‎Autographs‎

‎CAMPAGNE (Jean-Marc).‎

‎CARZOU.‎

‎Paris, Flammarion, 1981. Petit in-4 (21 x 28 cm), cartonnage bradel, 96 pp. Carzou écrit en rouge sur le premier plat et le dos. Photographie en frontispice, (portrait de Carzou). Bibliographie, liste des livres illustrés et table des illustrations. Bibliographie, liste des livres illustrés et table des illustrations. (62 planches en noir en couleurs hors-texte). Exemplaire enrichi d'un envoi autographe de Carzou.‎

‎CAMPAGNE DE SAXE - Camille TREZEL - général et homme d’Etat (1780- 1860), qui devait connaître la célébrité en rejoignant comme volontaire les Grecs insurgés contre les Turcs en 1823.‎

‎Lettre autographe signée au « chef d’escadron Fabvier, aide de camp de S. Ex. le Maréchal Duc de Raguse ». Leipzig, 15 mars 1813. 3 pp. in-4. Avec adresse et restes de cachet de cire rouge.‎

‎Longue et très intéressante lettre dans laquelle Trézel alors officier, parle de la conduite de la campagne. « L’Empereur nous a gâtés par trop de victoires, aujourdhuy peu d’hommes savent faire une retraite avec calme et sérénité.... Pourtant on commence à se rasseoir, grâce à la prudence et à l’excellent esprit du chef. Le soldat vit bien et voit ici des visages moins haineux. Nous sommes en état de nous battre et de disputer le terrain pied à pied jusqu’à ce qu’on fasse courir vers leur frontière ces orangs outans du Nord qui paraissent commencer à s’effrayer de se voir si loin de leurs tannières. Je suis enchanté que votre maréchal (Marmont) puisse être de cette chasse...Nous n’avons rejoint S. A. I. que depuis quelques jours étant partis de Posen avec le 4ème corps pour aller s’établir à Glogau ...». Suivent de nombreux détails propres à cette campagne et en post-scriptum, Trezel ajoute : « On désigne ici votre Duc (Marmont) pour la place que vous croyez devoir être donnée au Mal Soult. Moi je crois que l’ancien aimera mieux se faire enterrer sur un grand chemin que de quitter la partie... ».‎

Bookseller reference : 72C26

‎CAMPANA (François-Frédéric)‎

‎Armée d'Italie. B. A. S.‎

‎Padoue, 12 vendémiaire an VI (3 octobre 1797) in-8, une page, en feuille. Petit manque de papier.‎

‎Petit billet écrit au nom du général Masséna dont le Turinois Francesco Frederico Campana (1771-1807) devait devenir l'aide de camp en février 1798 : "J'invite le gouvernement à vouloir bien faire passer la ci-incluse à la destination par voie sûre". La pièce concernée n'est pas jointe.‎

Bookseller reference : 219433

‎CAMPANNA - Armée d'Italie‎

‎Rapport sur l'etat du Piemont pour l'etat- major français; 17 juillet 1794, manuscrit‎

‎1794 in4 broché,manuscrit; 28 pages manuscrites,fortes mouillures, sous chemise kraft avec inscriptions posterieures,à destination de Massena ?-‎

‎CAMPANNA réfugié politique piemontais‎

Bookseller reference : 27635

‎CAMPBELL Bruce 1909 95‎

‎Signature‎

‎Outfielder who debuted with the Chicago White Sox in 1930 retiring from the Washington Senators in 1942. Bold signature in black medium-point marker heavy stock 5" X 3" card n.p. n.y. Near fine. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 19719

‎CAMPBELL Robert‎

‎Jean-Paul Sartre ou une littérature philosophique‎

‎Editions Pierre Ardent, Paris 1945, 12x19cm, broché.‎

‎Edition originale, un des exemplaires du service de presse. Envoi autographe signé de Robert Campbell à Henri Soubeyron. Piqûres marginales sur les plats. - Photos sur www.Edition-originale.com -‎

Bookseller reference : 56761

‎CAMPBELL, MARTIN & BOSWELL‎

‎Manuscript - Solicitors' Letter Book - 170 Draft Documents Pertaining to Dalquharran Castle and Kennedy Estate, Foreign Investments in Australia and a Fascinating Link to Poet Robert Burns‎

