‎Collectibles‎

‎Jorge MANRIQUE‎

‎Coplas‎

‎Paris: GLM 1962. Fine. GLM Paris 1962 16 x 19.50 cm broché New edition of the French translation and first edition of the French translation established by Guy Lévis Mano one of 98 numbered copies on vellum deluxe issue. Handsome copy of this work with the original text in Castilian facing the French translation. GLM hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 80223

‎Jorge SEMPRUN‎

‎Adieu vive clarté.‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1998. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1998 14 x 20.50 cm broché First edition on current paper. Nice full copy of his trailer. Signed autograph Jorge Semprun to a friend named Brigitte: "". this story of adolescence ."" Gallimard unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 65169

‎Jorge SEMPRUN‎

‎L'évanouissement‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1967. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1967 12.50 x 20 cm broché First edition one of 35 numbered copies on pure linen paper the only deluxe copies. A handsome copy. Gallimard unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 86502

‎Jorge SEMPRUN‎

‎L'évanouissement‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1967. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1967 12 x 19 cm broché Edition review copy. autograph dedication of the author autograph signed by Jorge Semprun to Jean Freustié. Complete copy of his please insert. Gallimard unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 50940

‎Jorge SEMPRUN‎

‎La deuxième mort de Ramon Mercader‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1969. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1969 14 x 20.50 cm broché First edition printed on ordinary paper. Spine slightly sunned otherwise handsome copy. Autograph inscription signed by Jorge Semprun: ""A madame Lelièvre ce roman ne pouvant servir à rien qu'à passer le temps."" ""To Mrs. Lelièvre this novel which can serve no purpose other than to pass the time."" Gallimard unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 71835

‎Jorge SEMPRUN‎

‎Le mort qu'il faut‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 2001. Fine. Gallimard Paris 2001 14.50 x 21.50 cm broché First edition of the French translation one of 40 numbered copies on pur fil paper the only deluxe copies. A very handsome copy. Gallimard unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 42745

‎Jorgen Andresen BOLLING‎

‎Index librorum saeculo XVmo impressorum quorum exempla possidet Bibliotheca Regia Hafniensis‎

‎s. l.: S. n. 1850. Fine. S. n. s. l. s. d. 15.50 x 24.50 cm relié First edition. Half chocolate sheep binding spine with five raised bands showing minor rubbing bookplate pasted to verso of front board. Some scattered foxing. Rare. S. n. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 15807

‎Joris-Karl HUYSMANS - (Victor HUGO)‎

‎Carte autographe signée « Ce que je suis rasé par les reporters à propos du centenaire d'Hugo ! » • How fed up I am with reporters about Hugo’s centenary!’‎

‎1902. Fine. 4 février 1902 11.50 x 9 cm Une carte recto-verso ""Paris February 4 1902 I regretted my dear friend not to see you! The poet did not walk as you have seen I had gone for a walk on the quays. That's for lunch at Crespel Saturday at noon ½. Would you write to him if you do not see him before. What I am shaved by reporters about Hugo's centenary! It is to be believed that all the newspapers and magazines will make a number apart! What we are going to defecate imbecilities sic on his remains! A reporter confessed to me that he had been visiting about Hugo the members of the Academy of Medicine !! and also the painters. It appears that it will be monumental on this side. So Saturday dear friend and good to you Huysmans Seen Madame Leclaire more and more exasperated by the idea of staying in Ligugé! "" unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 60237

‎Joris-Karl HUYSMANS‎

‎Croquis parisiens‎

‎Paris: Léon Vanier 1886. Fine. Léon Vanier Paris 1886 9.50 x 19.50 cm broché Second edition first in parts printed in 539 copies this one of 500 copies on paper from the Périgord works. Handsome autograph inscription signed by Joris-Karl Huysmans to Edouard Dujardin. With a frontispiece portrait of the author. One small tear without lack to head of one joint upper cover partially faded one small marginal lack not touching text to page 23 otherwise internally good. Léon Vanier unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 23171

‎Joris-Karl HUYSMANS‎

‎En route‎

‎Paris: Tresse & Stock 1895. Fine. Tresse & Stock Paris 1895 11.50 x 18.50 cm relié First edition on ordinary paper. Contemporary half black shagreen over marbled paper boards spine in six compartments slightly rubbed marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Autograph inscription signed by Joris-Karl Huysmans. A very pale dampstain to foot of first leaf. Tresse & Stock hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 34917

‎Joris-Karl HUYSMANS‎

‎Les foules de Lourdes‎

‎Paris: P.V. Stock 1906. Fine. P.V. Stock Paris 1906 12 x 18.50 cm relié First edition on current paper. Two rips glued at the head and foot of a bit. Signed autograph Joris-Karl Huysmans Maurice Talmeyr. Ex-dono manuscript as ex-libris in the loop of ""s"" of Huysmans ending the autograph dedication of the author. P.V. Stock unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 65449

