<p>Despite Gutenberg's genius invention, manuscripts will never be erased by the printed word, and solid moveable types are evenly matched by fragile penned letters. Hasty or diligent writing, spidery scrawls or sign of the times.&nbsp;</p>

Gift Ideas – Manuscripts & Letters

Despite Gutenberg's genius invention, manuscripts will never be erased by the printed word, and solid moveable types are evenly matched by fragile penned letters. Hasty or diligent writing, spidery scrawls or sign of the times. 

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Gift Ideas – Manuscripts & Letters
  1. Oeuvres complètes : Les Fleurs du Mal - Curiosités esthétiques - L'art romantique - Petits Poèmes en prose - Histoires extraordinaires - Nouvelles Histoires extraordinaires - Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym. Eurêka
    Charles BAUDELAIRE

    Oeuvres complètes : Les Fleurs du Mal - Curiosités esthétiques - L'art romantique - Petits Poèmes en prose - Histoires extraordinaires - Nouvelles Histoires extraordinaires - Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym. EurêkaOeuvres completes with an autograph letter:

    Michel Lévy frères|Paris 1868-1870|11 x 18 cm|7 volumes reliés et une lettre montée sur onglet
    Œuvres complètes with an autograph letter:
    Les Fleurs du Mal – Curiosités esthétiques – L'Art romantique – Petits Poèmes en prose – Histoires extraordinaires – Nouvelles Histoires extraordinaires – Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym
    Michel Lévy Frères | Paris 1868-1870 | 11 x 18 cm 7 volumes bound in shagreen & one letter
    “Extremely important” edition according to Clouzot: “More and more sought after, rightly so, it includes in first edition: part of Fleurs du Mal, Petits Poèmes en prose, Curiosités esthétiques (except the two Salons), L'Art romantique (except Gautier and Wagner).”
    The Fleurs du...
    €25,000
  2. "Je désire simplement toucher au sujet dans mon livre, pour le besoin du petit drame commercial qui me sert de fable."
    Émile ZOLA

    "Je désire simplement toucher au sujet dans mon livre, pour le besoin du petit drame commercial qui me sert de fable."Autograph letter, signed, unpublished, addressed to Léon Carbonnaux, head of department at Le Bon Marché and advice for the writing of Au bonheur des Dames

    Médan 23 juin 1882|13.40 x 21.60 cm|1 page 1/2 sur un double feuillet - enveloppe jointe
    Autograph letter signed by Emile Zola - apparently unpublished - addressed to Léon Carbonnaux, written in black ink on a double sheet. Folds inherent to mailing. Envelope included.
    Important testimony to the colossal documentation work and the capital role of Emile Zola's informants in depicting his immense natural and social fresco.
    This letter was sent to Léon Carbonnaux, department head at Bon Marché who transmitted precious information to Emile Zola for the creation of the eleventh volume of the Rougon-Macquart series: Au Bonheur des Dames.
    Only two letters from Léon Carbonnaux to Emile Zola are known: they can be...
    €2,800
  3. "Je me suis exténué à faire sortir cette vérité de mon livre, si l'on ne m'a pas compris, la faute en est sans doute à moi."
    Émile ZOLA

    "Je me suis exténué à faire sortir cette vérité de mon livre, si l'on ne m'a pas compris, la faute en est sans doute à moi."Signed autograph letter addressed to Henry Fouquier about La Terre

    Paris 11 février 1888|13.20 x 20.50 cm|2 pages sur un double feuillet

    Autograph letter signed by Emile Zola addressed to Henry Fouquier, written in black ink on a bifolium. Usual folds from mailing.
    This letter was transcribed in the complete correspondence of Emile Zola published by the CNRS and the Presses de l'Université de Montréal.

    €2,800
  4. "Je n'ai eu des nouvelles de Manet qu'indirectement, par Duret. [...] On m'a dit que la déconfiture d'Hoschedé avait jeté la misère dans le camp impressionniste."
    Émile ZOLA

    "Je n'ai eu des nouvelles de Manet qu'indirectement, par Duret. [...] On m'a dit que la déconfiture d'Hoschedé avait jeté la misère dans le camp impressionniste."Signed autograph letter addressed to Louis-Edmond Duranty

    L'Estaque - Marseille [Marseille] 22 septembre 1877|13.30 x 20.80 cm|3 pages 1/2 sur un double feuillet
    Autograph letter signed by Emile Zola addressed to Louis-Edmond Duranty, written in black ink on a double leaf. Some deletions and corrections; folds inherent to postal transmission.
    This letter has been transcribed in the complete correspondence of Emile Zola published by the CNRS and the Presses of the University of Montreal.
    Long letter evoking the heat wave at L'Estaque, Une page d'amour and Edouard Manet.
    "Il y a quatre mois que nous sommes ici, et je vous avais promis de vous écrire. Mais j'ai tant travaillé et j'ai eu si chaud, que vous m'excuserez de mon apparente paresse. Imaginez-vous que jusqu'au 15 août, la...
    €3,000
  5. "J'ai du mal à vous pardonner le mal que vous vous êtes fait à vous-même !"
    Natalie Clifford BARNEY

    "J'ai du mal à vous pardonner le mal que vous vous êtes fait à vous-même !"Signed autograph letter addressed to Dr. Francis Mars

    Paris 17 novembre 1966|20.70 x 13.50 cm|une page sur un feuillet, enveloppe jointe

    Handwritten signed letter addressed to Docteur Francis Mars: "j'ai du mal à vous pardonner le mal que vous vous êtes fait à vous-même !” “I find it difficult to forgive you for the harm you have done to yourself!”
    Paris 17 November 1966, 20.7 x 13.5 cm, one page on a leaf, envelope attached

    Handwritten letter signed by Natalie Clifford Barney addressed to Doctor Francis Mars, a few lines written in black in on a leaf of headed paper from 20 rue Jacob (Paris VIe), envelope attached. Central fold from having been sent.
    "Cher ami Francis, j'ai du mal à vous pardonner le mal que vous vous êtes fait à vous-même ! Natalie (PS: Je ne serai à Nice que vers le 5...

    €600
  6. Poème d'amour autographe à Kérimé "Je cacherai ma flûte"
    Renée VIVIEN

    Poème d'amour autographe à Kérimé "Je cacherai ma flûte"Handwritten poem to Kerima

    s. l. s. d. [1907]|15.70 x 23.10 cm|1 page 1/2 sur 2 feuillets
    Handwritten poem to Kérimé « Je cacherai ma flûte »
    [1907] | 15,7 x 23,1 cm | 1 page 1/2 on 2 leaves
    Handwritten poem entitled « Je cacherai ma flûte », dedicated and offered to Kérimé («Pour le petit faune »). One and a half pages written in purple ink on two leaves edged with border of violets, in total 32 alexandrine verses.
    The poem was published under the same title in Flambeaux éteints (Edward Sansot & Cie, 1907). This first manuscript version has some variations from the printed text.
    Je m'écoute, avec des frissons ardents,
    Moi, le petit faune au regard farouche...
    L'âme des...
    €6,000
  7. Poème d'amour autographe inédit à Natalie Clifford Barney "A l'absente"
    Renée VIVIEN

    Poème d'amour autographe inédit à Natalie Clifford Barney "A l'absente"Unpublished handwritten poem to Natalie Clifford Barney

    s. l. 20 mars 1900|10 x 15.70 cm|2 pages sur un double feuillet
    Unpublished handwritten poem to Natalie Clifford Barney « à l'absente »

    20 March 1900 | 10 x 15,7 cm | 2 pages on a double leaf
    Handwritten poem entitled « à l'absente » (“To the absent one”) and addressed to Natalie Clifford Barney. Two pages written in black ink on a double leaf, headed 24 Hyde Park Street.

    To our knowledge, this three-verse, octosyllabic poem is unpublished. It is preceded, on the first section of this double leaf, by a little handwritten message: “These are the verses I have made, – I would rather say the tears which I have shed – for you. Turn the page, you will find them there, in all their...
    €4,000
  8. Lettre autographe signée adressée à Natalie Clifford Barney et enrichie d'un poème intitulé "Le Miroir"
    Renée VIVIEN

    Lettre autographe signée adressée à Natalie Clifford Barney et enrichie d'un poème intitulé "Le Miroir"Handwritten signed letter addressed to Natalie Clifford Barney and enriched with a poem entitled Le Miroir

    s. l. • [Londres] [London] 24 mars 1900|10 x 15.70 cm|6 pages sur 2 doubles feuillets
    Handwritten signed letter addressed to Natalie Clifford Barney and enriched with a poem entitled « Le Miroir »
    [London] 24 March 1900 | 10 x 15,7 cm | 6 pages on 2 double leaves
    Handwritten manuscript letter by Renée Vivien signed “Pauline” and written in black ink on a double leaf, headed 24 Hyde Park Street. This letter contains a handwritten alexandrine poem entitled “Le Miroir”; never published on the initiative of the poet, but it has been transcribed in “Renée Vivien et ses masques” (in à l'encart, April 1980):

    Je t'admire et ne suis que ton miroir fidèle
    Car je m'abîme en toi pour t'aimer un peu mieux;
    Je...
    €6,000
  9. Aquarelle originale signée - Hippocrate "La jeune femme sera couchée sur le dos ayant les pieds élevés et les jambes étendues- Puis, appliquant des éponges..."
    Joseph KUHN-RÉGNIER