‎Edinburgh, 1893. Letter Book Archive of draft documents made by the law firm Campbell, Martin & Boswell, for private estates and business agreements, neatly preserved in a custom binding, featuring little known details relating to the Dalquharran Castle and Kennedy estate, Scottish investments and links to Australia, and a fascinating connection to the renowned poet Robert Burns by way of a lease made with his descendent for a mansion estate which he, too, had personally visited. 8vo. Approximately 170 documents, most in manuscript and some in typescript, 1166 pages combined, with a scant few integral blanks, plus unpaginated manuscript index listed alphabetically by document type. Very large volume measuring 23 x 35 x 9 cm (WxHxD) and weighing 10 pounds. Quarter calf over brown cloth boards labelled in gilt to spine, original marbled endpapers. Bookbinder's label to front pastedown (Caldwell Brothers of Edinburgh). Very good condition, an excellent depository volume of legal and historical interest. The firm Campbell, Martin & Boswell, consisted of three solicitors, each with the title and privileges of "Writers to the Signet", John Douglas Boswell, W.S.; Patrick William Campbell, W.S.; and Francis John Martin, W.S., the latter of whom became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1892. Their office was at 1 North Charlotte Street in Edinburgh, which was the same address as the Royal Bank of Scotland, and situated very near to Charlotte Square. Scots law and legal proceedings of the late nineteenth century, much of which differ today, are well illustrated in this archive of original working documents executed by accomplished patrician lawyers representing some discriminating and aristocratic clients. Many of the documents deal with property conveyance and estate matters, and represent traditions no longer observed, including the obsolete " Trust Disposition and Settlement" procedure for claiming an inheritance. Other documents include assignations, land conveyances, bond and disposition in security, deeds of assumption and discharges, estate inventories, a search for deeds with the Register of Sasines, leases, loan proposals for purchasing commercial space in Edinburgh, records of monetary investments in Highland Railway (HR), Jamaican plantations, property to let in Scotland, Australian banks, and so forth. So exclusive and intertwined were the upper class and wealthy, perhaps not large in number, but surely powerful in society, some interesting genealogical and business connections can be made from examining these papers. Many clients are also relations to the solicitors who often acted as trustees. In one case, we find a multi-generational connection between the Campbell and Burns families, beginning with the Jamaica sugar plantation owner Patrick Douglas and Scotland's celebrated national poet Robert Burns (1759-1796). In addition, these documents shed light on the leasing history of the Dalquharran Castle in South Ayrshire, which included hunting rights for at least one resident, as well as the Kennedy family's monetary investments in Australia. Interesting to note, one of the lawyers from this firm, Mr. Campbell, is related through marriage to the castle's then most recent owner, Mr. Francis Thomas Romilly Kennedy (died in 1892). Some items of special interest: • A twenty page lease agreement was issued to a Glasgow coalmaster named Robert Burns (1844-1896), who was the great-great-grandson and namesake of the famous poet and lyricist Robert Burns (1759-1796) - who had visited the very same Mansion House of Garrallan in his day, being a friend of its proprietor at the time, Dr. Patrick Douglas. A fascinating and detailed document, the lessors were concerned with mining royalties, minerals specifically deemed as belonging to the Marquis of Bute, and minerals raised at the mansion house. [Garrallan was owned by the Campbell family until 1676. The Douglas family followed but it became extinct in the male line. Dr. Patrick Douglas, who died 1819, also owned property in Jamaica and in 1786 he offered Robert Burns a position as a bookkeeper in Port Antonio, but the poet declined. Burns was a visitor at Garrallan. Jane Douglas married Hamilton Boswell and this family retained it until 1914 when it was sold to the Stevenson family of Changue, who still own the property.] • Another fascinating document is headed "Notes on Titles of Charlotte Square," now a World Heritage Site situated in Edinburgh. In this we find reference to feudal tenancy and particulars of construction. Excerpts from the document: "Charter by the Magistrates & Town Council of Edinburgh in favour of Alexander Stevens dated 1st June 1803... no buildings are to be erected... on the foresaid back ground... that the area of the square within the line of the street ways was to become a common property for the accommodation pleasure health or other convenience of the several feuars round said square... For the lot of ground in Charlotte Square X the sum of £6. 18/4 3/12 and further paying the sum of £14. 