‎Joris-Karl HUYSMANS‎

‎Lettre autographe signée « c'est l'invasion hollando-belge venue pour l'exposition . Je cours à la recherche de chambres d'hôtels pour ces barbares aux toisons jaunes »‎

‎s. l. Paris 1878. Fine. s. l. • Paris n.d. 14 mai 1878 9.80 x 13.40 cm un feuillet remplié Autograph letter signed by Joris-Karl Huysmans addressed to Léon Cladel 40 lines written in black ink on 4 pages on a folded sheet envelope included. A 2cm tear without loss inherent to the fold of the sheet. In this caustic letter entirely imbued with Huysmanian poetic writing the author regrets that Dutch-Belgian visitors to the Universal Exhibition keep him away from the Sèvres landscapes where Léon Cladel lives. « Je sors de chez Leconte de Lisle il a reçu votre livre couleur de sang » ""I have just left Leconte de Lisle's he received your blood-colored book"". The importance of Léon Cladel's work and personality esteemed friend of the great writers of the time is perceptible from these opening lines. The « livre couleur de sang » ""blood-colored book"" witness to Huysmans' poetic force which shines through even in his private correspondence refers to l'Homme-de-la-Croix-aux-Bœufs published by Edouard Dentu in 1878 a novel which was moreover reread by Flaubert also intimate with Cladel. « Je vous serre la main de tout cœur mon puissant orfèvre et vous invite pour notre bonheur à tous à forger encore de belles œuvres. » ""I shake your hand wholeheartedly my powerful goldsmith and invite you for all our happiness to forge more beautiful works."" Émile Zola would take up this eloquent analogy in Cladel's funeral oration: « . de ces belles œuvres impeccables qu'il lançait ouvragées comme des joyaux de haut prix » "". those beautiful impeccable works he launched wrought like precious jewels"". This same year 1878 sees the Universal Exhibition settle in Paris an event which Huysmans seems compelled to attend: « c'est l'invasion hollando-belge venue pour l'exposition qui me tient et m'empêche » ""it is the Dutch-Belgian invasion come for the exhibition that holds me and prevents me"". The author's position regarding Belgium and Holland is ambiguous: Dutch through his father Huysmans makes numerous family and artistic visits to these countries and he is recognized there for his critical writings on painting. The author nevertheless prefigures here the disdain that would be found in À rebours a few years later: « Je cours à la recherche de chambres d'hôtels pour ces barbares aux toisons jaunes et le soir quand j'ai une minute de libre je les fais déambuler au travers de la capitale. Ils ouvrent des yeux comme des assiettes et jargonnent des exclamations admiratives. » ""I run in search of hotel rooms for these barbarians with yellow fleeces and in the evening when I have a free minute I make them wander through the capital. They open eyes like plates and jabber admiring exclamations."". Suffocated by the city and its society « Tout ça ça peut être drôle mais ça m'obsède singulièrement. J'espère que ça va enfin cesser et que je vais reconquérir un peu de cette pauvre liberté dont je suis si maigrement loti même en temps ordinaire » ""All that can be amusing but it obsesses me singularly. I hope it will finally cease and that I will reconquer a bit of that poor freedom of which I am so meagerly provided even in ordinary times"" Huysmans aspires to find nature again a desire which expresses itself through an elegiac exclamation: « Ah les coteaux de Sèvres ! Pardon ! » ""Ah the hills of Sèvres! Forgive me!"" A piquant letter from which emerge the themes dear to Huysmans' singular pen. unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 63560

‎Joris-Karl HUYSMANS - (inscribed to Lucien DESCAVES)‎

‎Trois primitifs • Three Primitives‎

‎Paris: Albert Messein 1905. Fine. Albert Messein Paris 1905 16.50 x 23.50 cm relié First edition on ordinary paper; only 17 copies were printed on deluxe Japanese paper. Bradel binding in full boards covered with glazed marbled paper smooth spine navy Russian morocco lettering piece original wrappers and spine preserved gilt top edge; an elegant signed pastiche binding by T. Boichot. Illustrated with 6 plates hors texte. A fine copy handsomely presented in a pastiche binding. With a precious signed autograph inscription by Joris-Karl Huysmans to his friend and literary executor Lucien Descaves. Lucien Descaves a naturalist writer Communard libertarian and anti-militarist founded the Joris-Karl Huysmans Society in 1927. From 1887 onward he frequented Edmond de Goncourt’s Grenier and in 1900 became one of the founding members of the Académie Goncourt alongside Joris-Karl Huysmans Léon Hennique Octave Mirbeau Rosny Paul Margueritte Élémir Bourges and Gustave Geffroy though he distanced himself from it in 1932 after the prize seemingly destined for Céline’s Voyage au bout de la nuit was ultimately awarded to Les Loups by Guy Mazeline. On 2 May 1918 alongside Pablo Picasso he served as a witness at the marriage of the poet Guillaume Apollinaire to the painter Jacqueline Kolb. Albert Messein hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 47766

