year to the day after Stonewall. Only a few brave groups first gathered at Sheridan Square (Greenwich village), before other people started joining in on their way to Sheep Meadow in Central Park, finally attracting more than 10,000 demonstrators. Annual Pride events were subsequently held in the summer in NYC and other major U.S. cities before reaching other continents after a few years, with hundreds of millions of people gathering for what has become one of the most prominent human rights demonstrations around the world.
    This beautiful picture shows a couple of young women sitting in the grass and wearing two matching t-shirts "Master" and "Slave". One is holding a flyer announcing the Harmonyville Music Festival, a major Woodstock-inspired event planned for August 1970 which never took place.

    Jean-Pierre Laffont first arrived in the U.S. in 1965 and began his career as a photojournalist in New York for Status Magazine and then as U.S. correspondent for the French agency Reporters Associés. He became Senior Foreign Correspondent for Gamma Press and in 1969 opened the Gamma Presse Images office in the U.S with his wife Eliane. Laffont covered major American historical events- the Civil Rights movement and social protests against racial discrimination, the Vietnam War, demonstrations for Peace, women's rights, and gay liberation, etc. Initially intended for the press, his artworks have now reached iconic status and are featured in international photographic collections.
    €1,500
  30. Photographie originale - Christopher Street Liberation Day March, New York - "Perverts' Union for Gay Liberation"
    Jean-Pierre LAFFONT
    Photographie originale - Christopher Street Liberation Day March, New York - "Perverts' Union for Gay Liberation"
    Paris 1970|19.50 x 30 cm|une photographie

    "On June 28, 1970, I attended the first New York Gay Pride March. The date marks the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots, which launched the LGBTQ+ liberation movement in the U.S. We left from Christopher Street, a gay cultural mecca in Greenwich Village, and walked up 6th Avenue to Central Park. To end the day, a kissing contest was held in the middle of the park! It was a great moment of joy, love and freedom. This couple, who kissed for hours under an umbrella, obviously didn't care about photographers" (Interview with Clément Thierry, 2021)

    Original photo from Christopher Street Liberation Day March, New York - "Perverts' Union for Gay Liberation"
    Original black and white silver print ; with the stamp of Jean-Pierre Laffont for the Gamma agency, and a lengthy mimeographed caption for the French press.
    Original prints from this event are extremely rare, as museums and galleries only have modern reprints.
    A touching and vivid account of the first Gay Pride March, in the aftermath of the Stonewall riots that became the cradle of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement and subsequent gay liberation movements around the world.
    On June 28, 1969, police raided Stonewall, a mafia-owned dance bar in Greenwich Village catering primarily to gay and transgender people. The city had revoked the liquor licenses of gay bars and police officers regularly hassled its customers because of their sexual orientation. That night at Stonewall was one too many: cornered by Village residents and customers, the police were forced to retreat inside the bar and the riot lasted seven days. On June 6, 2019, nearly 50 years after the historic uprising, the New York Police Department has apologized for its role in the events.
    Now considered to be the origin of the gay liberation movement, Stonewall led to the creation of some of the first gay rights activist organizations, such as the Gay Liberation Front and Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (better known as STAR and founded by two of the most prominent transgender activists: Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera). The uprising called for a new kind of movement. With this purpose, the Christopher Street Liberation Day March was held on June 28, 1970, one year to the day after Stonewall. Only a few brave groups first gathered at Sheridan Square (Greenwich village), before other people started joining in on their way to Sheep Meadow in Central Park, finally attracting more than 10,000 demonstrators. Annual Pride events were subsequently held in the summer in NYC and other major U.S. cities before reaching other continents after a few years, with hundreds of millions of people gathering for what has become one of the most prominent human rights demonstrations around the world.
    This fine photograph shows three young women holding a sign "Perverts' Union for Gay Liberation" and another that reads "Gay Pride".
    Jean-Pierre Laffont first arrived in the U.S. in 1965 and began his career as a photojournalist in New York for Status Magazine and then as U.S. correspondent for the French agency Reporters Associés. He became Senior Foreign Correspondent for Gamma Press and in 1969 opened the Gamma Presse Images office in the U.S with his wife Eliane. Laffont covered major American historical events- the Civil Rights movement and social protests against racial discrimination, the Vietnam War, demonstrations for Peace, women's rights, and gay liberation, etc. Initially intended for the press, his artworks have now reached iconic status and are featured in international photographic collections.
    €1,200
  31. Photographie originale - Christopher Street Liberation Day March, New York - Militant en fauteuil roulant
    Jean-Pierre LAFFONT
    Photographie originale - Christopher Street Liberation Day March, New York - Militant en fauteuil roulant
    Paris 1970|19.50 x 30 cm|une photographie

    "On June 28, 1970, I attended the first New York Gay Pride March. The date marks the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots, which launched the LGBTQ+ liberation movement in the U.S. We left from Christopher Street, a gay cultural mecca in Greenwich Village, and walked up 6th Avenue to Central Park. To end the day, a kissing contest was held in the middle of the park! It was a great moment of joy, love and freedom. This couple, who kissed for hours under an umbrella, obviously didn't care about photographers" (Interview with Clément Thierry, 2021)

