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Literary Manuscripts

Writers' autograph manuscripts, work drafts, handwritten notebooks, autograph poems, romantic manuscript fragments

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Literary Manuscripts
  1. Le Paradoxe d'Aytré - Manuscrit original et tapuscrit complets
    Maurice BLANCHOT

    Le Paradoxe d'Aytré - Manuscrit original et tapuscrit complets

    S. n.|s. l. 1949|13.50 x 21.50 cm
    Autograph manuscript by the author of 16 pages in-8 published in number 9 (June 1946) of Les Temps modernes and reprinted, slightly revised, in La Part du Feu (1949).
    Complete recto-verso manuscript, very densely written, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
    Accompanied by the complete typescript with autograph corrections in black ink.

    "Le Paradoxe d'Aytré" ["Aytré's Paradox"] is the first text by Maurice Blanchot that Jean-Paul Sartre published in the pages of Les Temps modernes, the spearhead of committed literature. Three others would follow until 1952 ("Le roman, œuvre de mauvaise foi" ["The Novel, a Work of Bad Faith"], "A...
    €2,800
  2. De la louange à la souveraineté. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
    Maurice BLANCHOT

    De la louange à la souveraineté. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets

    S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1943]|13.50 x 21 cm|4 1/2 pages in-8
    Autograph manuscript by the author, 4 and a half octavo pages, published in the June 2, 1943 issue of the Journal des Débats.
    Complete manuscript in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
    Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of Servius et la fortune by Georges Dumézil. The complete typescript is included.

    By devoting his study to Dumézil's work on Servius, Blanchot established a crucial milestone in the evolution of his own thought, the passage from political conviction to literary engagement.
    This reflection on sovereignty indeed led the former Maurrassian to reorient...
    €1,500
  3. Le mythe de Giraudoux. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.
    Maurice BLANCHOT (Jean GIRAUDOUX)

    Le mythe de Giraudoux. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.

    S. n. • [ Paysage dimanche]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1945]|11.50 x 22 cm|3 pages in-4
    Autograph manuscript by the author, 3 quarto pages, published in issue 17 of October 7, 1945 of the newspaper Le Paysage Dimanche. Complete manuscript in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
    Chronicle published on the occasion of the numerous studies on Giraudoux's work that appeared since his death in January 1944.
    The complete typescript is included.
    While the numerous references to his work in the articles of the Journal des Débats reveal Giraudoux's ascendancy over Blanchot, the latter nevertheless manifests a clear desire to free himself from this paternity. Thus he removes from Faux-Pas numerous...
    €1,500
  4. Une étude sur l'Apocalypse. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
    Maurice BLANCHOT

    Une étude sur l'Apocalypse. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets

    S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1945]|13.50 x 21 cm|4 1/2 pages in-8
    Autograph manuscript by the author of 4 and a half pages in-8 published in the issue of November 3, 1943 of Journal des Débats.
    Complete recto-verso manuscript, in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
    The complete typescript is included.
    Chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of L'Apocalypse de St Jean, vision chrétienne de l'histoire by Father H.M. Féret.

    From the outset, Maurice Blanchot, doing his job as a critic, praises the seriousness of the study conducted by Father Féret. But what interests him more than this careful orthodoxy are the powerful echoes of L'Apocalypse in the...
    €1,200
  5. A l'ombre du romanesque. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
    Maurice BLANCHOT (André DHÔTEL)

    A l'ombre du romanesque. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets

    S. n. • [ Paysage dimanche]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1945]|11.50 x 22 cm|3 pages 1/2 in-4
    Autograph manuscript by the author of 3 and a half pages in-4 published in number 23 of November 18, 1945 of Paysage Dimanche. Complete manuscript in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions. Literary chronicle of André Dhôtel's work. The complete typescript is included.
    When the apostle of silence in literature speaks of the novelist of the invisible, this produces a strange apology for a work « destinée à sauver [...] l'essence du romanesque, sa vie pure et secrète », « passionnante jusque dans sa monotonie, selon le rythme des plus belles histoires romanesques où il ne se passe rien, mais où l'imprévu est toujours imminent. »...
    €1,200
  6. Nouvelles et récits. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
    Maurice BLANCHOT (Claude ROY)