18/4 3/12 upon the entry of each heir and singular successor or disponee to said Lot Houses or Tenements built thereon... For the foresaid piece of ground on Young Street the sum... Disposition of Sir George Hope to Margaret Kyle of Binghill dated 2nd April 1818. Disposition & assignation of the said Rev'd Dr. James Kyle in favour of Alexander Russell dated 8th January 1868. Disposition Settlement by the said George Bruce [Factor and Law Agent, W.S.] dated 10th July 1891 & recorded in the Books of Council Session 27th July 1892." • At least 8-10 documents pertain to Francis Thomas Romilly Kennedy (1842-1892) and the Dalquharran Castle which he inherited in 1879 and immediately expanded. The castle, which was built for his grandfather and featured a round bastion tower with a drawing room, piano nobile, and a library above, and an exquisite top-lit spiral central staircase, was extended from 1880-81 by Francis Thomas Romilly Kennedy, to accommodate his wife and bedrooms for their nine children. The work was completed at great expense, leaving the Kennedy family almost bankrupt. The family is known to have left Dalquharran for alternative lodgings, and by 1890 they had leased the castle and its lands as a hunting and fishing estate, as seen in this volume. Examples of the papers found herein include: An Agreement of Lease of the Dalquharran Castle as a furnished residence, "excepting the Strong Room retained by the proprietor", to James Paterson of Milton Lockhart, and includes surrounding lands with permission for shooting small game in accordance with the Ground Game Act of 1880. On 24 July 1893, the Scottish Union & National Insurance Company confirming notice of an "assignation" which transfers the estate of Francis Thomas Romilly Kennedy, to his second son "John Campbell Kennedy of the Royal Navy." A two page document which itemizes and places monetary value on the "Additional Inventory of the Personal Estate... of the late Mr. Kennedy", including the surrender value of a life insurance of sorts, from which are deducted debts and funeral expenses. A list of debentures, borrowed from institutions in Australia, Canada, and Oregon, also documents relating to his investments with the British and Australasian Trust and Loan Company. Matters concerning his executrix and widow Eliza Barbara Colina (née Campbell) Kennedy. • An agreement permitting a John Ernest Orr to manufacture and sell a certain steam trap which was patented in 1892 by a millwright named John Mackie. As members of the elite society of Scottish solicitors, the Writers to the Signet, and thus holding special signing authorities and privileges, the firm of three attracted some notable clients, some of which were long-standing clients from generations past. A cursory gander through the volume finds these examples: • William Jardine Herries Maxwell (1852-1933), a Liberal Unionist politician in Scotland. Maxwell was elected at the 1892 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dumfriesshire in 1895, but lost it very narrowly when his Liberal Party opponent had a majority of only 13 votes. He regained his seat in 1900, but stood down at the 1906 general election. • William Caven Lockhart-Mure of Livingston in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Lieutenant in the 4th Bombay Cavalry (Poona Horse), Indian Army, who later rose to the rank of Major, and died in died in 1913. [With a lease herein the lieutenant agreed to a term of five years, letting and maintaining the Livingstone House, gamekeeper's house, garden and orchard in Kirkcudbright. It was owned by Colonel John Stewart (died 1726), a Scottish professional soldier who served in the Scottish Army and, after the Union with England, in the British Army, who also held a seat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 to 1715, and who had inherited the property from his father. • James Oswald (1779-1853), an influential merchant and Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow from 1832 to 1837 , who inherited the estate of his cousin Richard Alexander Oswald (1771-1841), a Scottish Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1832 to 1835. [Again a family connection, his son, also named Richard, married Lady Mary Kennedy.] • Alexander Oswald (1811-1868), a Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayrshire from 1843 to 1852, as well as his father Richard Alexander Oswald, a Glasgow merchant. • Robert Haldane Scott, a Scottish attorney in Jamaica who filed returns for slaves by plantation owners in Trelawny, and his daughter Eliza Scott who married Reverend Edward Holland of New South Wales and died intestate June 1890. [A detailed document assigns a woman named Margaret Jane Wakeford, resident of Falmouth, Jamaica, as Power of Attorney for the estate of the late Eliza Scott.] • William Hume, technical chemist and innovative instrument maker, who was very active in the 1880s and 1890s designing and manufacturing magic lanterns, glass lantern slides, oxy-hydrogen lime-light apparatuses, a cantilever enlarging apparatus, a half-plate camera, rapid rectilinear lenses, and other photographic equipment, from his shop at 1 Lothian Street in Edinburgh. [A loan proposal herein indicates that he also purchased the property of 31 Lothian Street.] • Annabella Alexandrina Campbell Boswell (1826-1914), gentlewoman, born at Yarrows, Bathurst Plains, New South Wales, having a maternal lineage linked to the Campbells. She was a prolific diarist, horsewoman, skilled watercolourist and pianist. In 1849 Annabella met