<p>Signed books and manuscripts by the author of <em>Aurelien</em>,<em> Les Yeux d'Elsa</em>, <em>Le Roman inachev&eacute;</em>, <em>Le Fou d'Elsa</em>, <em>The Adventures of Telemachus</em>...</p>

Signed books and manuscripts by Louis Aragon

Signed books and manuscripts by the author of Aurelien, Les Yeux d'Elsa, Le Roman inachevé, Le Fou d'Elsa, The Adventures of Telemachus...

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Signed books and manuscripts by Louis Aragon
  1. Les collages - Exemplaire de Maurice Druon
    Louis ARAGON (inscribed to Maurice DRUON)

    Les collages - Exemplaire de Maurice Druon[The Collages – Maurice Druon's copy]

    Hermann|Paris 1965|11 x 21 cm|broché

    First edition, with no deluxe-paper copies printed.
    Illustrations.


    A handsome copy despite the slightly faded spine.


    Precious and fine signed presentation copy from Louis Aragon to Maurice Druon: "A Maurice Druon, pour qu'il sache que de temps je m'égarée dans Césarée. [sic] Louis".

    €600
  3. "Je me considère pour ce qui est de ce que j'écris, comme dépourvu de droit d'orienter ce qui s'écrit de moi"
    Louis ARAGON (to Hubert JUIN)

    "Je me considère pour ce qui est de ce que j'écris, comme dépourvu de droit d'orienter ce qui s'écrit de moi"Autograph letter signed by Louis Aragon to a critic on his work

    s. l. s. d. (circa 1967)|21 x 26.90 cm|une feuille
    Autograph letter signed by Louis Aragon, 11 lines plus 2 lines of postscript in blue ink, addressed to a critic around 1967.
    Folding marks inherent to the mailing of the letter.
    A moving letter from the poet who, in response to a biographer’s question, offers his impertinent correspondent a disillusioned reflection on the poet’s right to control interpretation: "Que vous dire ? Je ne puis vous conseiller dans le détail, ni m'amuser à rectifier ceci ou cela. Je me considère pour ce qui est de ce que j'écris, comme dépourvu de droit d'orienter ce qui s'écrit de moi, ce qui n'est que de peu précéder l'époque où on ne me demandera même plus on...
    €600
  4. La lumière de Stendhal
    Louis ARAGON

    La lumière de Stendhal

    Denoël|Paris 1954|12 x 19 cm|broché
    First edition, one of the review copies.
    A crease affecting the upper corner of the rear cover and the final leaves, an annotation by the recipient in pink ink at the top of the colophon page.
    A pleasing copy complete with the publisher’s announcement slip.
    Inscribed and signed by Louis Aragon to his friends Claude and Claire Roy.
    €300
  5. "Nose in the air, arms flying, with nonchalance, with joy, as Willy Ronis says... black shoes, a large hat, a wasp waist, skirt in the wind, and not the slightest idea what all this could be for, but all the sunshine of late April in the veil... and like Paris, absurdly inimitable."
    Une séance photo avec Willy Ronis
    Louis ARAGON (Willy RONIS)

    Une séance photo avec Willy RonisOriginal autograph manuscript

    s. d. [avril 1948]|21 x 30 cm|4 pages sur 4 feuillets
    Exceptional complete autograph manuscript by Louis Aragon. 4 pages in pencil on 4 leaves numbered in his hand. Discrete trace of rust discharge on the first leaf and on the verso of the last. Horizontal fold across all leaves.
    The article would be published under the title "L'Art de prendre une photo pour Les Lettres Françaises" (Regards, May 14, 1948).
    Aragon accompanies the great Willy Ronis during a photographic session for a fashion portrait for Les Lettres Françaises. Following in Ronis's footsteps as he directs his spinning model, the writer takes us through four pages across an enchanting Paris where...
    €4,500
  6. It has to be said that we are publishing here this masterpiece, deliberately ignored by those who write literary history and which makes existentialist teeth grind, or simply spoilt teeth, as an example, sure that it will not be in vain.
    Manuscrit original sur "L'Atelier d'un peintre", "qui fait grincer les dents existentialistes"
    Louis ARAGON (Marceline DESBORDES-VALMORE)

    Manuscrit original sur "L'Atelier d'un peintre", "qui fait grincer les dents existentialistes"

    s. d. [circa 1950]|21 x 30 cm|une page sur un feuillet
    Autograph manuscript by Louis Aragon, one page in blue ink on a leaf.

    Precious study by Louis Aragon accompanying the serial publication in Les Lettres Françaises of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore's novel L'Atelier d'un peintre (1833). Aragon rehabilitates the female poet-novelist canceled from the history of literature and snubbed by Existentialists, placing her in the tradition of socialist realism.