    Original photo from Christopher Street Liberation Day March, New York - "Activist in a Wheelchair"
    Original black and white silver print ; with the stamp of Jean-Pierre Laffont for the Gamma agency, and a lengthy mimeographed caption for the French press.
    Original prints from this event are extremely rare, as museums and galleries only have modern reprints.
    A touching and vivid account of the first Gay Pride March, in the aftermath of the Stonewall riots that became the cradle of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement and subsequent gay liberation movements around the world.
    On June 28, 1969, police raided Stonewall, a mafia-owned dance bar in Greenwich Village catering primarily to gay and transgender people. The city had revoked the liquor licenses of gay bars and police officers regularly hassled its customers because of their sexual orientation. That night at Stonewall was one too many: cornered by Village residents and customers, the police were forced to retreat inside the bar and the riot lasted seven days. On June 6, 2019, nearly 50 years after the historic uprising, the New York Police Department has apologized for its role in the events.
    Now considered to be the origin of the gay liberation movement, Stonewall led to the creation of some of the first gay rights activist organizations, such as the Gay Liberation Front and Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (better known as STAR and founded by two of the most prominent transgender activists: Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera). The uprising called for a new kind of movement. With this purpose, the Christopher Street Liberation Day March was held on June 28, 1970, one year to the day after Stonewall. Only a few brave groups first gathered at Sheridan Square (Greenwich village), before other people started joining in on their way to Sheep Meadow in Central Park, finally attracting more than 10,000 demonstrators. Annual Pride events were subsequently held in the summer in NYC and other major U.S. cities before reaching other continents after a few years, with hundreds of millions of people gathering for what has become one of the most prominent human rights demonstrations around the world.
    This fine picture shows a man in a wheelchair with a sign that reads "Gay Pride" in the middle of the crowd.
    Jean-Pierre Laffont first arrived in the U.S. in 1965 and began his career as a photojournalist in New York for Status Magazine and then as U.S. correspondent for the French agency Reporters Associés. He became Senior Foreign Correspondent for Gamma Press and in 1969 opened the Gamma Presse Images office in the U.S with his wife Eliane. Laffont covered major American historical events- the Civil Rights movement and social protests against racial discrimination, the Vietnam War, demonstrations for Peace, women's rights, and gay liberation, etc. Initially intended for the press, his artworks have now reached iconic status and are featured in international photographic collections.
    €1,200
  32. Photographie originale signée - Christopher Street Liberation Day March, New York - "Gay People This Is Your Church"
    Jean-Pierre LAFFONT
    Photographie originale signée - Christopher Street Liberation Day March, New York - "Gay People This Is Your Church"
    Paris 1970|19.50 x 30 cm|une photographie

    "On June 28, 1970, I attended the first New York Gay Pride March. The date marks the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots, which launched the LGBTQ+ liberation movement in the U.S. We left from Christopher Street, a gay cultural mecca in Greenwich Village, and walked up 6th Avenue to Central Park. To end the day, a kissing contest was held in the middle of the park! It was a great moment of joy, love and freedom. This couple, who kissed for hours under an umbrella, obviously didn't care about photographers" (Interview with Clément Thierry, 2021)


    Original black and white silver print ; with the stamp of Jean-Pierre Laffont for the Gamma agency, and a lengthy mimeographed caption for the French press.
    Original prints from this event are extremely rare, as museums and galleries only have modern reprints.
    A touching and vivid account of the first Gay Pride March, in the aftermath of the Stonewall riots that became the cradle of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement and subsequent gay liberation movements around the world.
    On June 28, 1969, police raided Stonewall, a mafia-owned dance bar in Greenwich Village catering primarily to gay and transgender people. The city had revoked the liquor licenses of gay bars and police officers regularly hassled its customers because of their sexual orientation. That night at Stonewall was one too many: cornered by Village residents and customers, the police were forced to retreat inside the bar and the riot lasted seven days. On June 6, 2019, nearly 50 years after the historic uprising, the New York Police Department has apologized for its role in the events.
    Now considered to be the origin of the gay liberation movement, Stonewall led to the creation of some of the first gay rights activist organizations, such as the Gay Liberation Front and Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (better known as STAR and founded by two of the most prominent transgender activists: Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera). The uprising called for a new kind of movement. With this purpose, the Christopher Street Liberation Day March was held on June 28, 1970, one year to the day after Stonewall. Only a few brave groups first gathered at Sheridan Square (Greenwich village), before other people started joining in on their way to Sheep Meadow in Central Park, finally attracting more than 10,000 demonstrators. Annual Pride events were subsequently held in the summer in NYC and other major U.S. cities before reaching other continents after a few years, with hundreds of millions of people gathering for what has become one of the most prominent human rights demonstrations around the world.
    Wonderful full-length portrait of Rev. Robert Clement, wearing his cassock and proudly holding a sign that reads "Gay people this is your church". In 1970, he founded the Church of the Beloved Disciple, the first “gay church” in New York City, not only welcoming gay parishioners, but also the first to include openly gay pastors. Rev. Clement created and celebrated the first "Holy Unions" – same-sex religious marriage ceremonies.
    Jean-Pierre Laffont first arrived in the U.S. in 1965 and began his career as a photojournalist in New York for Status Magazine and then as U.S. correspondent for the French agency Reporters Associés. He became Senior Foreign Correspondent for Gamma Press and in 1969 opened the Gamma Presse Images office in the U.S with his wife Eliane. Laffont covered major American historical events- the Civil Rights movement and social protests against racial discrimination, the Vietnam War, demonstrations for Peace, women's rights, and gay liberation, etc. Initially intended for the press, his artworks have now reached iconic status and are featured in international photographic collections.
    €1,800
  33. Photographie originale signée - Christopher Street Liberation Day March, New York - Baiser sous un parapluie
    Jean-Pierre LAFFONT
    Photographie originale signée - Christopher Street Liberation Day March, New York - Baiser sous un parapluie
    Paris 1970|30 x 19.50 cm|une photographie

    "On June 28, 1970, I attended the first New York Gay Pride March. The date marks the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots, which launched the LGBTQ+ liberation movement in the U.S. We left from Christopher Street, a gay cultural mecca in Greenwich Village, and walked up 6th Avenue to Central Park. To end the day, a kissing contest was held in the middle of the park! It was a great moment of joy, love and freedom. This couple, who kissed for hours under an umbrella, obviously didn't care about photographers" (Interview with Clément Thierry, 2021)

    Original photo from Christopher Street Liberation Day March, New York - "Kiss under an umbrella"
    Original black and white silver print ; with the stamp of Jean-Pierre Laffont for the Gamma agency, and a lengthy mimeographed caption for the French press.
    Original prints from this event are extremely rare, as museums and galleries only have modern reprints.
    A touching and vivid account of the first Gay Pride March, in the aftermath of the Stonewall riots that became the cradle of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement and subsequent gay liberation movements around the world.
    On June 28, 1969, police raided Stonewall, a mafia-owned dance bar in Greenwich Village catering primarily to gay and transgender people. The city had revoked the liquor licenses of gay bars and police officers regularly hassled its customers because of their sexual orientation. That night at Stonewall was one too many: cornered by Village residents and customers, the police were forced to retreat inside the bar and the riot lasted seven days. On June 6, 2019, nearly 50 years after the historic uprising, the New York Police Department has apologized for its role in the events.
    Now considered to be the origin of the gay liberation movement, Stonewall led to the creation of some of the first gay rights activist organizations, such as the Gay Liberation Front and Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (better known as STAR and founded by two of the most prominent transgender activists: Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera). The uprising called for a new kind of movement. With this purpose, the Christopher Street Liberation Day March was held on June 28, 1970, one year to the day after Stonewall. Only a few brave groups first gathered at Sheridan Square (Greenwich village), before other people started joining in on their way to Sheep Meadow in Central Park, finally attracting more than 10,000 demonstrators. Annual Pride events were subsequently held in the summer in NYC and other major U.S. cities before reaching other continents after a few years, with hundreds of millions of people gathering for what has become one of the most prominent human rights demonstrations around the world.
    Fine photograph showing a couple lying in the grass, their faces under a large umbrella; one of the lovers is giving the middle finger to the camera.