Patrick Charles Douglas Boswell, a free settler from Ayrshire, Scotland, accountant for the Bank of New South Wales (later becoming manager), who was related to James Boswell the biographer, and presumably also Mr. Boswell of this firm. Together Annabella and Patrick returned to Scotland in 1865, where Patrick had inherited the family estate in Ayrshire. • The only actual "will" recorded here is that of Bengal Army Major General Robert Farquhar Webster's widow, Janetta Annan Webster (née Dewar), which bequeaths the estate to her son, and permits the trustee to invest funds and heritable securities into in stocks of Great Britain, any British Colony or Dependency, until such time as he reaches the age of maturity. [Her husband was educated at the Edinburgh Academy before joining the British Army in India in 1843. He retired in 1878 as a Major General in the Bengal Staff Corps.] • Major Archibald Hume of Auchendolly and Spitalside, born 27 Dec 1843, and recognized by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland for having presented the museum with a bronze enamelled harness ornament of British Celtic origin. • William Fullarton of Fullarton (1754-1808), a Scottish soldier in the Bengal Staff Corps who participated in the Second Anglo-Mysore War, a statesman, agriculturalist, author, and son of a wealthy Ayrshire gentleman for whom he was named - William Fullarton of Fullarton. • Reverend Samuel Smith, attached to the church and parish of Borgue in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. • Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Maitland (176-1824), a British soldier who served in St. Domingue, and colonial Governor of British Ceylon. Historical Scottish minutiae through and through, with over 170 documents to explore, the opportunity of finding little-known information or unravelling early questions of lineage and heritable rights is indeed great! Dalquharran Castle: In the spring of 1819 Thomas Francis Kennedy (1788-1879) of Dalquharran Castle and Dunure, Ayr, (Whig aristocrat and commissioner of woods, forests, land revenues, works and buildings), succeeded his estranged father to the encumbered Ayrshire estates. The principal properties were the Dalquharran Castle near Dailly, and the coastal estate of Dunure, situated between Dalquharran and Ayr. He died at Dalquharran in 1879 and was succeeded by his only child, Francis Thomas Romilly Kennedy (1842-1892). At great expense Francis Thomas Romilly Kennedy made expansions to the mansion, leaving the Kennedy family almost bankrupt. Recent studies suggest that external construction work was finally finished in the summer of 1890, relating this to a note made by Kennedy on documents bearing this date, and existing records regarding the exterior paving and roofing work being completed. The family is known to have left Dalquharran for alternative lodgings, and by 1890 they had leased the castle and its lands as a hunting and fishing estate. The castle had several tenants over the next 45 years, whilst staying in the hands of the Kennedy family. Eventually, the castle and the estate were put up for auction. It was bought by a Timber Merchant from Troon, who set about stripping the timber from the estate and who leased the castle to the Scottish Youth Hostel Association. Dalquharran remained a youth hostel until the Second World War, when the Langside School for the Deaf, evacuated from Glasgow, moved in. During the war, the Castle and lands were sold to one John Stewart, a produce merchant from Girvan, who later moved into Dalquharran with his family, and farmed the estate. The Stewart family co-habited the house with friends, but still the house proved too large and expensive to maintain, and was abandoned. The castle was inhabited as recently as 1967, but was unroofed to allow the then owners to avoid payment of high tax rates. It is now a ruin, with only the masonry shell remaining intact. The Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet is a private society of Scottish solicitors, dating back to 1594 and part of the College of Justice. Writers to the Signet originally had special privileges in relation to the drawing up of documents which required to be signeted, but these have since disappeared and the Society is now an independent, non-regulatory association of solicitors. The Society maintains the Category A listed Signet Library, part of the Parliament House complex in Edinburgh, and members of the Society are entitled to the postnominal letters, WS. Wills/Testaments and Inheritance (Scotland): Heritable property, also known as immoveable or 'heritage' property and real estate, included land and buildings. Up to 1868 real estate was automatically inherited by the eldest son (the law of primogeniture) or daughter if there was no son unless there had been a specific disposition or bequest. The law of primogeniture applied to heritage until 1964. This meant that an eldest son might not appear named in the will. Likewise, a wife, who would automatically get the widow's part, may not be mentioned. The right to inherit was established by Retours of Services of Heirs or by a Trust Disposition and Settlement ('deed of settlement'). The actual register of the transfer or other change in ownership was recorded in Sasines. Manuscript‎