    Nouvelles et récits. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets

    S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1944]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 1/2 pages in-8
    Autograph manuscript by the author of 2 and a half octavo pages published in the April 20, 1944 issue of Journal des Débats. Complete manuscript with very dense writing, containing numerous strikethroughs, corrections and additions. Literary chronicle on the work of Claude Roy. The complete typescript is included.
    This critique of La Mer à boire by Claude Roy is at once a detailed analysis of each short story and a poetic hymn to the poet's writing: "Le style de Claude Roy répond à merveille à ce jeu de nuances : il est lui aussi plein d'échos qui s'évanouissent, de mots qui se répercutent: il est libre, discipliné, tout en inventions et fidèle à la réalité qu'il...
    €1,200
  7. Le souci de sincérité. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
    Maurice BLANCHOT (Yvon BELAVAL)

    Le souci de sincérité. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets

    S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1944]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 1/2 pages in-8
    Autograph manuscript by the author of 2 and a half pages in-4 published in the March 2, 1944 issue of Journal des Débats. Complete manuscript with very dense writing, containing numerous strikethroughs, corrections and additions. Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication, in the new collection of Gallimard editions devoted to "La Jeune Philosophie," of the work "Le souci de sincérité" by Yvon Belaval. The complete typescript is included.

    Under Blanchot's pen, philosophical criticism acquires its own autonomy which makes it impossible to distinguish between Belaval's original thought and the luminous interpretation that Maurice Blanchot offers of it, in a few...
    €1,500
  8. Le roman de Jean-Paul Sartre - Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.
    (Jean-Paul SARTRE) Maurice BLANCHOT

    Le roman de Jean-Paul Sartre - Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.

    S. n. • [ Paysage dimanche]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1945]|11.50 x 22 cm|3 pages 1/2 in-4
    Autograph manuscript by the author of 3½ pages octavo published in the October 21, 1945 issue (no. 19) of Paysage dimanche.
    Complete recto-verso manuscript, very densely written, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
    Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of the first two volumes of Jean-Paul Sartre's trilogy Les chemins de la liberté: "L'Age de raison" and "Le Sursis".
    The complete typescript is included, with one deletion and one autograph correction by the author.

    When this chronicle appeared in autumn 1945, Maurice Blanchot and Jean-Paul Sartre had already demonstrated mutual interest in their respective...
    €3,000
  9. Romans nouveaux. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
    Maurice BLANCHOT

    Romans nouveaux. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets

    S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1942]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|4 1/2 pages in-8
    Autograph manuscript by the author of 4½ pages octavo published in the December 23, 1942 issue of Journal des Débats.
    Complete recto-verso manuscript, very densely written, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
    The complete typescript is included.
    Chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of four new novels: Les Hommes forts by Georges Magnane, Le Vent se lève by Marius Grout, Clément by Maurice Toesca and Si le ciel tombe by Roger de Lafforest.

    At the end of 1942, Maurice Blanchot reviews current literary events and provides uncompromising criticism of four novels by Georges Magnane, Marius...
    €1,000
  10. Journal sans épisodes. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
    Maurice BLANCHOT

    Journal sans épisodes. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets

    S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1944]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 1/2 pages in-8
    Autograph manuscript by the author of 2½ pages in-8 published in the February 10, 1944 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 Jean Dumay's "Journal de guerre".
    The complete typescript is included.
    Between April 1941 and August 1944, Maurice Blanchot published 173 articles on recently published books in the "Chronique de la vie intellectuelle" of Journal des Débats.
    In half a newspaper page (approximately seven pages in-8), the young author of "Thomas l'obscur" takes his first steps in the field of literary...
    €1,200
  11. Les plaintes de l'ombre. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.
    Maurice BLANCHOT

    Les plaintes de l'ombre. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.