    Jean-Pierre Laffont first arrived in the U.S. in 1965 and began his career as a photojournalist in New York for Status Magazine and then as U.S. correspondent for the French agency Reporters Associés. He became Senior Foreign Correspondent for Gamma Press and in 1969 opened the Gamma Presse Images office in the U.S with his wife Eliane. Laffont covered major American historical events- the Civil Rights movement and social protests against racial discrimination, the Vietnam War, demonstrations for Peace, women's rights, and gay liberation, etc. Initially intended for the press, his artworks have now reached iconic status and are featured in international photographic collections.
    €1,800
  34. The landmark work of the "Harlem Renaissance" in a deluxe edition
    Le paradis des nègres
    Carl VAN VECHTEN, Paul MORAND (pref.)
    Le paradis des nègres
    [Nigger Heaven]
    Editions Kra|Paris 1927|20 x 21 cm|broché
    First edition of the French translation, one of 10 numbered copies on Lafuma wove paper, ours unnumbered, printed on deluxe paper.
    A rare and handsome copy, uncut, of one of the landmark works of the literary and poetic movement "Harlem Renaissance," which strove for the recognition of African-American culture.
    Controversial since its publication owing to its title, the novel recounts the adventures of a young couple from Harlem, in the cabarets and soirées of the New York neighborhood. Van Vechten tirelessly supported African-American artists and writers, even after the decline of the movement that had drawn so many white intellectuals to Harlem.
    €1,800
  36. Lettre autographe datée et signée adressée à sa traductrice en français Alice Raillard
    Antonio TORRES
    Lettre autographe datée et signée adressée à sa traductrice en français Alice Raillard
    Rio de Janeiro 7 juillet 1994|21 x 28 cm|une feuille + une enveloppe
    Handwritten letter dated and signed, entirely written in Brazilian Portuguese, from writer Antonio Torres addressed to the translator of his works into French Alice Raillard from Rio, 17 lines in black ink.
    Fold marks inherent to mailing, envelope included.
    A press clipping included by Antonio Torres and attached with a paper clip which has left a shadow on the handwritten letter.


    €150
  38. Carte postale autographe signée adressée à sa traductrice en français Alice Raillard
    Antonio TORRES
    Carte postale autographe signée adressée à sa traductrice en français Alice Raillard
    Coimbra s. d. [circa 1995]|14.50 x 10.50 cm|une carte postale
    Autograph postcard dated and signed with 8 lines, entirely written in Brazilian Portuguese, by the writer Antonio Torres addressed to the translator of his works into French Alice Raillard from Brazil.
    "14.7.99
    Oi, Alice. Daqui terra de Iracema, te mando beizos. Saudades. Antonio Torres. E o Henri ? Està d ? "     ["14.7.99
    Hi, Alice. From here, land of Iracema, I send you kisses. Miss you. Antonio Torres. And Henri? Is he okay?"]


    €80
  39. Lettre autographe signée Harry adressé à son amie Claude Arthaud lui déclamant tout son désespoir d'être séparé d'elle
    Harry MATHEWS
    Lettre autographe signée Harry adressé à son amie Claude Arthaud lui déclamant tout son désespoir d'être séparé d'elle
    S. n.|San Francisco 25 avril 1974|11 x 17 cm|une feuille + une enveloppe
    Autograph letter signed by Harry Mathews addressed to his love Claude Arthaud (14 lines in black ink) from the Huntington Hotel in San Francisco, envelope included.
    Two small tears to the right margin of the letter affecting one word and one dash.
    In this tender letter imbued with the melancholic sadness of separated hearts, Harry Mathews yearns to reunite with his love: "Tout se passe bien : tout se passe, tout passe. Mais au passage il ne reste peu de temps pour s'occuper des absents - de l'absente. Pourtant je pense à toi si souvent, avec des pointes de désir et d'amour..." ["Everything is going well: everything passes, everything goes by. But in passing there remains little time to think of the absent ones - of the absent one. Yet I think of you so often, with pangs of desire and love..."] and rejoices at seeing her soon: "Dans un petit mois je ferai de mon mieux pour combler toutes lacunes. Serre bien ton château de ma part. Je t'embrasse très fort. Harry" ["In a little month I will do my best to fill all gaps. Hold your castle tight on my behalf. I embrace you very strongly. Harry"]
    €250
  40. Voyage au Chili, au Pérou, et au Mexique
    Capitaine BASIL HALL
    Voyage au Chili, au Pérou, et au Mexique
    Arthus Bertrand|Paris 1825|13 x 21.30 cm|2 volumes reliés
    First French edition translated by Leroy, illustrated with a folding map.
    Contemporary half green glazed calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with roulettes and 4 blind-tooled ornaments. Green bronze title and volume labels. Traces of rubbing. Narrow split to lower joint at head of volume I with a small lack at head. Some pale scattered foxing. Part of the map's margin absent without consequence. Good copy.
    Appointed commander of the Conway, Captain Hall was charged by the British Crown with an exploratory voyage along the coasts of South America. He travelled to Chile via Cape Horn, to Peru, Panama, and finally to Mexico following the coastline. The captain possessed a very lively and engaging narrative sense which he put to the test in other voyages he undertook on his own account, notably in North America.
    €700
  48. Photographie de Galen Clark posant devant le séquoia Grizzly Giant à Yosemite Park Californie
    Carleton WATKINS (Galen CLARK)
    Photographie de Galen Clark posant devant le séquoia Grizzly Giant à Yosemite Park Californie
    s. d. [1865]|30 x 19.30 cm|une photographie sous marie-louise
    n.d (1865), photo: 30x19,3 cm / mount: 48x37 cm, a photograph mounted.

    Original photograph printed on albumen paper, with a very sharp rendering thanks to the photographer's mastery of the difficult wet collodion technique.

    Rare and impressive photograph made by the very first photographer of Yosemite and featuring one of the pioneers of ecology.