‎Campbell, Thomas, poète écossais (1777-1844).‎

‎6 vers autographes signés. S. l. n. d.‎

‎1 p In-8. Papier contenant six vers de "Hallowed Ground", vers qui sont restés célèbres (avec une légère différence par rapport au texte original): "Strew ye his ashes to the wind / Whose sword or voice has serv'd mankind / And is he dead whose glorious mind / Lifts thine on high / To live in hearts we leave behind / Is not to die". - Joint un petit papier pour demander un manuscrit, ici Maturin's Universe c'est-à-dire "The Universe" (1821) de Charles Robert Maturin. 19 octobre 1831. - Beaux autographes, rare. Ancienne collection de Foville.‎

‎Campet (Jacques), Général‎

‎Lettre autographe Général Campet (1888-1958) Chef du cabinet militaire Maréchal Pétain‎

‎Général Jacques Campet (1888-1958) fut chef du cabinet militaire du Maréchal Pétain de 1940 à 1943. Sisley Huddleston, né le 28 mai 1883 et mort le 14 juillet 1952 est un journaliste et écrivain britannique. Il est rédacteur en chef d'un journal des forces britanniques pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, et réside ensuite à Paris jusque dans les années 1930, écrivant pour le Times (Londres) et le Christian Science Monitor. Il publie en 1929 Europe in Zigzags, dans lequel il soutient le manifeste paneuropéen de Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, puis en 1933 War Unless, qui est un appel "délibérément alarmiste" à la révision du traité de Versailles. Il séjourne en France pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, prend la nationalité française et témoigne par écrit de sa sympathie pour le régime du maréchal Pétain, qu’il a l’occasion d’interviewer. Lettre autographe du Général Campet adressée à Sisley Huddleston - s.l. 29 novembre 1943 - 1 page sur une carte à en-tête du Maréchal Pétain (format 10 x 14) - très bon état, légères pliures dans le coin inférieur droit "Le Général Campet remercie très vivement monsieur Sisley Huddleston de l'aimable envoi de ses "Entretiens en temps de guerre", dont la voix de la presse et la rumeur publique lui ont déjà appris la haute portée politique et morale, et qu'il se dispose à lire dès que possible pour en cueillir le fruit."‎

Bookseller reference : PZX-100

‎Camphausen, Wilhelm, Maler (1818-1885).‎

‎Eigenh. Widmung mit U. Düsseldorf, November 1879.‎

‎1 S. 8vo. "Rast' ich, so rost' ich". - Bekannt wurde der in Düsseldorf geborene Maler durch "genrehafte [...] Darstellungen aus dem Reiterleben, an denen die Zeitgenossen vor allem die Realistik der Detailbehandlung bewunderten" (Thieme/Becker V, 464). Ende der 50er Jahre wandte er sich fast ausschließlich Darstellungen der vaterländischen Geschichte zu. "Die größte Popularität aber sicherten ihm jene im Format mächtigen Reiterporträts des 'Alten Fritz', Kaiser Wilhelms [...], des Gr. Kurfürsten usw. [...]" (ebd. 465).‎

‎Campion ( Léo )‎

‎Le petit Campion lexique encyclopédique illustré, suivi de poèmes facétieux inédis‎

‎Paris, sans date ( années 50 )un volume in 16 broché, couverture rouge illustrée, texte et dessins de l'auteur, onzième édition , 151 pages, envoi autographe de l'auteur, bon état.‎

Bookseller reference : 8232

‎CAMPOS SALDANA, Mario Javier‎

‎Lesiones por Cuerno de Toro. Tesis que para obtener el titulo de medico cirujano. Universidad autonoma del Estado de Mexico. Toluca, Mexico, Junio 1981‎

‎1 vol. in-8 br., Mexico, 1981, 178 pp. Envoi de l'auteur, le Docteur Mario Campos Licastro Saldana. Etat satisfaisant (deux passages découpés en couverture et page de titre, très bon état par ailleurs). Ouvrage de tauromachie peu commun. Prix en l'état. Espagnol‎