    ***


    Autograph manuscript by Louis Aragon, one page in blue ink on one leaf. Numerous crossed out words and rewritings. Slight rusting due to a paper clip, slight shadows of an ink transfer from another page. Published in Les Lettres Françaises, episode 16, 23...
    €2,800
  7. "Pour moi, l'amitié des assasins n'est pas l'amitié [...] tant pis si l'on me juge esclave, et qu'on me juge sans coeur !" (For me, the friendship of assassins is not friendship [...] too bad if I am judged a slave, and judged heartless!)
    " L'homme libre que je suis "
    Louis ARAGON

    " L'homme libre que je suis "Original manuscript of a Chronicle of Rain and Fine Weather

    s. d. [1948]|21 x 30 cm|8 pages et demi sur 9 feuillets
    Exceptional autograph manuscript by Louis Aragon entitled "Chronique de la pluie et du beau temps pour Europe (mai)". 8 and a half pages in blue ink on 9 uniformly browned leaves. Numerous deletions and rewritings. Published in Europe, no 29, May 1948, and does not appear in the book collecting these chronicles (E.F.R., 1979).
    Superb nine-page militant profession of faith, published in the anti-fascist literary review Europe. Aragon finds himself courted after the war, in the name of "friendship" and "freedom" by various reviews, but categorically refuses to publish alongside writers with Pétainist tendencies.
    The writer delivers his impressions after a radio...
    €5,800
  8. Le musée Grévin et autres poèmes
    Louis ARAGON

    Le musée Grévin et autres poèmes

    Les Editeurs Français Réunis|Paris 1946|12 x 17.50 cm|broché
    New edition.
    Handsome copy.
    Autograph inscription signed by Louis Aragon to Jean-Pierre Lecointre.

    €250
  9. Les communistes
    Louis ARAGON

    Les communistes

    La bibliothèque française|Paris 1949-1951|11.50 x 18.50 cm|6 volumes brochés
    First edition on ordinary paper for each of the volumes.
    Complete set in 6 volumes. Handsome copy (despite small corner lacks of no consequence to the boards) considering the poor quality of this paper.
    On the first volume, autograph inscription signed by Louis Aragon to Jacqueline Gillet enriched with the manuscript signatures of Yves Robert and Daniel Delorme.
    €400
  10. Le roman inachevé [L'affiche rouge]
    Louis ARAGON (Missak MANOUCHIAN)

    Le roman inachevé [L'affiche rouge]

    Gallimard|Paris 1956|14 x 19.50 cm|broché
    First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
    Spine sunned with two small lacks at head and foot, boards marginally sunned.
    This collection of poems contains the famous "Strophes pour se souvenir", a poem paying tribute to the members of the F.T.P. - M.O.I. of Missak Manouchian shot at Mont Valérien on February 21, 1944. This moving poem would be set to music and performed in 1959 by Léo Ferré under the title "L'affiche rouge" referring to the ignominious red poster displayed by the Vichy regime depicting the F.T.P.-M.O.I. as vulgar and criminal foreign terrorists.
    Autograph inscription signed by Louis Aragon to Jean Ballard who was the director of the literary...
    €750
  11. La mise à mort
    Louis ARAGON

    La mise à mort

    Gallimard|Paris 1965|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
    First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
    Spine very slightly sunned and creased without gravity, small stains on the second cover.
    Signed autograph inscription from Louis Aragon to the journalist Evelyne Schlumberger.




    €250
  12. L'enseigne de Gersaint
    Louis ARAGON

    L'enseigne de Gersaint

    Ides et Calendes|Neuchâtel • & Paris 1946|16.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
    First edition, one of the numbered copies on vellum, the only issue with 60 Ingres.
    The work illustrated with plates by Watteau.
    Handsome copy.
    Signed autograph inscription from Louis Aragon to Jeanne Moirond.
    €280
  13. La mise à mort
    Louis ARAGON

    La mise à mort

    Gallimard|Paris 1965|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
    First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
    Handsome copy.
    Precious and fine autograph inscription signed by Louis Aragon: "A Maurice Druon, s'il pouvait avoir patience de lire ce livre... Louis" ["To Maurice Druon, if he could have the patience to read this book... Louis"].
    €600
  14. Aux abords de Rome - Elégie à Romano
    Louis ARAGON, Hamid FOULADVIND

    Aux abords de Rome - Elégie à Romano[n the Outskirts of Rome – Elegy for Romano]