    The American photographer Carleton Watkins first came to Yosemite in 1861 with his “mammoth” camera, where he took an impressive series of views of the valley. It was partly because of his splendid photographs that President Lincoln signed the Yosemite Valley Grant Act on June 30, 1864, declaring the site protected and thus initiating the National Park Service. Watkins continued to take photographs of Yosemite Valley and became acquainted with Galen Clark, pictured here at the foot of the 300-year-old “Grizzly Giant” redwood. Born in Quebec and carried away like many of his compatriots by the California Gold Rush, Galen Clark – whose doctor gave him no more than six months to live – was the first Westerner to discover the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoia trees. He never left the grove, becoming its first guardian in 1864 and remaining there for twenty-four years.
    Although Yosemite Valley attracted artists and wealthy travelers as early as the 1850s, Watkins' images did much to promote the site, especially after the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869.

    Watkins presented his photographs (displayed in redwood frames...) at the Paris World's Fair in 1867. They are now preserved in major American institutions such as the MoMa, the Getty Museum and the MET.
    €2,500
  50. Journal du siège de Carthagène en Amérique
    ANONYME
    Journal du siège de Carthagène en Amérique
    Diary of the Siege of Cartagena in America
    S. n.|Paris septembre 1741|19.50 x 25 cm|relié
    Journal du siège de Carthagène en Amérique [Diary of the Siege of Cartagena in America]
    n.p., Paris September 1741, 4° (19,5x25cm), 16 pp., bound.
    First edition of the French translation. Originally published in Spanish a month before. Translated by Luis Reggio Branciforte and Colonna (Prince of Campoflorido) Spanish ambassador in France.
    Later half camel cloth binding, boards in caillouté paper, the first one with a gilt black morocco label. Spine-top a little rubbed, white end-papers shaded. Contemporary handwritten notes on the upper part of the title page.
    Extremely rare copy of this diary about one of the greatest naval campaigns of the British Navy, and its bitter defeat against the Spanish Treasure Fleet (“West Indias Fleet”).
    €3,000
  51. Voyage autour du Monde, commencé en 1708 & fini en 1711 par le Capitaine Woodes Rogers
    Woodes ROGERS
    Voyage autour du Monde, commencé en 1708 & fini en 1711 par le Capitaine Woodes Rogers
    A Cruising Voyage Round the World
    Chez la Veuve de Paul Marret|à Amsterdam 1716|9.50 x 16.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
    Voyage autour du Monde, commencé en 1708 & fini en 1711 par le Capitaine Woodes Rogers [A Cruising Voyage Round the World]
    Chez la Veuve de Paul Marret, à Amsterdam 1716, 12° (9,5x16,5cm), (10 p.) 415 pp. (29 p.) and (2 p.) 162 pp. (2 p.) 255 pp. (24 p.), 2 volumes, full brown roan.
    First edition of the French translation. First published in English in 1712 under the title A cruising voyage round the world. Illustrated with 2 engraved titles, 14 engraved plates and 7 maps including 2 large format (Paraguay and Chile - mainland Peru and Brazil and the Land of the Amazons) and a world map.
    Bound in full brown sprinkled calf, spine elaborately gilt, gilt roulettes on the edges, all red speckled edges. Expertly restored (corners, upper and lower part of joints). Two small restored tears on the world map, not affecting the image.
    Ex-libris in ink "Sr Remy" to the upper left margin of the title-page.
    A tear to the world map, not affecting the engraving.
    The book that brought fame to Alexander Selkirk and inspired the character of Robinson Crusoe.
    English captain and privateer Woodes Rogers undertook his "Voyage Around the World" between 1708 and 1711 at the request of buccaneer William Dampier during the War of the Spanish Succession. This account written on his return narrates the many difficulties encountered by the fleet: desertions, mutinies, scurvy epidemic...
    Especially contains the rescue of Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, after being marooned on the island of Más a Tierra in the Juan Fernández archipelago, more than six hundred kilometers from the Chilean coast. His ship stopped on this island to resupply with wood and water before returning to England after several failed attacks against Spanish fleet and cities in South America. Selkirk pointed out that the damaged ship needed to be refitted or it would likely sink. The captain refused and left the Scotsman on the deserted island. By the time Selkirk realized the absurdity and danger of his decision to stay there, it was too late, and the ship had already weighed anchor. Ironically, the ship later sunk, drowning half the crew. Four years and four months later, on February 2, 1709, Rogers and his crew landed on the island and met this "a Man cloth'd in goat skins, who look'd wilder than the first owners of them”. An engraving in our copy illustrates this chance encounter: "He had with him his clothes and bedding, with a firelock, some powder, bullets, and tobacco, a hatchet, a knife, a kettle, a bible, some practical pieces, and his mathematical instruments and books. He diverted and provided for himself as well as he could; but for the first eight months had much ado to bear up against Melancholy, and the Terror of being left alone in such a desolate place. He built two hutts cover'd them with long grass, and lin'd them with the skins of soats, which he kill'd with his gun as he wanted, so long as his powder lasted […] At his first coming on board us, he had so much forgot his language for want of use, that we could scarce understand him, for he seem'd to speak his words by halves”. Captain William Dampier who was there during Selkirk's abandonment, encouraged Rogers to hire him as foreman and the unfortunate Scot returned to England with them.
    Rogers' account was a great popular success, mainly thanks to Selkirk's recue story. A close friend of Rogers, author Daniel De Foe used this incredible story and extended Robinson's stay on a desert island to twenty-eight years. His novel published in 1719 was a huge bestseller and remains one of the greatest works of literature to this day.
    €2,500
  52. Voyage autour du monde par la fregate du roi La Boudeuse et la flûte L'Etoile ; en 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769
    Louis Antoine de BOUGAINVILLE
    Voyage autour du monde par la fregate du roi La Boudeuse et la flûte L'Etoile ; en 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769