‎CAMPRODÓN, Francisco.‎

‎Juan Lanas. Zarzuela en un acto y en verso.‎

‎Madrid, Imprenta de José Rodríguez, 1857. 4to. menor; 31 pp. Ejemplar con dedicatoria autógrafa de Camprodón. Cubiertas mudas en cartulina.‎

‎CAMUS (Albert) écrivain, philosophe et romancier français (1913-1960)‎

‎Lettre dactylographiée signée adressée au directeur de la rédaction de « Réalités » Alfred Max, ancien secrétaire d’une mission internationale auprès de Tchang Kaï-cheik et directeur de plusieurs grands magazines. Il fut à l’origine de plusieurs grands projets des plus ambitieux qui se succédèrent en particulier entre une interview du Président américain Eisenhower ou du Président égyptien Nasser. Paris, 2 juin 1958. Une demie p.in-8. En-tête de la librairie Gallimard « NRF ».‎

‎Il renonce à pouvoir collaborer avec lui. « Non, ce n’est pas encore la bonne occasion. Je viens en effet d’entrer dans l élaboration d’un long travail dont je ne pourrai me distraire avant longtemps. Ne le regrettez pas, d’ailleurs, il me semble que je ne saurais pas bien traiter le sujet dont vous me parlez. Une autre occasion se présentera, j’en suis sûr… ».‎

Bookseller reference : 17C24

‎CAMUS (Albert).‎

‎Actuelles, II. Chroniques (1948-1953).‎

‎Paris Gallimard 1953 1 vol. broché in-12, broché, 186 pp. Edition originale en service de presse (après divers grands papiers) avec un envoi de l'auteur : "à Marcel Duhamel, qui sait que le crime paye, avec la vieille affection d'Albert Camus". Créateur de la célèbre collection de la Série noire chez Gallimard, Marcel Duhamel (1900-1977) a également été traducteur, acteur et scénariste. Il a laissé un amusant volume de souvenirs, "Raconte pas ta vie". Bel exemplaire conservé sous chemise demi-maroquin havane doublée de daim sienne et étui de Devauchelle.‎

Bookseller reference : 97702

‎CAMUS (Albert).‎

‎Lettres à un ami allemand. Avec une préface inédite.‎

‎Paris Gallimard 1957 1 vol. Broché in-12, broché, 86 pp. Mention de 27e édition en page de titre, mais bon exemplaire avec un envoi autographe signé de l'auteur : "Pour Georges Quesnel, en témoignage de solidarité, Albert Camus".‎

Bookseller reference : 16920

‎CAMUS (Marie-Hélène).‎

‎Lune de miel chez Fidel Castro.‎

‎Paris Librairie Arthème Fayard 1960 1 vol. Broché in-8, broché, couverture illustrée, non coupé, 202 pp. Edition originale illustrée de 8 photographies hors-texte par Daniel Camus. Exemplaire du service de presse avec le prière d'insérer joint et un envoi "à Monsieur Georges Bataille, hommage de l'auteur, M. H. Camus".‎

Bookseller reference : 101545

‎CAMUS Albert‎

‎Actuelles II - Chroniques 1948-1953‎

‎Gallimard, Paris 1953, 12x19cm, broché.‎

‎Edition originale sur papier courant. Envoi autographe signé de Albert Camus à J.P. Loiseau : "... pour le remercier encore..." Dos légèrement insolé. - Photos sur www.Edition-originale.com -‎

Bookseller reference : 45741

‎CAMUS Albert‎

‎Actuelles II - Chroniques 1948-1953‎

‎Gallimard, Paris 1953, 12x19cm, broché.‎

‎Edition originale sur papier courant. Précieux et bel envoi autographe signé de Albert Camus : "à Albert Béguin qui trouvera ici les raisons de mes désaccords avec Esprit, avec mon bien cordial souvenir..." Albert Béguin a dirigé la revueEspritaprès la mort d'Emmanuel Mounier, de 1950 à 1957 Quelques petites rousseurs affectant principalement le premier plat et la première garde. Exemplaire complet de sa bande annonce "Lettres sur la révolte". - Photos sur www.Edition-originale.com -‎