    Aquarelle originale signée - Hippocrate "La jeune femme sera couchée sur le dos ayant les pieds élevés et les jambes étendues- Puis, appliquant des éponges..."[Original signed watercolor – Hippocrates: "The young woman shall lie on her back with her feet raised and her legs extended – Then, applying sponges]

    s. l. s. d. [ca 1930]|24.10 x 30.40 cm|une feuille
    Original signed watercolour - Hippocrate “La jeune femme sera couchée sur le dos ayant les pieds élevés et les jambes étendues- Puis, appliquant des éponges...” “The young woman will be asleep on her back with her feet raised and her legs extended- Then, applying sponges...”
    s.ls.d(ca 1930), 24.1 x 30.4 cm, one leaf
    Original watercolour signed by Joseph Kuhn-Régnier on laid paper, signed at the bottom right of the plate, produced for the illustration of Œuvres by Hippocrates Book III paragraph 5 (Paris, Javal and Bourdeaux, 1932-1934). The colours of this original drawing differ very slightly from the final version chosen for the illustration of the book. There is a caption taken...
    €1,200
  10. Queneau's Awards List
    Dossier des fiches du jury remplies par Raymond Queneau pour le Festival de Cannes de 1952 - et résultats autographes des scrutins
    Raymond QUENEAU

    Dossier des fiches du jury remplies par Raymond Queneau pour le Festival de Cannes de 1952 - et résultats autographes des scrutins[File of the jury score sheets completed by Raymond Queneau for the 1952 Cannes Film Festival — with autograph voting results]

    Cannes 1952|20.90 x 27 cm|90 feuillets
    File of jury sheets completed by Raymond Queneau for the 1952 Cannes Film Festival, comprising 90 leaves almost all filled in by his hand. Only one film is unfortunately missing, Dans la tempête (Arashi no naka no hara) by Kiyoshi Saeki; otherwise the set is complete with reviews of all 35 feature films and 50 short films in the official competition that year. Included as well are 4 pages in pencil and one page in ink of autograph notes recording the results of every vote for all prizes awarded.
    An entertaining collection of Raymond Queneau’s reviews, as a member of the Cannes jury. These sheets capture the...
    €3,800
  11. "Il est excellent, le projet d'ouvrir le Panthéon aux héros qui ont tout offert à la Patrie, jusqu'à perdre leur nom pour elle."
    Pierre LOUŸS

    "Il est excellent, le projet d'ouvrir le Panthéon aux héros qui ont tout offert à la Patrie, jusqu'à perdre leur nom pour elle."Signed autograph letter addressed to Georges Louis

    Paris s. d. [novembre 1920]|13.50 x 18 cm|4 pages sur 4 feuillets
    Autograph letter signed by Pierre Louÿs, addressed to Georges Louis. Four pages written in blue ink on four sheets.
    Handsome letter addressed to his brother Georges Louis with whom Pierre Louÿs maintained a very intimate relationship and whom he considered as his own father.
    The question of Pierre Louÿs's real father's identity still fascinates biographers today: "His father, Pierre Philippe Louis, [...] had married in 1842 Jeanne Constance Blanchin, who died ten years later after having given him two children, Lucie and Georges. In 1855, he remarried Claire Céline Maldan, and from this union was born, in 1857, a son, Paul; then, in 1870, our...
    €1,200
  12. Madame la Comtesse de Castiglione et Napoléon III ou Le bal aux Tuileries le mardi 29 janvier 1856
    [Comtesse de Virginia CASTIGLIONE ] Charles ROBERT

    Madame la Comtesse de Castiglione et Napoléon III ou Le bal aux Tuileries le mardi 29 janvier 1856[Madame Countess of Castiglione and Napoleon III, or The Ball at the Tuileries on Tuesday, January 29, 1856]

    Paris 1856|30 x 24 cm|une feuille sous marie-louise
    Original ink drawing signed and dated by Charles Robert, titled "Madame la Comtesse de Castiglione et Napoléon III ou Le bal aux Tuileries le mardi 29 janvier 1856".
    This drawing immortalizes the historic meeting of the 19-year-old Countess de Castiglione with Emperor Napoleon III at a ball given by his cousin Princess Mathilde. Invested by Cavour with a delicate diplomatic mission, the Countess came to Paris with the aim of seducing the Emperor and making him sympathetic to the Piedmontese cause and thus convert him to the idea of a unified Italy. She had a famed affair with the Emperor, which strengthened ties between France and Italy before coming to an end, as...
    €1,000
  13. Lettre autographe signée adressée à un ami
    Georges CLEMENCEAU

    Lettre autographe signée adressée à un ami

    Mont-Dore-Les-Bains [Le Mont-Dore] 29 août 1909|13.60 x 21 cm|1 page sur un double feuillet
    Autograph letter signed by Georges Clémenceau addressed to a friend. One and a quarter pages written in black ink on a double sheet with letterhead from the International Palace of Mont-Dore-Les-Bains dated August 25, 1909. Folds inherent to mailing.
    Clemenceau, then taking thermal baths at Mont-Dore-les-Bains, writes: "Quand votre aimable invitation m'est arrivée à Carlsbad j'avais un engagement déjà pris." ["When your kind invitation reached me in Carlsbad I already had a prior engagement."]
    Charming and very aesthetic missive.
    €350
  14. Manuscrit intitulé "De l'état de l'église en Gaule au Ve et VIe siècle"
    Gustave FLAUBERT

    Manuscrit intitulé "De l'état de l'église en Gaule au Ve et VIe siècle"

    s. l. s. d. [ca 1860]|19.60 x 31.70 cm|deux pages sur un feuillet
    Autograph manuscript by Gustave Flaubert entitled "De l'état de l'église en Gaule au Ve et VIe siècle", written in black ink on both sides of a sheet.
    Transverse fold.
    Extensive manuscript notes probably written in preparation for the writing of La Légende de Saint Julien l'Hospitalier.
    Precious manuscript, evidence of the writer's working method.

    €4,000
  15. Lettre autographe signée adressée à Narcisse Ancelle. "Je suis très attendu à Paris et à Honfleur"
    Charles BAUDELAIRE

    Lettre autographe signée adressée à Narcisse Ancelle. "Je suis très attendu à Paris et à Honfleur"Autograph letter signed to Narcisse Ancelle. "I am eagerly awaited in Paris and in Honfleur"

    30 mai 1865|13.70 x 21.10 cm|une page sur un feuillet

    Autograph letter signed by Charles Baudelaire to Narcisse Ancelle, written in black ink on a sheet of blue paper.

    Folds from mailing, three minute pinholes not affecting the text.

    This letter was transcribed in the Complete Works volume 11 published in 1949 by L. Conard.

     

    A moving letter from Brussels addressed to the celebrated family notary who became in 1844 Charles's legal guardian, charged with managing his annuity and his exponential debts. A...

    €9,000
  16. Déclaration autographe signée auprès de Mr. Costadi attaché à la légation roumaine à Paris
    Constantin BRANCUSI

    Déclaration autographe signée auprès de Mr. Costadi attaché à la légation roumaine à ParisHandwritten signed declaration to Mr Costadi, attached to the Romanian legation in Paris

    Paris 17/30 janvier 1908|21 x 35 cm|une page sur un feuillet
    Handwritten signed declaration to Mr Costadi, attached to the Romanian legation in Paris
    Paris 17/30 January 1908 | 21 x 35 cm | one page on a leaf
    Handwritten declaration dated and signed by Constantin Brâncuși to Mr Costadi, attached to the Romanian legation in Paris, written in black ink on a leaf of white paper. Embossed stamp and a trace of a stamp. Some transverse folds. The declaration is signed with his full name that he will retain from then on: “C. Brâncuși” and dated “17/30 January 1908” – the two dates reflect the coexistence of the Gregorian and the Julian calendar in Romanian principalities in the early 20th...
    €2,800
  17. " Et ce n'est pas un hasard si En attendant Godot, la pièce étonnante de Samuel Beckett, est une entrée de clowns qui dure deux heures, ne traite de rien en particulier, pose tous les problèmes, arrache le rire au moment où l'on devrait s'épouvanter "
    Boris VIAN (Samuel BECKETT)

    " Et ce n'est pas un hasard si En attendant Godot, la pièce étonnante de Samuel Beckett, est une entrée de clowns qui dure deux heures, ne traite de rien en particulier, pose tous les problèmes, arrache le rire au moment où l'on devrait s'épouvanter "Article on the cabaret - Autograph manuscript partly unpublished

    s. n.|Paris s. d. [ca 1953]|21 x 27 cm|11 feuillets rédigés au recto
    Manuscript, partly unpublished, of an article on cabaret, nine pages plus two additional pages written in purple ink on perforated squared paper sheets. Numerous deletions and corrections as well as several additions. The sheets are numbered in the upper right margin from 1 to 9 then 12 and 13.
    The first nine sheets of this text, which was never published during Boris Vian's lifetime, were transcribed in Les Vies posthumes de Boris Vian by Michel Fauré (1975). The text was erroneously dated 1948 by Fauré: the mention of Samuel Beckett's En attendant Godot, whose premiere took place in 1953, makes this dating impossible.
    An interesting text evoking...
    €2,500
  18. "[J'ai] cessé depuis longtemps toute communication avec Mme Wanda de Sacher-Masoch"
    Léopold de SACHER-MASOCH