    Les Editeurs Français Réunis|Paris 1980|10.50 x 13.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
    First collected edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
    Publisher's full beige cloth binding, smooth spine, green paper endpapers and pastedowns.
    Work illustrated with drawings by Alexandre-Alecos Fassianos.
    Handsome copy.
    Autograph inscription signed by Louis Aragon to Christian Giudicelli: "A Christian Giudicelli de la part de deux amis de l'Italie..." ["To Christian Giudicelli from two friends of Italy..."] enriched with the signature of Hamid Foulâdvind.
    €300
  15. Entretiens avec Francis Crémieux
    Louis ARAGON, Francis CRÉMIEUX

    Entretiens avec Francis Crémieux

    Gallimard|Paris 1964|12 x 19 cm|broché
    First edition on ordinary paper.
    Handsome copy.
    Precious and fine autograph inscription signed by Louis Aragon to Maurice Druon: "A Maurice Druon, à l'homme invisible, son ami présent. Aragon" ["To Maurice Druon, to the invisible man, his present friend. Aragon"] with an additional autograph inscription signed by Francis Crémieux: "Ca va être ton tour. Ton creux frère. Francis." ["It's going to be your turn. Your hollow brother. Francis."]
    €600
  16. La culture et les hommes
    Louis ARAGON

    La culture et les hommes

    Editions sociales|Paris 1947|12 x 15.50 cm|broché
    The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
    Spine and boards marginally and lightly sunned, otherwise handsome copy.
    Autograph inscription signed by Louis Aragon to Micaëla Szekely.
    €300
  17. Lettre autographe signée
    Louis ARAGON

    Lettre autographe signée

    Grandcamp-les-Bains [Grandcamp-Maisy] s. d. [ca 1914-1920]|13.50 x 21 cm|une page sur un feuillet remplié
    Autograph letter signed addressed to a correspondent whom we have not been able to identify. Written from the Grand Hôtel de Grandcamp-les-Bains (Calvados) in blue ink on a folded sheet of white paper.
    A transverse fold inherent to the posting of the letter and four small perforations affecting the text but not impeding its reading.
    The mention of Grandcamp-les-Bains - where Aragon seems to have been only once during the summer of his seventeenth year - and the signature - of an early form - lead us to think that the letter could have been written in the summer of 1914. Philippe Forest, in his biography of Aragon, confirms that it was indeed at Grandcamp-les-Bains...
    €800
  18. Blanche ou l'oubli
    Louis ARAGON

    Blanche ou l'oubli

    Gallimard|Paris 1967|14.50 x 21 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 160 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies with 60 on Holland paper.
    Handsome copy despite some worming to the spine.
    Unsigned autograph inscription from Louis Aragon to Jacques Blumenthal.
    €480
  19. Le Yaouanc. Lithographies
    Alain LE YAOUANC, Louis ARAGON

    Le Yaouanc. Lithographies

    La pierre d'angle|Paris 1975|27 x 37 cm|en feuilles sous chemise à rabats
    First edition, one of 150 numbered copies on Arches vellum, the only deluxe copies.
    Rare and handsome copy.
    Text by Louis Aragon in French followed by its English translation.
    Work illustrated with lithographs by Alain Le Yaouanc.
    Manuscript signatures by Alain Le Yaouanc and Louis Aragon at the colophon.
    Our copy is complete, as stipulated in the justification page, with its original lithograph by Alain Le Yaouanc, which he justified and signed.


    €800
  20. Distiques pour une carmagnole de la Honte
    Louis ARAGON

    Distiques pour une carmagnole de la HonteAutograph poem : "Distichs for a Carmagnole of Shame”

    s. d. [1944-1945]|19.80 x 26.50 cm|une feuille sous étui-chemise

    Exceptionally rare autograph satirical poem by Louis Aragon, entitled Distiques pour une Carmagnole de la Honte, written between September 1944 and February 1945. 26 lines penned in black ink on a single leaf, with a note from the author in blue ink at the foot of the page.
    Our manuscript belongs to a group of thirteen poems composed during the first half of 1945, intended for publication in a poetry anthology (Aragon, published by Pierre Seghers in Paris, Collection “Poètes d’aujourd’hui” no. 2, 20 July 1945). It was sent by Aragon as a working copy to his editor and friend Claude Roy. This autograph poem is the only known...

    €5,000
  21. Les cavaliers
    Louis ARAGON (pref.) Iouri IANOVSKI

    Les cavaliers

    Gallimard|Paris 1957|14.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
    New edition of the French translation for which it was not drawn from great papers, mention of third edition.
    Back and flat slightly and marginally discolored and insolated without gravity.
    Presentation of Louis Aragon.
    Signed autograph of Louis Aragon to Julian Garavito.
    €200
  22. La mise à mort
    Louis ARAGON

    La mise à mort

    Gallimard|Paris 1965|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
    First edition on ordinary paper.
    Autograph inscription from Louis Aragon to Simone and Pierre Pinson.
    A good copy.
    €250
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