    Chez Saillant & Nyon|Paris 1771|19 x 26 cm|relié
    Chez Saillant & Nyon, Paris 1771, in-4 (19x26cm), (6 p.) 417 pp. (3 p.), contemporary calf.
    First edition, with 18 engraved maps et 5 folding engraved plates.
    Contemporary tan calf, skillfully restored tear to the first folding map, some marginal restorations to the map “Troisième division - Archipel des navigateurs”. Falkland Islands map expertly rebacked on the outer margin as well as the Magellan Strait map. Map of the Buton Strait with a small marginal tear and a second restored with a strip of paper.
    Bougainville undertook the first official French circumnavigation and scientific expedition. Starting from Nantes in November 1766, he sailed to the Falklands, made a stopover in Buenos Aires and then crossed the Magellan Strait and the Pacific through the East Indies. The expedition visited the Samoan Islands, Tahiti, the New Hebrides...
    300-word glossary of Polynesian language (Tahiti) in-fine.
    “He first went to Paraguay, to the main Portuguese settlement, and gives engaging geographical and commercial descriptions. Details on the Falkland Islands and on Brazil are also instructive. The reader is pleasantly surprised to find [...] the delicious picture of the island of Tahiti. Sailing away from this blessed island, the traveler visited several other islands [...] He stopped over in New Britain, finally entered the Indian Sea, visited the main islands, such as Celebes, Java, Moluccas...” Boucher de la Richarderie, Bibliothèque universelle des voyages.
    €6,000
  58. La liga de los naciones, trabajos de la secunda asamblea
    Cosme DE LA TORRIENTE
    La liga de los naciones, trabajos de la secunda asamblea
    Imprenta y papeleria de Ramble, Bouza y Ca|Habana [Havana] 1922|17 x 25.50 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Copy with a folding photographic frontispiece.
    Half brown shagreen binding, lightened spine with five raised bands set with black fillets, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, original wrappers preserved.
    Autograph inscription dated and signed by Cosme de La Torriente, in Spanish, to the Cuban French-language poet Armand Godoy.
    €120
  59. Requiem de Clem-Sohn - Signé Auguste Boncors - La Résurrection triomphale de Clem-Sohn
    Auguste BONCORS
    Requiem de Clem-Sohn - Signé Auguste Boncors - La Résurrection triomphale de Clem-Sohn
    1937|24.20 x 27.60 cm|un carton imprimé recto-verso
    First edition of this double-sided cardboard panel designed "to the glory of the immortal American Hero, as to the immense glory of the Aviation of all Peoples".
    Portrait of the poet Auguste Boncors, in profile wearing an emperor's crown and text entitled "La résurrection triomphale de Clem-Sohn". On the verso, a poem "Requiem de Clem-Sohn", printed in red and gold, and dedicated to Franklin Roosevelt.
    A native of Michigan, Clem Sohn made his very first parachute jump at the age of 18. A few years later, he manufactured his first set of wings on his mother's sewing machine and made his first jump thus equipped in March 1935 at Daytona Beach before 100,000 people. Enjoying immense popularity from then on, he performed at numerous air shows, notably in Europe. It was during the Vincennes Air Festival that he died on April 25, 1937. Before takeoff, he had said to a journalist: "I feel as safe as in your grandmother's kitchen.".
    €450
  62. Carte postale photographique dédicacée à Alice Rim représentant l'Empire State Building à New York
    Maurice CHEVALIER
    Carte postale photographique dédicacée à Alice Rim représentant l'Empire State Building à New York
    S. n.|New York 17 Octobre 1955|9.50 x 14 cm|une feuille
    Photographic postcard inscribed by Maurice Chevalier to Alice Rim showing the imposing Empire State Building in New York.
    The postcard is addressed, from New York, in telegraphic form, to Caro Canaille, pen name of Alice Rim, Carlo's wife:
    "Première manche - la scène - gagnée - Il reste la TV - épreuve capitale - le 4 Déc. Mille pensées amicales. Maurice. Waldorf Astoria N.Y." ["First round - the stage - won - TV remains - crucial test - Dec 4th. A thousand friendly thoughts. Maurice. Waldorf Astoria N.Y."]
    Carlo Rim was a Provençal writer, author of "Ma belle Marseille", a caricaturist, a filmmaker and was notably the friend of Fernandel, Raimu and Marcel Pagnol but also of Max Jacob and André Salmon whom he met in Sanary.
    €150
  64. Lettre autographe datée et signée de remerciements adressée à son ami Christian Giudicelli
    William GOYEN
    Lettre autographe datée et signée de remerciements adressée à son ami Christian Giudicelli
    S. n.|s. l. 29 Janvier 1975|14 x 24.50 cm|une feuille + une enveloppe
    Rare autograph letter dated January 25, 1975 and signed by William Goyen, in French (with some errors) to Christian Giudicelli thanking him for his kindness and availability (24 lines in black ink).
    Fold marks inherent to mailing.
    Sometimes addressing him formally, sometimes informally, William Goyen warmly thanks his correspondent: "Merci de votre entretien que me plait beaucoup. C'est dommage qu'on a abrégé, mais tu peut à en user plus tard, n'est-ce pas ?" ["Thank you for your interview which pleased me very much. It's a pity that it was shortened, but you can use more of it later, can't you?"]
    William Goyen regrets not being able to correspond as regularly as he would like with Christian Giudicelli: "trop de mois sont passé sans nouvelles de vous, mais nous ne pouvions écrire à faute de la grève. Mon cher ami. Que nous pouvions parler : il y a tant de choses que je voudrais prendre part à toi... je vous remerciez mille fois les tendresses et les bontés quand j'étais la avec toi et mon ami de grand prix Maurice Coindreau." ["too many months have passed without news from you, but we couldn't write because of the strike. My dear friend. How we could talk: there are so many things I would like to share with you... I thank you a thousand times for the tenderness and kindness when I was there with you and my dear friend Maurice Coindreau."]
    €300
  65. Requiem for a Nun [Requiem pour une nonne]
    William FAULKNER
    Requiem for a Nun [Requiem pour une nonne]
    Random House|New York 1951|12 x 19 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
    Requiem for a Nun
    Random House | New York 1951 | 12 x 19 cm | publisher's binding
    First edition, one of 750 numbered copies signed by the author, the only grands papiers (deluxe) copies.

    Publisher's binding in half black cloth, marbled paper boards.

    Autograph signature of William Faulkner on the justification page.