    "[J'ai] cessé depuis longtemps toute communication avec Mme Wanda de Sacher-Masoch"Signed handwritten letter

    1er juin 1893|11.30 x 17.70 cm|un feuillet
    Probably unpublished autograph letter, written by a secretary, dated 1st June 1893 and signed by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch to an unknown recipient, probably a lawyer. Handwritten note by Sacher-Masoch in the upper left margin of the letter: « Répondu le 1 mai 93 ».
    Two pages written in black ink on a bifolium.
    The writer is preparing for a possible lawsuit brought by his first wife Wanda, the inspiration for his famous novel La Vénus à la fourrure, who sought to reclaim what was owed to her and free herself from the fantasy she had embodied through her husband’s...
    €800
  19. "Contrairement à ce qu'on pourrait croire, je ne suis pas dans le coup"
    Antoine BLONDIN (to Roger NIMIER)

    "Contrairement à ce qu'on pourrait croire, je ne suis pas dans le coup"Press review with autograph comments addressed to his best friend Roger Nimier from Mayenne

    s. n.|Laval 11 septembre 1957|17 x 12.90 cm|2 feuillets avec coupures de presse contrecollées
    Amusing press review commented by Antoine Blondin addressed to Roger Nimier at his Parisian office at the N.R.F.
    Blondin sends his lifelong friend newspaper clippings from local papers which he pastes on squared sheets.
    Envelope included.
    Beautiful manifestation of the anarchist and zany spirit that guided the steps, not often steady but always soaked, of Antoine Blondin, and of the fraternal and thunderous friendship that united him with Roger Nimier.
    The star of sports journalism prepares for Nimier a collection of news items taken from Ouest France Mayenne:
    Feeding his own reputation as a ribald and...
    €700
  20. "N'oublie pas, pourtant, qu'à côté de Margaux, il y a Lafite et que Latour n'est jamais loin"
    Antoine BLONDIN (to Roger NIMIER)

    "N'oublie pas, pourtant, qu'à côté de Margaux, il y a Lafite et que Latour n'est jamais loin"Signed autograph letter addressed to his best friend Roger Nimier, a veritable review of the greatest French nectars

    Laval 23 octobre 1956|13.50 x 21 cm|2 feuillets + une enveloppe
    Long and exceptional autograph letter signed by Antoine Blondin, addressed to fellow Hussar Roger Nimier at his home on rue de Coëtlogon.
    Blondin plans a gargantuan feast, detailing at length the wines to be served for each guest, while indulging in witty reflections on man’s alcoholic ontology: "Si tu avais simplement lu 'Tiens, voilà du Bouddha !' d'Hubert Robert tu saurais : [...] que cet homme dualiste, sans unité intérieure, a besoin de Bourgogne et de Bordeaux."
    56 lines on two folded leaves.
    Envelope enclosed.
    Published in À mes prochains: lettres, 1943-1984, ed. Alain Cresciucci, 2009, p. 84.
    A fine expression of the anarchic spirit...
    €2,000
  21. Scène de théâtre autographe et cartes postales commentées adressées à son meilleur ami Roger Nimier : "Voilà le mot qu'il ne fallait pas prononcer... Il a le don de titiller mes vieux sphincters"
    Antoine BLONDIN (to Roger NIMIER)

    Scène de théâtre autographe et cartes postales commentées adressées à son meilleur ami Roger Nimier : "Voilà le mot qu'il ne fallait pas prononcer... Il a le don de titiller mes vieux sphincters"

    Laval 19 septembre 1957|17.20 x 22.10 cm|En feuillets
    Precious autograph playlet signed by Antoine Blondin along with five postcards with autograph annotations detailing the locations of the scene, addressed to the hussar Roger Nimier at his Parisian office at the N.R.F.
    Blondin sends to his companion Nimier "Act II, Scene XXXII" of a play entitled "La Curée," a humorous and surreal dialogue in a bistro in Mayenne between a Boulevardier, a young girl accompanied by her little sister, and a waitress.
    79 lines on two leaves (3 pages numbered by the author).
    5 postcards of views of Mayenne numbered and annotated by the author (49 lines in total).
    Envelope enclosed.
    Published in À mes...
    €2,500
  22. "Tout ce qui vécut autour de Verlaine s'efface donc..."
    Stéphane MALLARMÉ

    "Tout ce qui vécut autour de Verlaine s'efface donc..."Signed autograph card addressed to Alidor Delzant

    Paris 11 mars 1897|11.40 x 8.80 cm|une carte recto-verso et une enveloppe
    Autograph postcard signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant, written on both sides in black ink. Envelope enclosed.
    Alidor Delzant was a lawyer, collector and bibliophile. Friend of the Goncourts, he devoted a work to them and was secretary and testamentary legatee of Edmond.
    "Tout ce qui vécut autour de Verlaine s'efface donc, aidé, tant mieux ! de la piété charmante et tendre de Madame Delzant. La gloire du Poëte se fait toujours solitaire." ["Everything that lived around Verlaine thus fades away, helped, so much the better! by the charming and tender piety of Madame Delzant. The Poet's glory always stands alone."] Delzant had...
    €1,500
  23. Portrait à l'aquarelle et à l'encre de Paul Verlaine
    Marie CRANCE (Paul VERLAINE)

    Portrait à l'aquarelle et à l'encre de Paul Verlaine

    Paris S.d (Circa 1893)|19.20 x 22.50 cm|une feuille sous marie-louise

    Ink and watercolour portrait of the poet Paul Verlaine by his friend Marie Crance, bearing the artist's signature and the handwritten caption “Paul Verlaine à l'hôpital”.

    A single sheet, presented in a frame with a mount. An inscription on the back of the frame—“written in the margin (by the framer): ‘For Messrs. Thénot and Lercey, 25 April 1894’”—provides a likely terminus post quem for the drawing.
     
    Marie Crance (1860–1945), nicknamed Marie-aux-fleurs, was at the time the companion of the illustrator Frédéric-Auguste Cazals, whom she married in 1912. A laundress, maid, and occasional singer in the poet’s favourite...

    €2,000
  24. "Eve" Dessin original préparatoire à l'encre
    Constantin BRANCUSI

    "Eve" Dessin original préparatoire à l'encreEva, original drawing signed

    s. d. [ca 1937]|9 x 12.90 cm|Une feuille
    Eva, original drawing signed
    [ca 1937] | 9 x 12,9 cm | one drawing
    Original drawing signed by Constantin Brâncuși in brown ink on cream paper, from the collection of Ion Alexandrescu, a stone mason who worked with the sculptor in 1937-1938 on the creation and installation of the monumental ensemble at Târgu Jiu, and more specifically on The Door of the Kiss and The Table of Silence.
    Brâncuși's preparatory drawings for his sculptures are extremely rare, as opposed to most of the few drawings by the artist seen on auctions, which are mainly...
    €28,000
  25. Lettre autographe signée adressée à Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen : "Nous dirons si vous le voulez bien en simple et bon français que Marcel Aymé a : de la pénétration. [...] Et si Marcel a de la pénétration moi j'ai de la vision."
    Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE

    Lettre autographe signée adressée à Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen : "Nous dirons si vous le voulez bien en simple et bon français que Marcel Aymé a : de la pénétration. [...] Et si Marcel a de la pénétration moi j'ai de la vision."

    s. l. • [Klarskovgaard] 22 octobre 1950|21 x 34 cm|2 pages sur un feuillet
    Signed autograph letter, partly unpublished, by Louis-Ferdinand Céline addressed to his lawyer, Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen. Two pages written in blue ink on a large sheet of white paper; number "582" in Céline's hand in red pencil at top left.
    Cross-folds inherent to mailing.
    This letter was very partially transcribed in Année Céline 2005.
    Fine letter mentioning Marcel Aymé: "We will say, if you please, in simple and good French that Marcel Aymé has: penetration. [...] And if Marcel has penetration, I have vision." We will not revisit the friendship that united Céline and Aymé - the latter even visited him at...
    €1,800
  26. Lettre autographe signée à Michael Smithies : "Voilà un de mes rêves : parler à Oxford et cette fois encore le destin s'y oppose."
    Jean COCTEAU

    Lettre autographe signée à Michael Smithies : "Voilà un de mes rêves : parler à Oxford et cette fois encore le destin s'y oppose."

    Paris s. d. [17 décembre [1955]]|20.80 x 26.80 cm|une page sur un feuillet
    Autograph letter signed by Jean Cocteau addressed to Michael Smithies. One page written in blue ballpoint pen.
    Two transverse folds inherent to the mailing.
    Interesting letter filled with disappointment: "Here is one of my dreams: to speak at Oxford and once again fate opposes it. I have just been very ill..." One easily understands Cocteau's state of health following the sentence, very confused: "on me me chambre la montagne vers ces dates".
    "Think of the sentence I underline and let us organize something for the near future." The poet's dream would be fulfilled the following year; promoted to the rank...
    €700
  27. [Reliure peinte] La Légende de Saint-Julien l'Hospitalier
    Gustave FLAUBERT, Léon COURBOULEIX

    [Reliure peinte] La Légende de Saint-Julien l'Hospitalier[[Painted binding] The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller]

    Léon Courbouleix|Paris s. d. [ca 1939]|24.50 x 32 cm|relié sous étui

    First edition printed in 310 copies, ours being one of 285 numbered copies on Auvergne paper.