    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, 2½ pages octavo, published in the December 10, 1943 issue of the Journal des Débats. Complete manuscript in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions. Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of Passage de l'homme by Marius Grout, winner of the 1943 Prix Goncourt. Accompanied by the complete typescript.
    Blanchot's critique of this future Prix Goncourt winner is not gentle, although he perfectly grasps its stakes. This story whose tragic unfolding ends in a deception that creates a new faith contains, for Blanchot, an equivocal moral.
    "We understand what Marius Grout seeks to show...
    €1,200
  12. Le pèlerinage aux sources - Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.
    Maurice BLANCHOT

    Le pèlerinage aux sources - Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.

    S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1944]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 1/2 pages in-8

    Autograph manuscript by the author, 2½ pages octavo, published in the January 13, 1944 issue of the Journal des Débats.
    Complete recto-verso manuscript, in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
    Accompanied by the complete typescript, with one autograph correction in black ink.

    Chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of Le pèlerinage aux sources by Joseph Lanza del Vasto.

    This chronicle by Maurice Blanchot forms an astonishing echo to one of his very first published texts (1931), devoted to Gandhi's Memoirs, which already contained the essence of his thought from the 1930s...
    €1,200
  13. D'un roman à l'autre. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.
    Maurice BLANCHOT

    D'un roman à l'autre. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.

    S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1944]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 1/2 pages in-8
    Autograph manuscript by the author of 2 and a half octavo pages published in the January 20, 1944 issue of Journal des Débats. Complete manuscript in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions. Literary chronicle on the literary current events of the moment. The complete typescript is included.

    "The subject is not limited to the plot: it depends equally on incidents of language, details of composition and, even more, on those images that reveal the meaning of creation; the subject of a novel is above all the world it brings to birth."

    This principle of the novelistic art could just as well apply to the chronicle it...
    €1,000
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. Les treize formes d'un roman. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.
    Maurice BLANCHOT

    Les treize formes d'un roman. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.

    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 2½ pages in-4 published in the May 26, 1943 issue of Journal des Débats. Complete manuscript with very dense handwriting, containing numerous deletions, corrections and additions. The complete typescript is included.
    Each chapter of Roland Cailleux's novel, Saint-Genès ou la vie brève, presents a different narrative form. This gives Blanchot the opportunity to return to the interest of this literary audacity initiated a few years earlier by Joyce: "The novel showed itself there with all its possibilities, it metamorphosed into everything it could be."
    Between April 1941 and August 1944, Maurice Blanchot published 173...
    €1,200
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. Le Dîner de Madelon 1933-1934
    André-Ferdinand HEROLD

    Le Dîner de Madelon 1933-1934

    S. n.|Paris 1933-1934|34pp. in-4|en feuilles
    Complete autograph manuscript of 34 pages written on the recto in black ink, dated on the first page: Paris - December 9, 1933.
    Comedy in verse, in 13 scenes, featuring three characters: Madelon, Benoît and Vincent.
    Accompanied by the typescript of the play.
    €350
  20. La Jolie dévote, 1917
    André-Ferdinand HEROLD

    La Jolie dévote, 1917

    S. n.|Paris • - Lapras • - Mauves 1917|in-4|en feuillets
    Complete and unpublished autograph manuscript of 62 pages written and foliated on the recto in black ink. Some autograph deletions and corrections by the author.
    Dated Paris July 15, 1915, Mauves August 12-13, 1917 and Lapras August 28, 1917 on the autograph chemise.
    Unpublished comedy in two acts and in verse, originally titled Le Bien et le Mal. The action takes place in Spain and features Leonore, her husband Cazalbas, her lover Ribaldos, and her attendant Ines.
    €500
  21. Esope, 1923-1925
    André-Ferdinand HEROLD