    A beautiful copy, complete with its original acetate dust jacket.
    €3,500
  67. Bristol autographe signé adressé à son amie Claude Arthaud
    Harry MATHEWS
    Bristol autographe signé adressé à son amie Claude Arthaud
    S. n.|Lans-en-Vercors 17 Octobre 1976|14.70 x 11.70 cm|une feuille + une enveloppe
    Autograph signed bristol card from Harry Mathews addressed to his close friend Claude Arthaud (24 lines in black ink) from his country retreat in Lans-en-Vercors, Isère, envelope included.
    In this note filled with tender nostalgia, Harry Mathews shares with his correspondent the sadness he felt at not being able to reach her when she was in Paris and the difficulty of contacting her: "Je t'ai appelé trois fois à Paris aux dates que tu m'avais indiquées. La troisième fois une vois (sic) extraordinairement émilienne a prononcé la formule si familière : "c'est de la part de qui ? Madame, elle est n'est pas là, monsieur." ["I called you three times in Paris on the dates you had given me. The third time an extraordinarily Emilian voice pronounced the so familiar formula: 'who shall I say is calling? Sir, madam is not here.'"]
    Before going to New York, Harry Mathews hopes to finally be able to speak with Claude Arthaud: "... je passerai quelques jours à Paris. Y seras-tu pour qu'on se parle (au moins) enfin?" ["... I will spend a few days in Paris. Will you be there so we can talk (at least) at last?"]
    Despite a melancholy that surfaces in this letter, the American writer exudes joie de vivre: "Je suis heureux dans ma nouvelle vie, malgré mes idées sur les choses de ce monde. Tout ce qui m'arrive (lire : ce que j'ai voulu) me semble à la fois incroyable et incroyablement naturel." ["I am happy in my new life, despite my ideas about the things of this world. Everything that happens to me (read: what I wanted) seems to me both incredible and incredibly natural."]
    The note ending with an affectionate: "Je t'embrasse - Harry." ["I embrace you - Harry."]
    €300
  68. Sophie's Choice [Le Choix de Sophie]
    William STYRON
    Sophie's Choice [Le Choix de Sophie]
    Jonathan Cape|London 1979|16 x 24 cm|cartonnage de l'éditeur
    Sophie's Choice
    Jonathan Cape | London 1979 | 16 x 24 cm | publisher's binding
    First English edition.
    Publisher's binding in full black cloth. Complete of its printed jacket illustrated with the photographic portrait of the author, with two small missing pieces at the top of the spine.

    Surprising autograph inscription signed and dated by Meryl Streep, a year before she played the title role in the movie adaptation by Alan J. Pakula, for which she won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1983: "For Keith, thanks for an interesting afternoon, 16/10/1981, London"
    This "Keith" could very well be Keith Barish, producer of the Pakula film, who bought the rights from Styron as soon as the novel was published. Meryl Streep will not be casted for the role of Sophie until the summer of 1981, as reported by the New York times of July 22, 1981:
    "After a two-year search, Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline have been chosen to play the doomed lovers in the film version of William Styron's novel about a survivor of Auschwitz, ''Sophie's Choice.'' How and why they got the roles casts a certain amount of light on the way things are done in Hollywood.
    Mr. Styron's novel was purchased for approximately $750,000 in May 1979 by Keith Barish, a multimillionaire land developer who had decided to go into the movie business. It was the first property he acquired, and he bought it for the director Alan Pakula, who received an Academy Award nomination for ''All The President's Men.''

    By mid-July, Lord Grade's Marble Arch Productions had agreed to make the book into a $10 million to $12 million motion picture. None of the three men most involved – Mr. Barish, Mr. Pakula and Martin Starger, president of Marble Arts – were exploiting a popular novel. All three saw the book as an important – perhaps great-motion picture. »
    The "interesting afternoon" in "London" mentioned in this letter by Meryl Streep in her autograph inscription could therefore be the closing of this agreement in the offices of Lord Grade in London whose Marble Arch Productions financed the 14 million dollars film.

    Despite the absence of an explicit surname, the circumstances, date, and location mentioned in this surprising and very early dedication make it possible to determine with certainty its recipient as one of the people primarily responsible for casting in Sophie's Choice. More precisely Keith Barish, who weighed in on the choice of Meryl Streep against the opinion of Pakula who preferred Magda Vasaryova to her.

    Unique presentation copy undoubtedly bearing the first significant inscription by Meryl Streep on this masterpiece which will become one of the greatest films of her career.
    €1,500
  70. Exposé de l'organisation de l'armée des Etats-Unis d'Amérique
    Charles ERDT
    Exposé de l'organisation de l'armée des Etats-Unis d'Amérique
    Renaud|Montpellier s. d. [circa 1870]|16 x 23 cm|2 fascicules brochés en 1
    First edition of the French translation established by d'Herbelot.
    Some light foxing, the temporary wrapper has been reinforced at the margins of the boards with adhesive paper strip, small corner losses to the boards.
    Rare work presented under temporary wrapper and in its original stitching.
    Autograph inscription signed by the translator M. d'Herbelot to a member of his family.
    €250
  74. Pequena antologia
    Silvina OCAMPO
    Pequena antologia
    Ene editorial|Buenos Aires 1962|12.50 x 20.50 cm|broché
    First collected edition.
    Light tears to spine, very lightly sunned without any gravity, endpapers partially shadowed due to the presence of press clippings.
    Autograph inscription signed by Silvina Ocampo to her friend Ema Risso Platero: "Ah, Emita, te extraño ya. Silvina" ["Ah, Emita, I miss you already. Silvina"].
    Ema Risso Platero, Uruguayan diplomat, was a painter, poet, writer (she notably published Arquitecturas del insomnio with a prologue by Borges) and was a friend of Michel Foucault and Jorge Luis Borges.