    Our copy is enhanced with an original drawing signed by Léon Courbouleix. 
    Bradel binding in full vellum, smooth spine decorated with an original drawing and pen title, covers decorated with drawings by Gaston Hoffmann, marbled paper slipcase.
    Very handsome work entirely engraved with etching, printed on hand press by Léon Courbouleix and bound in a very beautiful painted binding by Gaston Hoffmann.

    €900
  28. Colette Baudoche
    André DESLIGNIERES, Maurice BARRÈS

    Colette Baudoche[Colette Baudoche]

    Librairie Delagrave|Paris 1928|22.50 x 28.50 cm|relié sous étui
    Edition illustrated with original woodcuts within and outside the text by André Deslignières, one of 100 numbered copies on tinted laid Rives paper, the deluxe edition after 50 Annam copies.
    Full orange morocco binding, spine very lightly darkened with four raised bands set with black fillets, gilt roulettes on the headcaps, endpapers and pastedowns of moiré-effect paper, frame of gilt fillets finished at the corners with floral motifs in yellow and green mosaic morocco pieces as well as a brown mosaic morocco fillet, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, gilt fillets on the edges, slipcase bordered with orange morocco, boards of moiré-effect paper, binding signed J. Van West.
    €800
  29. Billet autographe signé
    Alphonse ALLAIS

    Billet autographe signé

    s. d. [circa 1880]|11.60 x 14.20 cm|un billet
    Autograph letter signed by Alphonse Allais, mounted on fine cardboard.
    Traces of transverse folds, small lacks and marginal tears.
    "Espèce de sagouin. / Entendu pour samedi. / Prends moi au Gil Blas vers 6h / Mille cordiaux respects à ta dame. A.A." ["You rascal. / Agreed for Saturday. / Pick me up at Gil Blas around 6pm / A thousand cordial respects to your lady. A.A."]
    €450
  33. Roland Garros comes to the aid of aviators' widows and orphans
    Lettre autographe signée adressée à son "vieux Toto" Jacques Mortane
    Roland GARROS (to Jacques MORTANE)

    Lettre autographe signée adressée à son "vieux Toto" Jacques Mortane[Autograph letter signed addressed to his “old Toto”, Jacques Mortane]

    s. n.|Mannheim s. d. [juin 1914]|22.20 x 28.80 cm|une page sur un feuillet
    Autograph letter signed by Roland Garros, addressed to his "vieux Toto" Jacques Mortane, written in black ink on Parkhotel Mannheim letterhead.
    Horizontal folds from mailing, a few marginal tears without loss.
    A rare and attractive letter in which the aviator refers to "Le Groupe" and the "Jour des Aviateurs" at Juvisy: "Faites l'impossible dans l'intérêt très important du groupe (je vous expliquerai pourquoi jeudi à Paris) pour faire passer en bonne place dans Excelsior l'article inclus, intégralement." Mortane successfully managed to transmit the article, which was published in the 14 June 1914 issue under the...
    €2,500
  34. "Je suis sans nouvelles de Sidi. Je me fais toute une chevelure de soucis."
    COLETTE

    "Je suis sans nouvelles de Sidi. Je me fais toute une chevelure de soucis."Signed autograph letter addressed to Adrien Peytel

    Paris 1914|13.60 x 21.20 cm|en feuillets
    Autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend, the man of letters and lawyer Adrien Peytel, two pages written in black ink in hurried handwriting on a double sheet with L'Eclair newspaper letterhead.
    A central fold inherent to the folding of the letter for mailing.
    Fine letter from Colette, testimony to the confusion that seized France at the dawn of the Great War: "Nothing is working. I am stuck here for a piece they are asking me to write." The writer worries: "I have no news from Sidi [Henry de Jouvenel]. I am creating a whole head of worries for myself. I don't know where he is, he wrote to me that he was leaving...
    €900
  35. Aphrodite
    Edouard CHIMOT, Pierre LOUŸS

    Aphrodite[Aphrodite]

    Editions d'Art de l'Intermédiaire du Bibliophile|Paris 1929|25 x 33 cm|relié sous étui
    Edition illustrated with 16 original color etchings by Edouard Chimot, one of 25 copies on Imperial Japan paper, deluxe copy after 46 other Japan copies variously enhanced.
    Full red morocco binding, spine with four large raised bands set with gilt fillets, burgundy watered silk endpapers and pastedowns, frame of triple gilt fillets on the pastedowns, following endpapers of marbled paper, all edges gilt, original wrappers preserved, slipcase with red morocco entry, moiré-effect paper boards, marbled paper interior, superb full morocco binding signed Vaissière relieur castrais.
    Our copy contains the three states of the 16 plates hors-texte and an original color drawing signed...
    €2,000
  36. Exceptional copy enriched with 12 original drawings
    Les dieux ont soif
    Pierre-Georges JEANNIOT, Anatole FRANCE

    Les dieux ont soif[The Gods Are Thirsty]

    Le livre contemporain|Paris 1925|22.50 x 28.50 cm|relié sous étui
    Edition illustrated with 33 original etchings by Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, including 30 full-page plates, 1 title vignette and 2 headpieces, together with 37 wood engravings by Paul Bornet after Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, comprising 29 initials heightened in red and 8 tailpieces.
    Printed in 124 numbered copies on vellum, all bearing a nominative dedication, this copy issued for Henri Legendre.
    Full burgundy morocco binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with a fasces of the lictor in red morocco mosaic set within gilt fillets, date and place gilt at foot, gilt rolls on the caps, front cover ornamented at center with a circle enclosing a Phrygian cap in red morocco mosaic...
    €2,000
  37. Manuscrit autographe complet de la chanson de Boris Vian intitulée "A la manière de Brassens"
    Boris VIAN

    Manuscrit autographe complet de la chanson de Boris Vian intitulée "A la manière de Brassens"

    S. n.|s. l. 1954-1959|21 x 27 cm|un feuillet perforé
    Complete autograph manuscript on a perforated sheet of 24 lines written in blue ink and pencil of the song entitled "A la manière de Brassens" ["In the manner of Brassens"] containing corrections, deletions and additions while conforming to the final text of the song.
    Small marginal tears on the sheet which has been restored at the head with an adhesive piece.
    We include, on a perforated sheet, the complete typescript of the song.
    A fine ensemble of this song composed between 1954 and 1959.
    Provenance: Boris Vian Foundation.
    €2,500
  38. Manuscrit autographe complet de la chanson de Boris Vian intitulée "Bal des fadas"
    Boris VIAN

    Manuscrit autographe complet de la chanson de Boris Vian intitulée "Bal des fadas"

    S. n.|s. l. 1959|21 x 27 cm|une feuille perforée
    Complete autograph manuscript on one perforated sheet of 13 lines written in red ink of the song entitled "Bal des fadas", presenting despite the final text of this song, corrections, additions and amendments.
    We include, on a perforated sheet, the complete typescript of the song.
    Fine ensemble of this song which was written in 1959 and which was not performed and set to music until 2009 by Les Marche-Pied.

    "Léger comme une antilope / Il dansait, fumant son clope / Une java pleine de syncopes / Elle en eut le coeur cassé"



    Provenance: Fondation Boris Vian.
    €800
  39. "On croit toujours que la pensée, qui est une force, touche son but aussi bien qu'un message écrit."
    COLETTE

    "On croit toujours que la pensée, qui est une force, touche son but aussi bien qu'un message écrit."Autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend Bolette Natanson

    Paris s. d. [12 mars 1936]|17.80 x 22.60 cm|2 pages sur un feuillet

    Fine autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend Bolette Natanson. Two pages written in ink on blue headed paper from the Marignan building, the writer's residence between 1936 and 1938. Transverse folds inherent to the folding of the letter for mailing.
    Moving letter addressed by Colette to her close friend following the death of her father Alexandre Natanson: "[...] ce dimanche va être un dimanche bien pénible. Je t'écris à l'heure juste où tu conduis ton père." ["this Sunday is going to be a very painful Sunday. I am writing to you at the very moment when you are laying your father to rest."] Conscious of the suffering and...

    €1,500
  40. Photographie originale de Charles Maurras datée et dédicacée
    Charles MAURRAS

    Photographie originale de Charles Maurras datée et dédicacée[Original photograph of Charles Maurras, dated and inscribed]

    Pierre Ligey|Paris 1936|19 x 14 cm|une photographie
    Original photograph taken by Pierre Ligey showing Charles Maurras slightly in profile and seated at his work table. Contemporary print.
    Photographer's printed stamp on the verso of the photograph.
    Autograph inscription dated and signed by Charles Maurras at the foot of the photograph: "A André Jeambon très cordialement, Charles Maurras. Paris le 31 Déc. 1936." ["To André Jeambon very cordially, Charles Maurras. Paris December 31, 1936."]
    €400
  41. Manuscrit illustré de dessins originaux et composé de deux parties "La Porcelaine de Chine" et "Le Bronze chinois"
    ANONYME

    Manuscrit illustré de dessins originaux et composé de deux parties "La Porcelaine de Chine" et "Le Bronze chinois"Manuscript with original drawings and made up of two parts, "Chinese Porcelain" and "Chinese Bronze"

    Paris 1888|18 x 23 cm|relié
    Manuscript with original drawings and made up of two parts, “Chinese Porcelain” and “Chinese Bronze”
    Paris 1888 | 18 x 23 cm | contemporary half shagreen
    Manuscript entitled “Chinese Porcelain”, with numerous original drawings in and hors texte, in black and white and color, some full-page on delicate bits of China paper and stuck in to illustrate text or on occasional leaves of thick paper.

