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Lawrence DURRELL

Carte postale autographe inédite signée de Lawrence Durrell à son amante française : "je n'aime ...

22 juillet 1970, 14,6x10,1cm, une feuille.

After many years spent in Greece, Egypt and Rhodes, travel writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to independence. With only a shirt and a typewriter, but with the success of his Bitter Lemons novels, he arrived in France in 1956 and [...]

350 €

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Honoré D'ESTIENNE D'ORVES & Guillain de BENOUVILLE

Vie exemplaire du commandant d'Estienne d'Orves - Papiers, carnets et lettres

Plon, Paris 1950, 13,5x21,5cm, broché.

First Edition, one of 52 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, ours one of 12 out of trade, only leading copies.
Preface by Guillain de Bénouville.
Two small insolations in the head and foot of the back, otherwise nice copy at all margins.
 

300 €

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Guy de MAUPASSANT

Manuscrit autographe à la Comtesse Potocka : « Vous prenez un chien enragé que vous faites ...

s.l. s.d. [juillet-août 1885], 9,6x15,5cm, une feuille.

Autograph manuscript by Guy de Maupassant to Countess Potocka, 36 lines in ink on one page. Horizontal fold at center. Published in Philippe Dahhan, "Guy de Maupassant et les femmes : essai", Bertout, 1996.
Unusual manuscript by Maupassant, giving a false rabies vaccine formula he calls [...]

3 800 €

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Jean DUBUFFET & Claude SIMON

Correspondance 1970-1984

L'Echoppe, Paris 1994, 12x18,5cm, broché.

First edition on current paper.
Nice copy.
Autograph signed by Claude Simon to his friend Georges Raillard.







 

100 €

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Jean BERCHER

Lettres d'amour à Helen

Emile-Paul frères, Paris 1924, 12,5x19cm, broché.

First edition of the French translation, one of 1500 copies on "pur-fil" paper, only leading copies after 45 Holland paper.
Pleasant copy despite tiny gaps in the head and foot of the back very slightly insolated.
 

30 €

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Jean RICARDOU

Lettre autographe signée

Cannes 12 juillet 1972, 21x29,7cm, une feuille avec enveloppe.

Autograph letter signed by Jean Ricardou Georges Raillard, literary critic and specialist painters Antoni Tapies and Joan Miro.
18 lines in black felt, envelope attached.
Ricardou talks to his audience at a future symposium: " It is nice to respond [...]

80 €

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Jean RICARDOU

Lettre autographe signée

8 septembre 1973, 21x29,7cm, une feuille avec enveloppe.

Autograph letter signed by Jean Ricardou Georges Raillard, literary critic and specialist painters Antoni Tapies and Joan Miro.
18 lines in black felt, envelope attached.
Ricardou talks to his audience at a future symposium: " It is nice to respond [...]

80 €

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Michel BUTOR

Lettre autographe signée à Georges Raillard

février 1974, 18,6x27cm, une feuille, enveloppe jointe.

Letter autograph signed by Michel Butor to Georges Raillard, dated February 1974. 55 lines written in black pen on a sheet. Envelope attached.
Michel Butor speaks from Albuquerque (New Mexico) to Georges Raillard, literary critic and specialist of Spanish painters Antoni Tapies and Joan Miro.
 

200 €

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