‎Joris-Karl HUYSMANS‎

‎« vous êtes arrivé à rehausser la langue à la rendre ni inerme ni inerte. Et je sais combien c'est malaisé et rare cela ! » • Autograph letter to Jacques Le Lorrain‎

‎Paris 1888. Fine. Paris 20 juin 1888 12.40 x 16.70 cm un feuillet Autograph letter signed addressed to Jacques Le Lorrain from Joris-Karl Huysmans 30 lines written in black ink on 2 pages. Manuscript correction by the author. Fold inherent to the letter's mailing. Remarkable letter with sometimes obscure remarks where Huysmans emphasizes the importance and rarity of the writing craft at work in the novel Nu by the cobbler-poet Jacques Le Lorrain. « In these times when people rush books in simple language - you know as well as I what these indigences mean - it is a pleasure to see elucidated sentences labored over expression delivered with forceps ». Sharp as usual Huysmans positions himself as a fierce defender of literary writing experienced as labor which contemporary production seems to be abandoning: « this concern is too exhausted by all and despised for me not to congratulate you on your care ». Accustomed to receiving works from his colleagues Huysmans endeavors to highlight the innovative particularities of each author he receives: « Many pages are truly curious. Lorgeral on the grass closing his eyes listening to the voices - it's fresh and absolutely accurate. The scene of Juliette's armpit kissing. This work so well explained of man's jealousy for the child are particular original corners of this book whose very scrupulous style has captivated me. ». The author Huysmans distinguishes himself here always attentive to the right measure necessary according to him for literary expression: « you have managed to enhance the language to make it neither powerless nor inert. And I know how difficult and rare that is! » unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 63597

‎Josane DURANTEAU - (Albertine SARRAZIN)‎

‎Albertine Sarrazin‎

‎Paris: Editions SarrazinJean-Jacques Pauvert 1971. Fine. Editions Sarrazin Jean-Jacques Pauvert Paris 1971 12 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 300 numbered copies on bouffant paper the only deluxe copies after 100 pur fil. Our copy lacks the two engravings present in the 400 deluxe copies. Signed and inscribed by Julien Sarrazin to Jani Brun. Editions SarrazinJean-Jacques Pauvert unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 73655

‎Jose Benitez‎

‎1872 Matanzas Slave-Transfer Authorization Naming Félix African and Mariano Creole a Late-Slavery Certificate Signed by José Benítez‎

‎Matanzas Cuba. Good with no dust jacket. 1872. Non-Book. On offer is an original 1872 certificación de vigilancia issued in Matanzas to Doña Magdalena Bofill authorizing her to obtain official permission vista a la expedición for the transfer of two enslaved men—Félix a forty-two-year-old of African birth and Mariano a twenty-six-year-old criollo Cuban-born —from the southern district of Matanzas to the district of Lagunillas under the jurisdiction of Cárdenas. Signed by José Benítez Inspector of Vigilance Inspector de Vigilancia del Distrito del Sur the document bears the embossed official seal of that office and the blue Sello 8º fiscal stamp 2 ½ Pesetas 1871. It is numbered N. º 270443 and includes manuscript endorsements at the top “Expediente n. º 628 / Obra 2/1872 / Carta de aviso” together with a marginal clerk’s notation “Gato N. º 55” likely an internal filing or registry code. The text reads in part: “Certifico que Dª Magdalena Bofill de esta misma del barrio de la Iglesia solicita vista a la espedición para el partido de Lagunillas jurisdicción de Cárdenas por dos esclavos Félix de Africa de 42 años y Mariano criollo de 26 años los cuales existían empadronados y residiendo en este distrito. Y para que pueda obtener dicho documento expido la presente. Matanzas Octe 21 de 1872. José Benítez. ”Issued only six years before the formal abolition of slavery in Cuba 1880 this certificate represents the bureaucratic machinery of slavery’s final phase—when cédulas certificados de empadronamiento and licencias de traslado documented the internal movement of enslaved laborers between sugar districts. The Matanzas–Cárdenas corridor was one of the island’s richest sugar regions and Lagunillas referred to a plantation zone inland from the port of Cárdenas. The identification of both an African-born and a Creole enslaved man typifies the generational overlap of Cuba’s late slave era when African survivors of the illegal trade coexisted with Cuban-born descendants on the same estates. The Chinese coolie trade a system of indentured labor that targeted young poor Chinese men operated from 1847 to 1874. Throughout this period African slavery was slowly being abolished around the world. The coolie trade was initiated by Britain and later dominated by both Britain and the United States. Chinese coolie laborers were sent to work in British American and Spanish colonies and the nature of the trade evolved throughout its 27-year operation due to social and political pressures. It took place primarily between Macao then under Portuguese rule and Havana Cuba and its manifests and certificates often mirrored the bureaucratic precision of the present document. A rare well-preserved example of Cuba’s late-slavery administrative system complete with seal stamp and clearly named enslaved individuals—ideal for institutional acquisition and teaching collections concerned with race labor and the mechanics of emancipation. Condition: Moderate foxing and ink oxidation typical of nineteenth-century Cuban paper; small wormholes not affecting legibility; embossed seal strong; fiscal stamp intact; manuscript bright and legible. ; Manuscripts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1 pages; Signed by Author . unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 0012128