    The text is also enriched with a plate from Racinet's Costume historique (1888), as well as a printed page from the same text. This is a made-up volume from several texts: Octave de Sartel, La Porcelaine de Chine (1881), Stanislas Julien...
    €2,500
  42. "Le romancier et occultiste Paul Adam fut, comme vous savez, très lié à Maurice Barrès."
    Félix FÉNÉON

    "Le romancier et occultiste Paul Adam fut, comme vous savez, très lié à Maurice Barrès."Autograph letter signed by Félix Fénéon addressed to Gabriel Mourey

    s. l. 17 février 1942|21 x 27 cm|2 feuilles
    Autograph letter signed by Félix Fénéon to Gabriel Mourey, 18 lines in black ink, folds from mailing.
    A key witness and actor of his time, the art critic and collector Félix Fénéon assists the writer Gabriel Mourey in his search for the correspondence between Paul Adam and Maurice Barrès:
    "Le romancier et occultiste Paul Adam fut, comme vous savez, très lié à Maurice Barrès. (Candidats boulangistes dans deux circonscriptions lorraines contiguës, il firent fraternellement une campagne électorale et journalistique à laquelle leur amitié ne survécut guère.) Comment retrouver tous les papiers de Paul Adam, mort il y a une vingtaine d'années ? Mme Paul Adam...
    €2,500
  43. « Paul Anka est un garçon de vingt ans qui écrit ses chansons et qui les chante. »
    Boris VIAN (Paul ANKA)

    « Paul Anka est un garçon de vingt ans qui écrit ses chansons et qui les chante. »Autograph manuscript of Boris Vian entitled "Conseil de révision (des opinions)" about Paul Anka

    s. d. [1958]|20.90 x 26.90 cm|4 pages sur 4 feuillets
    Autograph manuscript by Boris Vian titled "Conseil de révision (des opinions)" on Paul Anka: "Paul Anka is a boy of 20 who writes his own songs and sings them."

    n. d. [but 1958] | 20.9 x 26.9 cm | 4 pages on 4 leaves

    Autograph manuscript by Boris Vian titled "Conseil de révision (des opinions) [Recommendations for a review of opinions]" on Paul Anka.
    4 pages written in blue ballpoint pen on 4 perforated leaves, stapled. Crossings out and corrections. Lateral fold to left margin, but light.
    The manuscript was for the “elite", which is to say the readers of Canard enchaîné, but was eventually published in La Belle époque...
    €2,000
  44. "Pour notre dernier jour de tournage on va filmer Pharaon"
    Lawrence DURRELL

    "Pour notre dernier jour de tournage on va filmer Pharaon"Autograph postcard signed by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun

    Egypte [Egypt] [1971]|10.50 x 15 cm|une carte postale
    Autograph postcard signed "Larry" by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun, written in black felt-tip pen, on the verso of a photograph of an Egyptian bas-relief.
    The writer to his young Montpellier lover: "For our last day of filming we're going to film Pharaoh receiving the Bonbel Prize for his novel about the private life of a Nile crocodile: 'Le croc'. Then I have to return to London for a few weeks. I hope all is well, dear Buttons.".
    After many years spent in Greece, Egypt and Rhodes, the traveling writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to its independence from the British crown...
    €150
  45. "L'amérique est plein de fric, de frustrées et d'ennui."
    Lawrence DURRELL

    "L'amérique est plein de fric, de frustrées et d'ennui."Autograph postcard signed by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun

    Malibu s. d.|10.50 x 15 cm|une carte postale
    Autograph postcard signed by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun, written in black felt-tip pen, on the verso of a photograph of a Malibu beach.
    "Buttons hola ! L'amérique est plein de fric, de frustrées et d'ennui. Pourtant on est très bien traités et je joue un peu le rôle de Scott Fitzgerald à Malibu." ["Buttons hello! America is full of money, frustrated women and boredom. Yet we are very well treated and I play a bit the role of Scott Fitzgerald in Malibu."].
    After many years spent in Greece, Egypt and Rhodes, the travel writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to its independence...
    €150
  46. "D'avoir soixante ans et d'être aimé (très mal d'ailleurs) par les vampires"
    Lawrence DURRELL

    "D'avoir soixante ans et d'être aimé (très mal d'ailleurs) par les vampires"Autograph postcard signed by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun

    Sommières 20-04-1971|10.50 x 14.50 cm|une carte postale et enveloppe
    Autograph postcard by Lawrence Durrell signed "Dracula" addressed to Jani Brun, written in blue ink, reproduction of a drawing by Marcel Vaysse "Ils sortent...tous les soirs" ["They go out...every evening"], envelope included.
    The writer teasingly mocks his young Montpellier mistress with humor: "Darling Janie - maintenant qu'il fait beau la saison est ouverte et malgré mon age je reçois pas mal des invitations; souvent les filles de dix ans m'envoient des propositions inscrites par télégramme. J'estime que le rôle de papa gâteux me va bien ("le gâtisme c'est le relachment des sphinctères" (Dictionnaire medicale - Pujot)". Je vais en Grèce avec, une, 2, 3, 4...
    €200
  47. "Buttons. Je ne vous crois pas !"
    Lawrence DURRELL

    "Buttons. Je ne vous crois pas !"Autograph postcard from Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun

    Sommières 12-02-1971|10.50 x 14.50 cm|une carte postale et enveloppe
    Autograph postcard from Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun, written in red felt-tip pen, on the reverse of a reproduction of a small poster Mystification conceived by Jacques Yonnet "... Keep your head above water - Prolonged immersion of nose and mouth can cause fatal asphyxia," with attached press clipping "direct with a virile gland...," envelope included.
    The writer informs his young Montpellier lover about his upcoming travels: "Buttons. Je ne vous crois pas ! je suis ici pour 15 jours encore - puis Genève pour une semaine" ["Buttons. I don't believe you! I'm here for another 15 days - then Geneva for a week"].
    After many years spent in...
    €100
  48. Lettre autographe signée de Gérard de Nerval adressée à son père le Dr Labrunie
    Gérard de NERVAL

    Lettre autographe signée de Gérard de Nerval adressée à son père le Dr Labrunie[Autograph Letter Signed by Gérard de Nerval Addressed to His Father, Dr. Labrunie]

    Paris s. d. [circa mars 1841]|10 x 13.10 cm|un feuillet et son enveloppe dépliée
    Very rare autograph letter signed "Gérard Labrunie" addressed to "[his] dear papa" Dr. Labrunie.
    13 lines written in small handwriting in black ink on one page. Unfolded envelope attached showing several postal stamps, restored on the back with an adhesive piece.
    A few transverse creases as well as some very discrete holes, not touching the text and inherent to the use of a pin to seal the letter.
    Fine letter from Gérard Labrunie to his "dear papa" about a "very complicated affair" relating to the "capacity as surrogate guardian" of the writer's father.
    Very rare signature of Gérard de Nerval under his real patronymic name: Gérard...
    €5,800
  49. Propos d'un intoxiqué
    Jules BOISSIÈRE

    Propos d'un intoxiqué[Remarks of an Intoxicated Man]

    Société des éditions Louis Michaud|Paris s. d. [1912]|14 x 21 cm|broché
    Posthumous first edition, one of 120 copies reimposed and numbered on Dutch laid paper, the only copies on deluxe paper.
    A very handsome copy, uncut, enriched with an original watercolour depicting an Annamite soldier, signed Linh-Tap.
    Preface by Jean Ajalbert.
    Attractive illustrated cover by Géo Dorival, with a second state of the illustrated cover supplied on a separate leaf.
    Manuscript signature of Marie-Thérèse Boissière beneath the limitation statement.
    €1,700
  50. Carte-lettre autographe signée au graveur Emile Boilvin sur son départ de la Société nationale des beaux-arts
    Pierre PUVIS DE CHAVANNES

    Autograph letter signed to engraver Emile Boilvin

    Paris 16 mars 1895|11.10 x 14 cm|une feuille

    Autograph letter card signed by the painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes to the engraver Emile Boilvin.
    The painter addresses a resigning member of the Société nationale des beaux-arts, which Puvis de Chavannes had founded and was in charge of the Salon du Champ de Mars, a dissident event from the official Salon des artistes français: "Cher Monsieur Boilvin, c'est avec le plus vif regret que je vous vois vous séparer d'une société où vous ne comptiez que des admirateurs et des amis. Qu'il soit fait selon votre désir, mais encore une fois, votre démission nous cause à tous un réel chagrin. Cordialement, P. Puvis de Chavannes" ["Dear Mr. Boilvin, it is with the...