    €300
  76. "une [nurse] attachée à ma personne, me baignant, me lotionnant, me frictionnant de mains adroites, couchant en long peignoir bleu et les cheveux défaits dans ma chambre"
    Victor SEGALEN
    "une [nurse] attachée à ma personne, me baignant, me lotionnant, me frictionnant de mains adroites, couchant en long peignoir bleu et les cheveux défaits dans ma chambre"
    Signed autograph letter sent from San Francisco to Emile Mignard
    San Francisco dimanche 22 novembre 1902|13.70 x 18 cm|4 pages sur un feuillet double
    Autograph letter signed by Victor Segalen addressed to Emile Mignard, four pages written in black ink on a double sheet of blue letter paper. Transverse creases inherent to the sending. Trace of white paper hinge.
    Emile Mignard (1878-1966), also a doctor and from Brest, was one of Segalen's closest childhood friends whom he met at the Jesuit college Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, in Brest. The writer maintained with this schoolmate an abundant and very sustained correspondence in which he described with humor and intimacy his daily life in the four corners of the globe. It was at Mignard's wedding, on February 15, 1905, that Segalen met his wife, Yvonne Hébert.
    Segalen, who left Le Havre on October 11, 1902 bound for Tahiti, saw his voyage interrupted by contracting typhoid fever which would ultimately immobilize him for two months in San Francisco: "Pleine convalescence mon cher Emile. [...] Aucune complication. Ma fièvre aura été de type « ambulant » car j'ai promené tout mon premier septénaire en sleeping. [...] J'ai renoncé à prendre le paquebot du 6 Décembre. Une rechute à bord et je ferais immanquablement connaissance avec les bas-fonds du Pacifique. Je partirai seulement le 11 Janvier. L'hiver est très doux à S[an] Franc[isco]. Dans 10 à 12 jours je m'installerai en ville. [...] New-York m'eût été infâme pour un séjour d'un mois. San Fr[ancisco] m'agrée." ["Full convalescence my dear Emile. [...] No complications. My fever was of the 'ambulatory' type as I spent my entire first week in the sleeping car. [...] I've given up taking the steamer of December 6th. A relapse on board and I would inevitably make acquaintance with the depths of the Pacific. I will only leave on January 11th. The winter is very mild in S[an] Franc[isco]. In 10 to 12 days I will settle in town. [...] New York would have been dreadful for a month's stay. San Fr[ancisco] suits me."] After sharing with his correspondent his feelings when approaching a possible death ("[...] je cherche à définir mon état d'esprit, quand, lucide j'ai appris que j'avais 41° et plus, la réaction de Vidal et des taches rosées lenticulaires. J'ai envisagé froidement l'éventualité d'une issue fatale. Au point de vue religieux siccité absolue. Tout s'est reporté sur mes parents, mes amis." ["[...] I seek to define my state of mind, when, lucid, I learned that I had 41° and more, Vidal's reaction and lenticular rose spots. I coldly considered the eventuality of a fatal outcome. From a religious point of view absolute dryness. Everything was transferred to my parents, my friends."]), Segalen - always very interested in womankind - gives his doctor friend details about the hospital nurses: "Etonnement de trouver un Hôpital Français en ce répertoire cosmopolite du Grand Océan. Etonnement d'y voir comme personnel une quarantaine de « nurses », 20 à 25 ans, jolies parfois, toutes munies de brevets littéraires, « graduées » comme on dit ici, dont une attachée à ma personne, me baignant, me lotionnant, me frictionnant de mains adroites, couchant en long peignoir bleu et les cheveux défaits dans ma chambre, me parlant de Rudyard Kipling, Tennyson, écrivant entre deux bains froids à ses « amis »..." ["Astonishment at finding a French Hospital in this cosmopolitan directory of the Great Ocean. Astonishment at seeing as staff about forty 'nurses,' 20 to 25 years old, sometimes pretty, all equipped with literary certificates, 'graduates' as they say here, one of whom was assigned to my person, bathing me, lotioning me, rubbing me with skillful hands, sleeping in a long blue robe with her hair undone in my room, speaking to me of Rudyard Kipling, Tennyson, writing between two cold baths to her 'friends'..."] This convalescence, which would last until early January 1903, would be an opportunity for Segalen to discover China Town.
    Autograph letters by Victor Segalen are of great rarity.
    €3,000
  77. Lo amargo por dulce
    Silvina OCAMPO
    Lo amargo por dulce
    Emece editores|Buenos Aires 1962|12.50 x 20.50 cm|broché
    First edition.
    Spine very lightly sunned without any gravity, final endpaper partially shadowed due to the presence of a press cutting.
    Handsome autograph inscription signed by Silvina Ocampo to her friend Ema Risso Platero: "A Emita, para que no me olvide en los jardines del mundo en donde hay verdes... que nos dan y temura. Silvina 1963." ["To Emita, so that she doesn't forget me in the gardens of the world where there are greens... that give us tenderness. Silvina 1963."]
    Ema Risso Platero, Uruguayan diplomat, was a painter, poet, writer (she notably published Arquitecturas del insomnio with a prologue by Borges) and was a friend of Michel Foucault and Jorge Luis Borges.