    Esope, 1923-1925

    S. n.|Paris • - Mauves-sur-Loire 1923-1925|(2) 74pp. in-4|en feuillets
    Complete and unpublished autograph manuscript of 74 pages written and foliated in black ink on the recto and protected in a cardboard chemise indicating the title. Some autograph deletions and corrections by the author.
    Unpublished drama in 4 acts and in verse.
    The action takes place in Lydia in the 4th century BC. The play features Aesop, his mistress Rhodope, King Croesus and his ministers.
    Accompanying is a small file of the play's scenario, in another hand or typewritten, probably relating to the opera libretto.
    €500
  22. La Charlézenn, 1897
    André-Ferdinand HEROLD

    La Charlézenn, 1897

    S. n.|s. l. 1897|(2) 70pp. (2) in-8|en feuillets
    Complete autograph manuscript, 70 pages, in black ink, with and marked with their folio number to the recto.
    €350
  23. Procris, 1902
    André-Ferdinand HEROLD

    Procris, 1902

    S. n.|s. l. 1902|6pp. in-4|en feuillets
    Autograph manuscript of 6 pages written in black ink and foliated on the recto. Some manuscript corrections by the author, dated 14 March 1902 at top right of the first leaf.
    Act I in verse featuring the mythological lovers Cephalus and Procris.
    €80
  24. Bradamante, 1910
    André-Ferdinand HEROLD

    Bradamante, 1910

    S. n.|s. l. 1910|23pp. in-4|en feuillets
    Autograph manuscript of 23 pages written in black ink and foliated on the recto. Autograph wrapper bearing the title, date and place: Paris - 24 October 1910.
    First act of this tragicomedy in verse.
    Accompanied by a small file of notes.
    €150
  25. La vie de Sainte Aphrodise
    André-Ferdinand HEROLD

    La vie de Sainte Aphrodise

    S. n.|s. l. [c.1904]|45pp. in-4|en feuillets
    Complete autograph manuscript of 45 pages written in black ink and foliated on the recto.
    Numerous crossings-out and corrections.
    Draft of the beginning of the novel L'Abbaye de Sainte Aphrodise (Mercure de France, 1904).
    €200
  26. Cléopâtre
    André-Ferdinand HEROLD

    Cléopâtre

    S. n.|s. l. [1921]|87pp. in-4|en feuillets
    Autograph manuscript of 87 pages written in black ink and foliated on the recto. Numerous crossings-out and autograph corrections by the author.
    Partial manuscript of this five-act drama in verse after Plutarch and Shakespeare, first performed at the Comédie française on 22 May 1921.
    Accompanied by 4 tableaux in professional copy with corrections and important autograph additions.
    €250
  27. Les Uns et les autres
    André-Ferdinand HEROLD

    Les Uns et les autres

    S. n.|s. l. 1896-1925|in-4|en feuillets
    Autograph manuscript. Autograph wrapper showing two deletions.
    A collection of 8 ballads, epistles or sonnets, 1896-1907. A collection of 10 poems, 1915-1917. Draft for the Tales of Herodotus, Mauves-sur-Loire, April 9, 1925.
    €200
  28. Dans la nuit, 1911
    André-Ferdinand HEROLD

    Dans la nuit, 1911

    S. n.|s. l. 1911|44pp. in-4|en feuillets
    Complete autograph manuscript of 44 pages written in black ink and foliated on the recto. Autograph wrapper bearing the title and several dates: Paris - Monday May 24, 1911, Paris - Thursday November 9, 1911 and Revision, Lapras - Tuesday August 20, 1911. Some autograph corrections by the author in pencil and blue pencil.
    Complete manuscript of a three-act play which appears to have remained unpublished.
    €350
  29. La Chimère, 1911-1914
    André-Ferdinand HEROLD