    €300
  51. Télégramme autographe signé à Edouard Corroyer
    Gustave MOREAU

    Télégramme autographe signé à Edouard Corroyer

    15 juin 1887|11.10 x 13 cm|une feuille
    Autograph signed telegram from painter Gustave Moreau to architect Edouard Corroyer, also a member of the Académie des beaux-arts.
    "Cher et honoré Confrère, Je suis bien sensible à votre si admirable et si gracieuse attention et je vous en remercie de tout coeur. Croyez à tous mes sentiments les meilleurs et les plus affectueux.
    Gustave Moreau
    Samedi matin 7 heures"     ["Dear and honored Colleague, I am very touched by your admirable and gracious attention and thank you with all my heart. Please believe in all my best and most affectionate sentiments.
    Gustave Moreau
    Saturday morning 7 o'clock"]
    €400
  52. Manuscrit inédit sur l'idéologie bourgeoise et la Révolution française
    Jean-Paul SARTRE

    Manuscrit inédit sur l'idéologie bourgeoise et la Révolution française [Unpublished Manuscript on Bourgeois Ideology and the French Revolution]

    s. d. [1952]|-|12 feuillets

    Autograph manuscript of 12 pages on squared sheets, written in blue ink, with numerous passages underlined.
    A previously unpublished set of reflections by Jean-Paul Sartre on social structure and bourgeois ideology, probably written in 1952 as part of a projected screenplay on the revolutionary period. This series of interior dialogues on the nature of individual and collective power constitutes an early draft of the ideas later developed in his 1960 masterpiece, Critique of Dialectical Reason. Through the example of the French Revolution and the Terror, Sartre questions the role of the citizen and of property, drawing on the writings of Kant, Marx...

    €4,500
  53. Lettre autographe adressée à sa soeur Pauline : « Voilà mes rêveries, (...) tu es la seule personne au monde à qui j'ose les dire. »
    STENDHAL

    Lettre autographe adressée à sa soeur Pauline : « Voilà mes rêveries, (...) tu es la seule personne au monde à qui j'ose les dire. » Autograph letter to his sister Pauline: 'These are my reveries, (...) you are the only person in the world I dare share them with.'

    26 mars 1808|20 x 24.80 cm|Une feuille

    Long autograph letter by Stendhal, addressed to his sister Pauline, written in fine handwriting with black ink.
    Address of Stendhal's father, where his sister resides, in Grenoble, with the stamp "n°51 Grande Armée." Red wax seal bearing Stendhal's coat of arms.
    Several original folds, inherent to postal delivery. A paper loss due to the unsealing of the letter has been skillfully restored. Published in his Correspondance (ed. Henri Martineau), Paris, Le Divan, 1933, vol. 3, no. 262 A, pp. 26-29.
    A very beautiful letter, filled with romantic passion, blending childhood nostalgia with sentimental tales, and foreshadowing...

    €15,000
  54. A une ville morte - Poème manuscrit autographe signé de José Maria de Hérédia
    José Maria de HEREDIA

    A une ville morte - Poème manuscrit autographe signé de José Maria de Hérédia[To a Dead City – Autograph manuscript poem signed by José Maria de Heredia]

    s. d. [circa 1893]|16 x 22.50 cm|une feuille
    Sonnet autograph signed by José Maria de Heredia entitled "A dead city" and published for the first time in 1893 in the famous collection "The trophies", masterpiece of the poet.
    To a bleak city. Cartagena of Indias 1532 - 1583 - 1697.
    "Morne town, once queen of the oceans!
    Today the shark pursues in peace the scombs
    and the wandering cloud only extends the shadows
    On your harbor where giant galleons rolled.
    Since Drake and the assault of the English miscreants
    Your cluttered walls crumble in black rubble
    And, like a glorious necklace of dark pearls,
    Pointis balls show the gaping...
    €1,500
  55. "Je suis convaincu que tu as écrit et organisé le meilleur livre qu'on a fait sur moi"
    Antoni TÀPIES

    "Je suis convaincu que tu as écrit et organisé le meilleur livre qu'on a fait sur moi"Autograph letter signed to Georges Raillard

    Barcelone [Barcelona] 9 septembre 1976|22.70 x 27.80 cm|1 page et 1/4 sur un feuillet
    Autograph letter signed by Antoni Tàpies addressed to Georges Raillard, his close friend and foremost French specialist of his work. 1 page and 1/4 written in ballpoint pen. Envelope included.
    The Catalan artist writes to his friend notably to share his reactions regarding the publication of the monograph dedicated to him which would appear the following year: "Je profite pour t'exprimer combien j'ai été content en lisant et regardant finalement sans interruption le texte et les images que tu as choisi dans la monographie. Je suis convaincu que tu as écrit et organisé le meilleur livre qu'on a fait sur moi, le plus complet, le plus agrécif (sic) et que mieux...
    €700
  56. « Un solitaire est jaloux de sa liberté. C'est son plus grand bien comme c'est celui de tous les hommes. »
    STENDHAL

    « Un solitaire est jaloux de sa liberté. C'est son plus grand bien comme c'est celui de tous les hommes. »Autograph letter addressed to his sister Pauline

    10 Floréal 13 [30 avril 1805]|18.50 x 23.10 cm|une feuille
    Stendhal's autograph letter addressed to his sister Pauline. 28 lines written with a fine writing in black ink. First name "Pauline" from the hand of the sender at the bottom of the letter. Inventory number "36" in ink from another hand. Two small traces of stamp and stamp, a small tear restored in the bottom margin of the page. A few tiny folds inherent in the enveloping of the letter.
    Rare and beautiful letter of Stendhal addressed to his sister Pauline, in which all the sensitivity of the young man and his love for the dramatic art shows more than twenty years before his big romantic successes.
    This letter comes from the correspondence between...
    €9,000
  58. Le 14 Juillet - Manuscrit autographe complet d'Henri Béraud
    Henri BÉRAUD

    Le 14 Juillet - Manuscrit autographe complet d'Henri Béraud [The 14th of July – Complete Autograph Manuscript by Henri Béraud]

    S. n.|s. l. 15 Octobre 1928 - 21 Mars 1929|13.50 x 21.50 cm|414 feuillets sous chemise et étui
    Full autograph manuscript, written in black and red ink for the title page and in black ink for the text.

    Our manuscript is presented under shirt and case in full gray canvas made for Henri Béraud, label of title glued at the top of the shirt.


    Complete manuscript in 414 sheets (single-sided), all foliated, dated and written from October 15, 1928 to March 21, 1929.

    Precious manuscript of first draft, abundantly corrected and presenting numerous variants with the definitive text published in 1929.
    €5,000
  59. Le Graal sans la légende
    Yves BONNEFOY

    Le Graal sans la légende[The Grail Without the Legend]

    Galilée|Paris 2013|13 x 22.50 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 85 numbered copies on vellum, ours being one of the first 10 containing a page of the manuscript of the work, the only deluxe copies.
    A pleasing copy.
    Signed in Yves Bonnefoy's hand beneath the justification of the edition.
    €300
  60. Manuscrit expliquant sa pièce de théâtre "A-6-Roc" créée à Lausanne
    Maurice BÉJART

    Manuscrit expliquant sa pièce de théâtre "A-6-Roc" créée à Lausanne Manuscript explaining his play A-6-ROC first performed in Lausanne

    s. d. [ca 1991]|21 x 29.70 cm|10 feuillets

    Handwritten manuscript signed by the choreographer Maurice Béjart. 

    10 leaves written in blue pen. Handwritten pagination.
    Maurice Béjart's handwritten proofs for his book Béjart-theâtre: A-6-Roc (éditions Plume, 1992), about his play A-6-Roc, first performed in the same year at the Vidy theatre in Lausanne.
    After the foundation of “Béjart Ballet Lausanne” and his definitive departure from Belgium in 1987, Béjart continues to stage operas, produce films and publish several books (novel, memories, personal diary...). In addition, he wrote and directed his third play A-6-Roc performed in Lausanne in 1992, which he published...

    €2,300
  61. Quinze jours avec la mort - Manuscrit autographe complet signé et enrichi de dessins en couleurs in-texte d'Henri Béraud
    Henri BÉRAUD

    Quinze jours avec la mort - Manuscrit autographe complet signé et enrichi de dessins en couleurs in-texte d'Henri Béraud [Fifteen Days with Death – Complete Autograph Manuscript Signed and Enriched with In-text Colour Drawings by Henri Béraud]

    S. n.|s. l. 1946 - Pâques 1948|13.50 x 21 cm|203 feuillets sous chemise et étui
    Full autograph manuscript, signed, written in black and red markers for the title page and in blue ink for the text.

    Our manuscript is presented under shirt and case in full gray canvas made for Henri Béraud, label of title glued at the top of the shirt.
    Back and flat of the case and the shirt insolated and having foxinges.

    Complete manuscript in 204 sheets, 203 of which are foliaged and the title page signed with the author's initials and dated 1946, in 12-inch format, single-sided and enriched with in-text color drawings and initials of the author.

    Provenance: Henri Béraud's library.
    €5,000
  62. Meidosem original
    Henri MICHAUX

    Meidosem originalInk and watercolour drawing. [Untitled]

    s. d. [1946-1947]|25 x 34 cm|une feuille

    Original ink on cartridge paper, signed in ink on the lower right with Henri Michaux's monogram “HM.” A tiny tear, causing no effect, at the top of the leaf.
    The drawing has been authenticated by M. Franck Leibovici, Henri Michaux's beneficiary, and will be entered into the catalogue raisonné in preparation.