    €500
  78. "Ledit sujet est une petite juive de 18 ans, métissée de Mexicain avec une pointe d'origine Allemande. Le résultat de ces croisements invraisemblables est purement exquis."
    Victor SEGALEN
    "Ledit sujet est une petite juive de 18 ans, métissée de Mexicain avec une pointe d'origine Allemande. Le résultat de ces croisements invraisemblables est purement exquis."
    Double signed autograph letter sent from San Francisco addressed to Emile Mignard
    San Francisco dimanche 28 et lundi 29 décembre 1902|13 x 20 cm|8 pages sur 2 feuillets doubles
    Autograph letter signed by Victor Segalen addressed to Emile Mignard, eight pages written in black ink on two double sheets of white paper. Transverse creases inherent to mailing. Trace of white paper tab. A small stain in the lower margin of the last sheet.
    Emile Mignard (1878-1966), also a doctor from Brest, was one of Segalen's closest childhood friends whom he met at the Jesuit college Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours in Brest. The writer maintained an abundant and sustained correspondence with this friend in which he described with humor and intimacy his daily life in the four corners of the globe. It was at Mignard's wedding on February 15, 1905, that Segalen met his wife, Yvonne Hébert.
    Segalen, who left Le Havre on October 11, 1902, bound for Tahiti, saw his journey interrupted by contracting typhoid fever which ultimately immobilized him for two months in San Francisco. This convalescence, which lasted until early January 1903, gave Segalen the opportunity to discover Chinatown. At the time, he wrote this long letter to Mignard in which he shared premonitory dreams that mutual friends had about his illness: "I received 24 hours apart the following two accounts: from Max [Prat]: dreamed on the night of November 26-27 about me - saw me with my head wrapped in bandages. Nightmare and persistent unpleasant impression. Learned that very day through a card from my family, who had received the news on the evening of the 26th, of my illness. From Madame Varenne; dreamed obsessively about me from approximately December 1st to 4th. [...] On the 5th, I believe, she received notice of my typhoid incident." Very rationally, Segalen concludes: "All this just for the record, because it lacks rigor. The telepathic dreams would have coincided rather with the news of my illness than with the exacerbation of my fever itself."
    Now completely recovered from his illness, the young doctor continues: "My Franciscan stay continues to be most 'comfortable' and complete. I ride horses in the Park, lift weights and swim at the Olympic club [...]" He also indulges in a much more carnal sport and "performs practical work on the person of an American subject, selected before [his] departure from the hospital among the very appetizing 'nurses'". Not sparing with details, he expands on this new conquest: "Said subject is a little 18-year-old Jewish girl, mixed with Mexican with a touch of German origin. The result of these improbable crossings is purely exquisite. [...] Average height, very supple, eyes and hair of an improbable black, very affectionate and very spirited. That's all. Nothing underneath, and in this heart clothed in such a pretty coat of flesh, an absolute void of our most elementary feelings. She's a complete mistress-companion type. Our embraces are necessarily polyglot: she spices our spasms with a Hebrew 'che t'aime' very prettily murmured. And I respond with words of love gleaned in the morning from Tennyson or from my memories. I have her at hand at the desired hours. She smokes enormously, adores pure seltzer water (!) and contorts herself at my Franco-American jokes and my audacious flights in the language of President Roosevelt."
    Autograph letters by Victor Segalen are extremely rare.
    €3,500
  79. "[...] ma sexualité est infiniment occupée par ma vorace Israélite."
    Victor SEGALEN
    "[...] ma sexualité est infiniment occupée par ma vorace Israélite."
    Double signed autograph letter, the last sent from San Francisco addressed to Emile Mignard
    San Francisco jeudi 8 et samedi 11 janvier 1903|13 x 20 cm|6 pages sur 3 feuillets
    Double autograph letter signed by Victor Segalen addressed to Emile Mignard, six pages written in black ink on three sheets of white paper. Transverse folds inherent to posting. Traces of white paper tabs.
    Emile Mignard (1878-1966), also a doctor from Brest, was one of Segalen's closest childhood friends whom he met at the Jesuit college Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, in Brest. The writer maintained with this comrade an abundant and very regular correspondence in which he described with humor and intimacy his daily life in the four corners of the globe. It was at Mignard's wedding, on February 15, 1905, that Segalen met his wife, Yvonne Hébert.
    Segalen, who departed from Le Havre on October 11, 1902 bound for Tahiti, saw his journey interrupted by contracting typhoid fever which would ultimately immobilize him for two months in San Francisco. This convalescence, which lasted until early January 1903, was an opportunity for Segalen to discover China Town. In this letter, the last that the doctor would address to his friend from California, it is time for assessment: « Je laisse ici à défaut d'Amis, nom que je ne prodigue plus, de très bons camarades et de très bienveillants patrons. [...] Je ne quitte pas sans une pointe de tristesse une ville amusante et trouble et quelques braves gens. Je promets des retours auxquels je ne crois pas et des souvenirs dont plusieurs s'effaceront. » ["I leave here, lacking Friends, a name I no longer lavish, very good comrades and very benevolent bosses. [...] I do not leave without a hint of sadness an amusing and troubled city and some good people. I promise returns in which I do not believe and memories of which several will fade."] Segalen nevertheless returns to his American conquest, already mentioned in his letter from late December: « Je n'omets pas dans le protocole des adieux une séance opératoire soignée sur mon sujet Miss Rachel qui m'est restée bien amusante pendant mon mois supplémentaire. Quel joli petit animal ! Je me suis donné le malin plaisir de réunir en un même dîner plusieurs compétiteurs de ce très succulent morceau. » ["I do not omit from the farewell protocol a careful operative session on my subject Miss Rachel who remained quite amusing to me during my additional month. What a pretty little animal! I gave myself the mischievous pleasure of bringing together at the same dinner several competitors for this very succulent morsel."] We discover here that he did not limit himself to this single sensual relationship: « Ayant satisfait aux lois de l'esthétique en la personne de ma petite Juive, vraiment tentante, j'ai trouvé intéressant et bon de m'occuper de son extrême parmi la cohorte des nurses ; une petite béarnaise échouée ici, laide sans trop, d'une laideur suffisante pour l'isoler, la priver de sortie à deux. Je lui donne volontiers de longues heures de causeries et l'illusion brève d'épanchements nouveaux ; sans plus d'ailleurs car ma sexualité est infiniment occupée par ma vorace Israélite. » ["Having satisfied the laws of aesthetics in the person of my little Jewess, truly tempting, I found it interesting and good to occupy myself with her extreme among the cohort of nurses; a little Béarnaise stranded here, ugly but not too much, with an ugliness sufficient to isolate her, deprive her of going out as a pair. I willingly give her long hours of conversation and the brief illusion of new confidences; nothing more moreover because my sexuality is infinitely occupied by my voracious Israelite."]
    This is here for Segalen the opportunity to engage in an anthropological account of the American woman: « La « girl » est ici cet être américain qui peut être millionnaire ou employée de téléphone, noceuse ou rigide. Pas de catégories tranchées comme en France. Elle est souvent de bonne humeur, mange bien, boit plus encore et s'enivre carrément. » ["The 'girl' is here this American being who can be a millionaire or telephone operator, party-goer or rigid. No clear-cut categories like in France. She is often in good humor, eats well, drinks even more and gets frankly drunk."]
    Autograph letters by Victor Segalen are extremely rare.
    €3,000
  80. Deux dessins originaux au styllo bille bleu représentant Charles Laughton sur le même feuillet
    Carlo RIM
    Deux dessins originaux au styllo bille bleu représentant Charles Laughton sur le même feuillet
    s. l. s. d. [circa 1950]|20.50 x 27 cm|une feuille
    Two original drawings in blue ballpoint pen both captioned "Charles Laughton" representing in the first drawing, bust and full-length, the cinema man walking with a determined step; in the second, younger and less corpulent, the face in close-up with a cigarette on his lips.
    Carlo Rim was a Provençal writer "Ma belle Marseille", a caricaturist, a filmmaker and was notably the friend of Fernandel, Raimu and Marcel Pagnol but also of Max Jacob and André Salmon whom he met in Sanary.
    €150
  82. Les prisonniers - 380 000 soldats de Hitler aux U.S.A. - Exemplaire de l'as des as des Forces aériennes françaises libres Pierre Clostermann
    Daniel COSTELLE
    Les prisonniers - 380 000 soldats de Hitler aux U.S.A. - Exemplaire de l'as des as des Forces aériennes françaises libres Pierre Clostermann
    Flammarion|Paris 1975|14 x 20 cm|broché
    First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
    Handsome copy despite a slight tear on the front cover diminishing to disappear from the following two pages.
    Iconography
    Precious autograph inscription signed by Daniel Costelles to Pierre Clostermann: "Pour Pierre avec ma très très grande reconnaissance. D.C.." ["For Pierre with my very very great gratitude. D.C.."]
    €80
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