    La Chimère, 1911-1914

    S. n.|s. l. 1911-1914|50pp. in-4|en feuillets
    Complete autograph manuscript of 50 pages written in black ink and foliated on the recto. Fragment of autograph wrapper bearing the crossed-out title and two dates: Paris - Thursday March 9, 1911 and Paris - Saturday April 25, 1914. Some deletions and corrections.
    This is an unpublished tragedy in verse.
    €400
  30. Portraits et paysages Manuscrit complet
    Francis NORGELET

    Portraits et paysages Manuscrit complet

    S. n.|s. l. 1918|23.50 x 32 cm|agrafé
    Autograph manuscript, 24 pages, final and complete version written by the author in a 48-page notebook which he offered to one of his friends.
    Autograph inscription dated January 29, 1919 and signed by the author on the front cover as a gift to this friend. This collection was previously published by Rieder & Cie in 1918.
    Included are press clippings as well as 4 autograph letters signed by the author and addressed to the same recipient, 2 of which were written while the dedicatee was in the trenches.
    Handsome ensemble.
    €450
  31. Antigone, 1929
    André-Ferdinand HEROLD

    Antigone, 1929

    S. n.|Paris • - Lapras 1929|(2) 49pp. in-4|en feuilles
    Complete autograph manuscript of 49 pages written and foliated in black ink on the recto.
    Some autograph corrections by the author. Autograph cover bearing the title and dates: Paris - 4 July 1929 and Lapras - 22 August 1929.
    Unpublished adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy, in three acts and in verse.
    €350
  32. Oreste d'Euripide, 1935-1937.
    André-Ferdinand HEROLD

    Oreste d'Euripide, 1935-1937.

    S. n.|Paris 1935-1937|(2) 67pp. in-4|en feuilles
    Complete unpublished autograph manuscript of 67 pages written and foliated in black ink on the recto. Autograph cover bearing the title and dates: Paris - 25 October 1935 and Paris - 21 April 1937. Stage directions in red ink and some autograph corrections by the author.
    Unpublished prose adaptation of Euripides' Greek tragedy.
    Accompanied by a small folder of autograph notes and drafts in pencil, the Histoire d'Oreste, dated Lapras - 22 July 1922.
    €500
  33. Les Sept contre Thèbes
    André-Ferdinand HEROLD

    Les Sept contre Thèbes

    S. n.|Paris 1932|(5) 67pp. in-4|en feuilles
    Complete autograph manuscript of 28 pages written in black ink and foliated on the recto. Autograph chemise bearing the title, dates and place: Paris - 22 April 1932 and Paris - 28 May 1932.
    Translation of Aeschylus in prose, a first version of which had been published in Mercure de France in 1909.
    €350
  34. La Reine Peau d'Âne, comédie en trois actes, 1897-1898
    André-Ferdinand HEROLD

    La Reine Peau d'Âne, comédie en trois actes, 1897-1898

    S. n.|s. l. 1897-1898|70pp. in-4|en feuilles
    Autograph manuscript of 70 pages written on the recto in black ink with important deletions, corrections and suppressions. Paper cover bearing the title, date and place (Paris 7 December 1897 - 6 January 1898).
    Unpublished comedy in verse and prose, featuring Claridiane, Queen of Bohemia, Lélio, Prince Escalus, Arlequin, master of ceremonies, Colombine, lady-in-waiting, plus five ministers and Illyrian officers; the scene is set in Bohemia.
    €600
  35. Elle est charmante, comédie en trois actes, 1899-1900
    André-Ferdinand HEROLD