    €12,000
  64. Manuscrit autographe du chapitre XI du Voyage d'Espagne "Boire de l'eau est une volupté que je n'ai connue qu'en Espagne"
    Théophile GAUTIER

    Manuscrit autographe du chapitre XI du Voyage d'Espagne "Boire de l'eau est une volupté que je n'ai connue qu'en Espagne"[Autograph manuscript of Chapter XI of Voyage d'Espagne, “Drinking water is a pleasure I have known only in Spain]

    s. d. [circa 1843]|13.20 x 21.90 cm|4 feuillets
    Admirable set of four manuscript fragments of chapter XI of the Voyage d'Espagne which exposes behind the scenes of Gautier's writing which, guided by the romantic taste for the picturesque, relates his stays in Madrid and Ocaña and his passages by La Guardia and Tembleque .
    Gautier adopts an astonishing working format revealing the intimate / particular process of writing where flying sheets of different sizes, very tight writing and corrections, and inks of different colors come together.
    Originally intended for a publication in the press, Gautier's article, itself seduced by Spanish exoticism, satisfies the search for picturesque then at its peak in France: "...
    €5,000
  65. Carte autographe signée de Roland Barthes à René Wintzen
    Roland BARTHES

    Carte autographe signée de Roland Barthes à René Wintzen

    s. l. 19 janvier 1955|13.50 x 10.50 cm|une carte recto verso
    Autograph letter signed Roland Barthes, written in black ink.
    Date at the top of the letter and signature at the bottom of the letter.
    Folds caused by mailing and 2 perforations.

    Roland Barthes sends this letter to thank his correspondent who sent him a signed book. He also thanks him for the meetings of writers he was able to do thanks to him and who countered the "skepticism that we always have on the threshold of these talkies of writers". He writes his support for the upcoming efforts.
    1955 is the year in which Barthes begins the writing of Mythologies which appear at Seuil in 1957.
    €400
  66. Carte postale autographe signée d'Alexander Calder à Juan Luis Buñuel
    Alexander CALDER (Juan-Luis BUÑUEL)

    Carte postale autographe signée d'Alexander Calder à Juan Luis BuñuelHandwritten signed postcard addressed to Juan Luis Bunuel

    (Saché) 29 décembre 1956|14.70 x 10.40 cm|une carte postale

    Handwritten signed postcard from Alexander Calder to Juan Luis Buñuel, written in English in ballpoint pen and blue felt-tip. Saché postmark (Indre-et-Loire). Paris address of Juan Luis Buñuel.
    Card perforated with two holes at the top. Photograph of one of Calder's stabiles on the front.
    Provenance: Buñuel family archives.
    In 1939, Luis Buñuel, who had just received an offer to work in Hollywood, decided, with his wife and child, to leave the chaotic situation in Europe to go and live the American Dream. The penniless Buñuels initially spent a few precarious months living in New York. Luis Buñuel found himself forced to ask Dali—his longstanding friend in exile...

    €1,400
  67. Carte postale autographe signée d'Alexander Calder et Juan Luis Buñuel adressée à Jeanne Rucar épouse Buñuel
    Alexander CALDER, Juan-Luis BUÑUEL

    Carte postale autographe signée d'Alexander Calder et Juan Luis Buñuel adressée à Jeanne Rucar épouse BuñuelHandwritten signed postcard from Alexander Calder and Juan Luis Bunuel to Jeanne Bunuel Rucar

    (Saché) 22 décembre 1966|14.70 x 10.40 cm|une carte postale
    Handwritten signed postcard from Alexander Calder and Juan Luis Buñuel to Jeanne Buñuel née Rucar
    N. p. [Saché] December 22th 1966, 14,7 x 10,4 cm, one postcard
    Handwritten signed postcard from Alexander Calder and Juan Luis Buñuel to Jeanne Buñuel, written in French in black felt-tip. Saché postmark (Indre-et-Loire). Jeanne Buñuel's address in Mexico.
    Card perforated with two holes at the top. Photograph of Calder's studio in Saché on the front of the card.
    Provenance: Buñuel family archives.
    In 1939, Luis Buñuel, who had just received an offer to work in Hollywood, decided, with his wife and child, to leave the...
    €1,400
  68. "My dear little mother, you are mad"
    « Tu sais cependant bien que ma destinée est mauvaise. »
    Charles BAUDELAIRE

    « Tu sais cependant bien que ma destinée est mauvaise. »Signed autograph letter addressed to his mother : “You know, however, that my destiny is bad.”

    [Paris] 13 [juillet] 1858 (mal datée « juin »)|13.30 x 20.60 cm|2 pages sur un feuillet remplié sous chemise et étui

    Autograph letter signed by Charles Baudelaire, written in pencil and addressed to his mother. Dry-stamped stationery of the Grand Hôtel Voltaire, Faubourg Saint-Germain. Address to Madame Aupick in Honfleur (Calvados) in the author's hand, together with several postal markings dated 13 and 14 July 1858. Several underlinings, deletions and corrections by Baudelaire. Trace of a wax seal bearing Charles Baudelaire's initials in pencil, probably in the author's hand. A small portion of the second leaf has been excised, with no loss of text.
    This letter was first published in the Revue de Paris on 15 September 1917.
    From the former collection of...

    €15,000
  69. « Dites, Madame, voulez-vous un fétiche ? [...] je porte bonheur moi-même !»
    Guy de MAUPASSANT (to Emmanuela POTOCKA)

    « Dites, Madame, voulez-vous un fétiche ? [...] je porte bonheur moi-même !»Autograph letter signed to Countess Potocka

    Paris s. d. [début janvier 1884]|10.20 x 13 cm|4 pages sur un feuillet double
    Signed autograph letter from Guy de Maupassant to the Countess Potocka, 67 lines in black ink on a letterhead "GM 83, rue Dulong", envelope attached.
    This long letter begins with a commission that was made to Maupassant: " I immediately pay for a commission for which I am charged, although I seem to find a little irony in it. The Princess Ourosow, who has just written to me to ask to see her this evening, begs me, in postscript, to remind her of your memory when I see you. Princess Ourosov was the wife of the Russian ambassador to Paris. With the Countess she was part of that worldly gotha ​​that surrounded authors and artists.
    The irony he...
    €6,800
  70. « Maupassant prêtre libre »
    Guy de MAUPASSANT (to Emmanuela POTOCKA)

    « Maupassant prêtre libre »Autograph letter signed to Countess Potocka

    Paris s. d. [16 janvier 1884]|10.10 x 13 cm|2 pages sur un feuillet rempliée
    Signed autograph letter of Guy de Maupassant to Countess Potocka, 26 lines in black ink on a sheet of laid paper headed "GM 83 Dulong Street".
    Maupassant evokes the episode that marks his entry into familiarity with the countess: the famous story of dolls. Following a lost bet, the Countess Potocka sent Maupassant rag dolls representing the ladies invited to a future dinner. By play, Maupassant took six of them and stuffed them with the belly of cloth before autograph dedication of the author them back to the countess. In a word that accompanied the mail, Maupassant boasted of having them all engrossed in one night.
    To get out of an evening that he would prefer to...
    €7,500
  71. La légende des sexes. Pöemes hystériques
    [Edmond HARAUCOURT as] LE SIRE DE CHAMBLEY

    La légende des sexes. Pöemes hystériques[The Legend of the Sexes. Hysterical Poems]

    Imprimé spécialement pour l'auteur|Bruxelles [Brussels] 15 Avril 1883|14.50 x 23 cm|relié
    First Edition printed, in two parts, on laid to 200 copies numbered and initialed by the author, ours a copy of the second tranche, only draw after 12 Japan.
    Binding half morocco old rose corners, back with five nerves, golden tail date, piece of red morocco title, marble paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, covers (with angular restorations) preserved, corners slightly blunted, gilded head, binding signed Bernasconi.
    The work is also embellished with an engraved portrait of Edmond Haraucourt pasted on a guard.
    Nice and rare copy.
    Precious autograph signed by Edmond Haraucourt: "A Félicien Champsaur in memory of the shaggy that...
    €1,500
  72. Étude de vaches
    Jean-Baptiste TIERCE (Donatien Alphonse François de SADE)

    Étude de vaches

    S. n.|s. l. (Circa 1776)|32 x 40.50 cm|une feuille encadrée
    Original drawing in ink and watercolor.
    Modern frame.
    Drawing made during the journey with the Marquis de Sade in 1776.
    Jean-Baptiste Tierce (1737-1794), student at the École des Beaux-arts in Rouen then at the Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris, quickly distinguished himself as a landscape painter for his views of Southern France and Italy. His paintings are preserved in the Uffizi in Florence and in several French museums. When in December 1775 Sade left Rome for Naples, he was welcomed by the son-in-law of his friend Doctor Mesny, Jean-Baptiste Tierce, who at that time received commissions from Cardinal de Bernis. He found lodging for the Marquis...
    €1,800
  73. Du miel aux cendres
    Claude LÉVI-STRAUSS (inscribed to Raymond FIRTH)

    Du miel aux cendres[From Honey to Ashes]

    Plon|Paris 1966|15.50 x 24 cm|broché

    First edition, for which no copies on larger paper were produced.
    A pleasing copy, with press clippings laid in.
    Exceptional autograph presentation copy inscribed in English by Claude Lévi-Strauss to the anthropologist Raymond Firth.

    €500
  74. Du côté de Nietzsche - Manuscrit autographe complet
    Maurice BLANCHOT (Friedrich NIETZSCHE)

    Du côté de Nietzsche - Manuscrit autographe complet[On Nietzsche’s Side – Complete Autograph Manuscript]

    1946|21.70 x 11.50 cm|7 feuillets foliotés
    Autograph manuscript by the author, 14 pages in octavo, published in issue no. 12 (December 1945–January 1946) of L'Arche.
    A complete recto-verso manuscript in a densely written hand, with numerous deletions, corrections, and additions.
    Essay published on the occasion of the release of Father du Lubac’s Le Drame de l’humanisme athée.