Bookseller reference : 47737

‎CAMUS Albert‎

‎Actuelles II - Chroniques 1948-1953‎

‎Gallimard, Paris 1953, 12x19cm, relié.‎

‎Edition originale, un des exemplaires du service de presse. Quelques marques de lectures dans les marges. Reliure à la bradel en demi maroquin rouge framboise, dos lisse, date en queue, plats de papier marbré, couvertures conservées, tête dorée, reliure signée de P. Goy & C. Vilaine. Envoi autographe signé d'Albert Camus à Gilbert Sigaux, compagnon de Combat : "... avec l'affectueuse pensée de son vieux camarade..." - Photos sur www.Edition-originale.com -‎

Bookseller reference : 63678

‎CAMUS Albert‎

‎L'envers et l'endroit‎

‎- Gallimard, Paris 1958, 11,5x18cm, reliure de l'éditeur. - Later edition of 550 numbered copies on vélin labeur paper. Publisher's paper boards with an original design by Paul Bonet. Precious and beautiful inscription from Albert Camus to René Char : " à vous cher René, ces confidences, et une amitié du même cœur, fraternellement. / Albert Camus. / Juin 59" Very nice copy of exceptional provenance. The friendship between Albert Camus and René Char is among the most touching and most fruitful in French literature. There was nothing obvious to bring together the Algerian journalist and author and the Provencal poet, much less to suggest a mutual affinity. Camus had not come across Char's poetry and Char had no taste for novels, apart from those of Maurice Blanchot. Nonetheless, it is through their respective works that the two artists found out about each other and developed a mutual respect. So - before Camus and Char actually met - they had met through Caligula and Hypnos - both illustrating the poet's responsibility in the face of the violent world. "So in our darkness Beauty has no given space. All that space is for Beauty" (Char, Feuillets d'Hypnos). It is this mutual need for Beauty as a political response to the outrageousness of ideologies that united the two artists at the end of the war. Catalyst to their friendship, this first "acknowledgment" inaugurated a twelve-year correspondence, during the course of which their mutual affection grew and revealed an artistic convergence: "I believe that our brotherhood - on all levels - goes even deeper than we think and feel" (Char to Camus, 3 November 1951). "What a great and profound thing it is to detach oneself bit by bit from all that and all those who are worth nothing and to find little by little over the years and across borders a community of spirit. Like with many of us, who all at once feel ourselves finally becoming of 'the few'" (Camus to Char, 26 February 1950). These 'few' are a reference to a quotation from Gide: "I believe in the virtue of small numbers; the world will be saved by a few," whom Char and Camus tried to bring together in establishing the Empédocle review: "It is perhaps time that 'the few' Gide talked about came together," as Camus wrote to Guilloux in January 1949. They published writing by Gracq, Melville, Grenier, Guilloux, Blanchot, Ponge, Rilke, Kafka, and so on. However, internal dissension soon engulfed the review and they abandoned the project together. Their friendship, however, remained unblemished. The two men met regularly in Provence, where Char was from and - thanks to him - Camus' adopted home. They showed each other their manuscripts and confided in each other with their doubts: "The more I produce the less sure I become. Night falls ever thicker on the artist's path, his way. Eventually, he dies completely blind. My only hope is that there is still light inside, somewhere, and though he cannot see it, it continues to shine nonetheless. But how can one be sure? That is why one must rely on a friend, one who knows and understands, one who is walking that same path." They inscribed works to each other (the reprints of Feuillets d'Hypnos and Actuelles) and in each new copy wrote inscriptions in which they both reinforced their comradeship in arms and in spirit. "to René Char who helps me live, awaiting our kingdom, his friend and brother in hope," (manuscript of The Plague). "For Albert Camus, one of the very rare men I admire and love and whose work is the honor of our times. René Char," (Fureur et mystère) "[to RENÉ CHAR], fellow traveler, this guidebook to a mutual voyage into the time of men, waiting for noon. Affectionately, Albert Camus," (Actuelles I) "For Albert Camus, whose friendship and work form a Presence that illuminates and fortifies the eyes," (Art bref). "Oh if only poets would agree to become again what they were before: seers who speak to us of all that is possible...If they only gave us a foretaste o‎

‎CAMUS Albert‎

‎L'été‎

‎- Gallimard, Paris 1954, 12x18,5cm, broché. - Edition de l'année de l'originale. Petites restaurations sur le dos. Bel envoi autographe signé d'Albert Camus à Irma Antonetto : "... pour lui rappeler nos promenades d'hiver et la fidèle pensée d'Albert Camus..." [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]‎