    Elle est charmante, comédie en trois actes, 1899-1900

    S. n.|Paris 1899-1900|77pp. in-4|en feuilles
    Complete and unpublished autograph manuscript of 77 pages written and numbered on the recto in black ink.
    Paper cover bearing the title, date and place Paris 12 December 1899 - 12 January 1900. Some autograph corrections by the author.
    Unpublished comedy in prose; the action takes place in the contemporary period, in Paris and in the forest of Fontainebleau; it features a dramatic author, a charming actress, a provincial journalist...
    €500
  36. Le dialogue de la vie et de la mort
    Innocenzio RINGHIERI, Jean LOUVEAU

    Le dialogue de la vie et de la mort

    1865|-|relié
    Original manuscript of this translation of Ringhieri's work (in Tuscan) by Jean Louveau, published in Lyon by Antoine Vollant in 1562. Transcription by Abbé Delaporte.
    Elegant manuscript on blue laid paper, in black ink. The epistle to the pastor of Vaugirard in Nantes is dated 1865. Fine, very legible handwriting.
    Contemporary half red morocco binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 5 fleurons. Gilt title. Light rubbing. Good copy.
    The transcriber possessed a copy of the 1562 edition; the first had appeared in 1557. Seven dialogues bring Life and Death face to face in an exchange that owes more to Christian stoicism, to a philosophical and humanist meditation rather...
    €400
  37. Philosophia
    Père MOTET

    Philosophia

    1731|15.50 x 24 cm|relié
    Original manuscript (anonymous) of this Latin philosophy course dictated by Father Motet; this manuscript has been enriched with a number of illustrations including a portrait, a frontispiece, and 11 others. The plates illustrate different aspects of logic or philosophy, but we have been unable to determine which work they're taken from. The frontispiece bears the legend “Chez I. F. Cars, 1710. Epitre au cardinal de Berulle, avec son portrait”.
    Contemporary speckled calf, spine in compartments richly gilt. Gilt title framed by two roulettes. A good copy.
    A good hand, fine and legible, with a relatively spacious layout on the page, recording a course on the various...
    €1,000
  38. La nef
    Élémir BOURGES

    La nef[The Nave]

    Stock|Paris 1904|12 x 19 cm|relié sous étui

    First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on Hollande, the only large paper copies.
    Elegant red morocco binding by Semet & Plumelle, spine in five compartments, date at foot, gilt roulettes to head- and tail-pieces, red moiré silk pastedowns, marbled endpapers thereafter, gilt fillets to edges of covers, covers and spine (slightly soiled) preserved, top edge gilt; slipcase edged in the same morocco, the boards of the same marbled paper, lined with light brown felt.
    This copy is enriched with two autograph notes from the author.
    A very good, well-margined copy, superbly bound in an outstanding lined binding by Semet & Plumelle. 

    €600
  39. 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
  40. L'enfant d'Austerlitz
    Paul ADAM

    L'enfant d'Austerlitz

    Sté. d'Editions Artistiques & Littéraires|Paris 1902|12 x 19 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe copy.
    A lack at the foot of the second cover, otherwise a very handsome copy.
    Our copy includes a page from the manuscript of the work and the author's autograph signature opposite.
    €150
  42. Lettre autographe signée à son ami Georges Raillard enrichie de trois dessins originaux dont deux sur l'enveloppe jointe
    Louis PONS

    Lettre autographe signée à son ami Georges Raillard enrichie de trois dessins originaux dont deux sur l'enveloppe jointe

    S. n.|Paris 28 Octobre 2008|20 x 20.50 cm|une feuille
    Signed autograph letter from a page by Louis Pons, to his friend the art critic Georges Raillard, specialist in the works of Joan Miro and Antoni Tapies, about a work on Monticelli that he recently received from a their mutual friend and for whom Georges Raillard wrote the text.
    On the attached envelope which he recomposed in his fanciful and ornithological manner, Louis Pons drew, in black ink, on the front and on the back, two curious beasts: a magpie in a tail coat and a rat of which just the head and the tail emerge from the envelope, the place of its body being crossed by a nail.
    Finally, on the sidelines of the handwritten letter, Louis Pons drew a character of...
    €300
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