    After the war, the place of Friedrich Nietzsche—alongside the Marquis de Sade and Søren Kierkegaard—in Maurice Blanchot’s thought reflects the decisive influence of Georges Bataille and the philosophers he held in highest regard. From this point on, Blanchot devoted many texts to these figures, and “Du côté de Nietzsche”...
    €2,500
  75. Les romans de Sartre. Manuscrit autographe
    Maurice BLANCHOT (Jean-Paul SARTRE)

    Les romans de Sartre. Manuscrit autographe[Sartre’s Novels. Autograph Manuscript]

    1945|-|19 pages 1/2 in-8
    Autograph manuscript of the author of 19 pages and a half in-8 published in the October issue (No. 10) of L'Arche
    Complete two-sided manuscript, very dense writing, with many erasures, corrections and additions.

    Since the 1930s, Maurice Blanchot regularly devotes articles to Jean-Paul Sartre and especially to his novels. The publication of the first two volumes of the trilogy The paths of freedom was to give rise to the almost simultaneous publication of a rather short chronicle in Dimanche paysage (No. 19, October 21, 1945) and this large study, entitled "The Novels of Sartre ". This one, which goes beyond the circumscribed frame of the literary...
    €3,000
  76. Sade ou le Royaume de l'Unique [Quelques remarques sur Sade] - Manuscrit autographe complet
    Maurice BLANCHOT

    Sade ou le Royaume de l'Unique [Quelques remarques sur Sade] - Manuscrit autographe complet[Sade, or the Kingdom of the Unique [A Few Remarks on Sade] – Complete autograph manuscript]

    S. n.|s. l. S.d (1946)|-|en feuilles
    Complete autograph manuscript of 12 pages on 6 octavo leaves with a title difficult to decipher, perhaps: "Sade or the Kingdoms of the Unique" and which would appear under the title "Some Remarks on Sade" in Critique no. 3-4 of August-September 1946.
    Manuscript with very dense writing, containing numerous deletions, corrections and additions.

    "It is Sade's thought that pushes Blanchot's to its fulfillment, and it is also Blanchot's that fulfills that of Sade." (Georges Bataille)
    Bataille's writing and friendship are undoubtedly not unrelated to the importance that Blanchot would attach throughout his life to this tutelary figure of his philosophical...
    €2,300
  77. L'expérience de Proust. Manuscrit autographe complet
    Maurice BLANCHOT (Marcel PROUST)

    L'expérience de Proust. Manuscrit autographe complet[The Proust Experience. Complete Autograph Manuscript]

    1943|21 x 13 cm|en feuilles
    Autograph manuscript by the author, four and a half pages in octavo, published in the issue of Journal des Débats dated 12 May 1943.
    Complete recto-verso manuscript in a dense hand, featuring numerous deletions, corrections, and additions.
    A literary column written on the occasion of the publication of Ramon Fernandez’s book À la gloire de Proust.

    It was to Maurice Blanchot that his friend Emmanuel Levinas owed his discovery of the work of Marcel Proust, which he deeply admired despite Charles Maurras’s condemnation—a judgment that, at first, failed to turn him away from it. What Blanchot valued most in Proust was his at times fluid rhythm and his...
    €2,300
  78. Tradition et surréalisme. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
    Maurice BLANCHOT

    Tradition et surréalisme. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets[Tradition and Surrealism. Complete Autograph Manuscript and Typescript]

    S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1943]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 1/2 pages in-8
    Autograph manuscript by the author of 2 and a half quarto pages published in the December 23, 1943 issue of Journal des Débats.
    Complete manuscript in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions. The complete typescript is included.
    This article, one of the rare pieces to appear on the journal's front page, is an audacious critique of the traditionalist vision of Art, which, arguing for the necessary adequacy between Art and Truth, condemns Modernity. With implacable intellectual rigor, Blanchot demonstrates how this conception of "authentic Art" "joins exactly that of the surrealists" and cites one of the major...
    €1,500
  79. Voyages de Montesquieu. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.
    Maurice BLANCHOT

    Voyages de Montesquieu. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets. [Montesquieu’s Travels. Complete autograph manuscript and typescript]

    S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1943]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|4 1/2 pages in-8
    Autograph manuscript by the author of 4½ pages in-8 published in the September 8, 1943 issue of Journal des Débats.
    Complete manuscript with very dense handwriting, containing numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
    The complete typescript is included.
    Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of Les Voyages de Montesquieu, prefaced by Marcel Arland.
    This artificial collection of Montesquieu's travel notebooks gives Blanchot the opportunity to praise a form of "natural" writing, "pure of all concern for readership". These intimate notes indeed testify to an art of "concision [which] delivers [facts] to...
    €1,200
  80. Le baron d'Holbach. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
    Maurice BLANCHOT

    Le baron d'Holbach. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets[Baron d'Holbach. Complete autograph manuscript and typescript]

    S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1943]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|4 1/2 pages in-8
    Autograph manuscript by the author of 4½ pages in quarto published in the November 27-28, 1943 issue of Journal des Débats.
    Complete manuscript with very dense handwriting, containing numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
    Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of Paul Thiry d'Holbach et la philosophie scientifique au XVIIIe siècle by Pierre Naville.
    The complete typescript is included.
    Far more than a critique of Pierre Naville's work on Baron d'Holbach, this long article by Blanchot is a veritable philosophical pamphlet against the materialist thought of the Encyclopedists, whom he accuses of wanting to « know the world...
    €1,200
  81. Lettres à Requien. - Lettres inédites à Sutton Sharpe - In La revue de Paris N°10 de la 5ème année & In Le Mercure de France N°318 de la 21ème année
    Prosper MÉRIMÉE

    Lettres à Requien. - Lettres inédites à Sutton Sharpe - In La revue de Paris N°10 de la 5ème année & In Le Mercure de France N°318 de la 21ème année[Letters to Requien – Unpublished Letters to Sutton Sharpe – In La Revue de Paris, No. 10 (5th Year) & In Mercure de France, No. 318 (21st Year)]

    La Revue de Paris|Paris 1898 &1910|16.50 x 25 cm|2 volumes reliés
    First edition for each volume.
    Full brown morocco bindings, smooth spines double framed in gilt, headpieces lined in gilt, boards elaborately framed in gilt, beige morocco pastedowns framed in gilt, brown moiré silk free endpapers, following free endpapers in mould made paper, all edges gilt, original soft covers preserved, superb contemporary bindings signed by M. Lortic.
    The first volume contains two original ink drawings by Prosper Mérimée: the first, captioned and signed in the lower right corner depicting the Duke of Brunswick, the second a tree and a wooded landscape with a handwritten inscription in Russian "Grâce à Dieu" and "Gloire à Dieu, gloire à...
    €3,800
  82. 10 légendes en marge du livre
    Jean BRULLER [VERCORS] Samuel Ustazade SILVESTRE DE SACY

    10 légendes en marge du livre[Ten Legends in the Margin of the Book]

    Creuzevault frères|Paris 1930|20.50 x 27.50 cm|en feuilles sous chemise et étui
    Illustrated with original color etchings hors texte by Jean Bruller, one of 50 numbered copies on Japon impérial paper, the tirage de tête.
    With 11 original etchings, of which 1 frontispiece, as well as 10 original initials and 10 ornaments by Jean Bruller.
    This copy, like all copies of the tirage de tête, is complete with its suite of first-state etchings, its suite in black and white and an original drawing by Jean Bruller.
    Additionally, there is the third state of a rejected etching.
    Four small traces of adhesive paper to head and foot of endpapers, otherwise a fine copy.
    Rare.
    €1,200
  84. Dessin original à l'encre
    Max JACOB

    Dessin original à l'encreAuthentic original drawing in black ink, signed "Max".

    Douarnenez s. d. [1927]|21 x 27 cm|3|sur papier fin filigrané, encollé sur une feuille plus épaisse.
    Authentic original drawing in black ink, signed “Max”.
    This work was most likely executed in 1927 during a stay in Douarnenez at the house of his friend, the painter Jean Colle; also present was the latter's son Pierre Colle, who would become Max Jacob's dealer and close friend, before becoming executor of his will and overall heir.
    Two tiny tears to half a centimeter of the upper margin, otherwise very well preserved.
    Provenance : the personal collection of Philippe Laignel-Lavastine, a close friend of Max Jacob.
    €1,000
  86. "Vos essais aussi bien que vos articles de Combat, ont eu pour l'étudiant provincial que j'étais avant la guerre, une importance considérable..."
    Michel MOHRT

    "Vos essais aussi bien que vos articles de Combat, ont eu pour l'étudiant provincial que j'étais avant la guerre, une importance considérable..."[FRENCH ACADEMY] Admiring signed autograph letter addressed to Thierry Maulnier regarding his candidacy to the Académie française

    S.n. [Imprimerie universelle]|28 Mars 1985|21 x 29.50 cm|4 pages

    Autograph letter dated and signed by Michel Mohrt, four pages, addressed to Thierry Maulnier. 69 lines written in blue ink, notably discussing his candidacy for the Académie française to succeed Marcel Brion's vacant seat.
    Folds from original mailing. A paperclip holds the two sheets of the letter together.

    €300
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