‎Jose CABANIS‎

‎Des jardins en Espagne‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1969. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1969 12 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 135 numbered copies on wove paper the only deluxe copies. Handsome copy. Gallimard unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 71573

‎Jose CABANIS‎

‎Juliette Bonviolle‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1954. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1954 11.50 x 19 cm relié First edition one of 25 numbered copies on pur fil paper the only deluxe copies. Handsome copy despite two small black stains at head and foot of one joint. Half box binding with tan bands smooth spine marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns original wrappers and spine preserved. Gallimard hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 86878

‎Jose CABANIS‎

‎L'âge ingrat‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1952. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1952 12 x 18.50 cm broché First edition of the author's first work one of 55 numbered copies on pure linen paper the only deluxe copies. Handsome copy despite the spine very slightly yellowed without consequence. Gallimard unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 84963

‎Jose CABANIS‎

‎Les jeux de la nuit‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1964. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1964 12.50 x 19.50 cm broché First edition one of 135 numbered copies on wove paper the only deluxe copies. Two bookplates pasted on an endpaper. Handsome copy. Signed and inscribed by José Cabanis to Monsieur Régnier. Gallimard unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 71572

‎Jose CAGNET‎

‎Rivière d'or‎

‎Paris: La pensée universelle 1982. Fine. La pensée universelle Paris 1982 14 x 19.50 cm broché First edition one of 20 numbered copies on vellum Lana only leading copies. Nice copy. Signed autograph of José Cagnet. La pensée universelle hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 64545

‎Jose GIOVANNI‎

‎Comme un vol de vautours‎

‎Paris: Fayard 2003. Fine. Fayard Paris 2003 15 x 23 cm broché The first edition of which there were no deluxe copies. Handsome copy despite a crease mark to the lower right corner of the front board. Fine autograph inscription signed by José Giovanni to a friend: ""A toi Eric dit Manouche qui a porté nos chaînes avec talent. José Giovanni."" To you Eric known as Manouche who carried our chains with talent. José Giovanni. Fayard unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 87886

‎Jose GUDIOL‎

‎Goya‎

‎Paris: Editions Weber 1970. Fine. Editions Weber Paris 1970 25.50 x 29.50 cm 4 volumes en reliure de l'éditeur First edition in French. Publisher's bindings in full red skyvertex smooth spines copies complete with their dust jackets which show no defects as well as their cellophane covers. Very rich iconography. Handsome set. Editions Weber unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 51146

‎Jose Maria de HEREDIA‎

‎A une ville morte - Poème manuscrit autographe signé de José Maria de Hérédia • To a Dead City – Autograph manuscript poem signed by José Maria de Heredia‎

‎1893. Fine. s. d. circa 1893 16 x 22.50 cm une feuille Sonnet autograph signed by José Maria de Heredia entitled ""A dead city"" and published for the first time in 1893 in the famous collection ""The trophies"" masterpiece of the poet. To a bleak city. Cartagena of Indias 1532 - 1583 - 1697. ""Morne town once queen of the oceans! Today the shark pursues in peace the scombs and the wandering cloud only extends the shadows On your harbor where giant galleons rolled. Since Drake and the assault of the English miscreants Your cluttered walls crumble in black rubble And like a glorious necklace of dark pearls Pointis balls show the gaping holes. Between the burning sky and the sea At the sleepy sun of a monotonous noon You dream O Guerriere to the old Conquistadors; And in the annoyance of warm calm nights Rocking your faded glory O City you fall asleep Under the palm trees with the long trembling palms. unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 68116

‎Jose Maria Ferreira de CASTRO‎

‎Emigrantes - Exemplaire de Raymond Queneau‎

‎Lisboa Lisbon: Livraria Renascença 1928. Fine. Livraria Renascença Lisboa Lisbon 1928 12.50 x 19 cm relié Second edition. Bradel binding in full pebbled paper smooth spine very slightly faded navy blue shagreen title-label with a very slight marginal scratch original wrappers preserved. Fine full-page autograph inscription dated 1948 written in Portuguese from José Maria Ferreira de Castro to Raymond Queneau. Livraria Renascença unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 83392