‎CAMUS Albert‎

‎Lettre autographe datée et signée d'une page à Vivette Perret‎

‎S.n., Paris Lundi 13 Octobre s.d. (1947), 13,5x21cm, une feuille.‎

‎Lettre autographe datée du 31 Mars 1956 et signée d'Albert Camus, écrite sur 26 lignes à l'encre noire, adressée à Vivette Perret alors souffrante et dans laquelle il évoque l'achèvement de son adaptation de Requiem pour une nonne de Faulkner qu'il prévoit de rebaptiser "Le cri". Très bel état en dépit d'une trace de pliure inhérente à la mise sous pli. "Chère Vivette, je suis bien ennuyé de vous savoir aux prises avec les microbes et le thermomètre, au lieu de prendre des vacances. Je vous ai trouvée fatiguée à Paris et vous avez besoin de repos. Il faut en prendre, de toute manière, dès que les petits 40 aurait fait leur numéro. L'inconvénient du midi, en ce moment, c'est qu'il pleut ou qu'il fait gris. Un peu plus tard dans la saison, il fera beau, ce qui est une petite consolation. Je profite du ciel gris pour achever mon adaptation de Faulkner que je terminerai sans doute avant mon retour. Je ne crois pas que j'irai à Cannes, sauf si nous pouvons y manger le pistou. Le livre va paraître sous le titre Le cri, récit. Mais maintenant, j'en suis complètement séparé. J'ai toujours la même envie, fièvre serait plus juste, de travail. Comme les prisonniers qui veulent rattraper les années perdues. Horrible comparaison. Courage, chère Vivette. J'espère que Jean a des espérances, au moins. A mon retour, je reparlerai à Gaston Gallimard. Je pense à vous très affectueusement, et vous embrasse. A. Camus." - Photos sur www.Edition-originale.com -‎

Bookseller reference : 72720

‎CAMUS Albert‎

‎Pièce autographe signée d'Albert Camus "J'en suis bien content du moins"‎

‎s.d. [1944], 21x26,7cm, une feuille.‎

‎Pièce autographe signée d'Albert Camus, une feuille à l'encre noire. Albert Camus, interrogé sur son uvre parHenri Corbière, laisse ici trois réponses aussi concises qu'intrigantes, révélatrices de son sens aigu de la répartie. Méfiant des tentatives d'intrusion dans sa vie, qu'elle soit privée ou littéraire, Camus élude les questions par des détours où pointe l'ironie,l'un des piliers stylistiques de l'auteur: «Vos débuts littéraires furent-ils heureux ou difficiles? J'en suis bien content, du moins.» Sous le laconisme des réponses se distingue le lien inextricable qui unit le journalisme et la littérature au sein de l'écriture de Camus, contestant le bien-fondé de la distinction qu'établit son interlocuteur : «Des moyens d'existence [...] vous permirent-ils de vous faire un nom dans les lettres ou ne vécûtes-vous que de votre plume?Je suis journaliste de métier». Déjà auteur de deux monuments littéraires, L'Etranger et le Mythe de Sisyphe, Camus reste prudent quant à sa postérité «J'ai publié trop peu de livres pour répondre à cette question». Dérobant aux regards les coulisses de son uvre, Camus demeure fidèle à sa propre formule: «Il n'est pas de vraie création sans secret» (Le Mythe de Sisyphe) - Photos sur www.Edition-originale.com -‎

Bookseller reference : 64002

‎CAMUS Albert & WILDE Oscar‎

‎La ballade de la geôle de Reading. - L'artiste en prison‎

‎Falaize, Paris 1952, 11,5x17,5cm, broché.‎

‎Nouvelle édition de la traduction française établie par Jacques Bour et édition originale de la célèbre préface d'Albert Camus, un des 50 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin Madagascar, tirage de tête. Précieux envoi autographe signé d'Albert Camus : "A Michel Simon grand artiste avec les voeux chaleureux d'un de ses vieux admirateurs" enrichi d'un envoi autographe signé du traducteur Jacques Bour : "A Michel Simon qui ferait crouler tous les murs!" Rare et bel exemplaire. - Photos sur www.Edition-originale.com -‎

Bookseller reference : 53361