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George SAND

Lettre autographe à Gustave Flaubert : "Étroniforme est le mot sublime qui classe cette espèce ...

Nohant 21 décembre 1867, 13,4x20,7cm, deux feuillets sous chemise et étui.

Autograph letter from George Sand to Gustave Flaubert dated December 21, 1867, 8 pages on two lined leaves. Published in Sand's Correspondance, XX, pp. 642-645.
From one of the finest literary correspondences of the century, [...]

10 000 €

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Victor HUGO & Adèle HUGO

Lettre autographe signée à la veuve du sculpteur David d'Angers : "Mon exil est comme voisin de ...

Hauteville House 11 et 13 mai 1856, 14x21,5cm, une feuille.

Lettre autographe signée de Victor Hugo datée du 13 mai 1856 à la suite d'une lettre inédite de Madame Victor Hugo à Madame David d'Angers datée du 11 mai. 4 pages sur un feuillet remplié à filigrane "Barbet Smith Street Guernesey".
Publiée dans Correspondance de Victor Hugo, [...]

7 500 €

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Prosper MERIMEE

Lettres à une inconnue

Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1874, In-8 (14,5x21,8cm), 364pp. et 373pp., relié.

first edition. The first edition was so quickly sold out that a new one had to be made a few months later.
Vintage half shagreen red binding. Back with nerves decorated with 3 finials and cold fillets, title and golden number. Some traces of friction. Beautiful copy, almost free from foxing, [...]

550 €

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Jean-Jacques Paul Félix RESSAYRE

Lettres d'un lieutenant-colonel de Dragons à la guerre de Crimée

Maison d'édition et imprimerie moderne, Agen 1910, 16,5x25,5cm, relié.

first edition printed in small numbers on laid by Canon A. Durengues.
Binding in half tan sheepskin with corners, back with five nerves decorated with golden and decorated double boxes, golden date in tail, framing of double golden threads on the marbled paper boards, guards and counterplates [...]

150 €

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Paul LEAUTAUD

Lettres à Marie Dormoy

Albin Michel, Paris 1966, 15x21,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on pure Madagascar thread, head print.
Bookplate pasted on the back of the first cover.
Tiny foxinges on the head without consequence, preserved witnesses, beautiful copy.

500 €

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Lawrence DURRELL

Carte postale autographe signée adressée à Jani Brun : "je suis vraiment navré pour le voyage"

Sommières 16 septembre 1971, 17,9x12,8cm, un feuillet.

Autograph letter signed by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun, written in blue felt tip pen.
The writer gives his news to his young French lover: "I'm going to Geneva for 10 days to have my expertise assessed for my psychosome exema [sic] and discuss a script. Am happy because the [...]

50 €

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Lawrence DURRELL

Carte postale autographe signée adressée à Jani Brun : "m[ake] great haste"

Sommières 2 février 1970, 8,7x12,7cm, une carte postale, enveloppe jointe.

Autograph postcard signed by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun, written in black felt on the back of a black and white view of the interior of the temple of Diana in Nîmes. Envelope attached.

60 €

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Lawrence DURRELL

Carte postale autographe signée adressée à Jani Brun : "je tripote des livres, des nuages, des ...

Sommières 10 novembre 1969, 13,9x10,1cm, une carte postale, enveloppe jointe.

Signed autograph postcard addressed to Jani Brun, written in black felt pen on the back of a humorous drawing. Envelope attached.

200 €

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