‎Collectibles‎

‎Maurice BARRES‎

‎Les amitiés francaises‎

‎Paris: Félix Juven 1903. Fine. Félix Juven Paris 1903 18 x 21 cm broché First edition one of 30 numbered copies on Holland paper the only deluxe copies after 20 Japan. Tears with lacks to margins of spine and boards and endpapers partially shaded. Handsome full-margined copy. Félix Juven hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 49741

‎Maurice BARRES‎

‎Les diverses familles spirituelles de la France‎

‎Paris: Plon 1930. Fine. Plon Paris 1930 14.50 x 20 cm broché Definitive edition and partly first edition as it contains unpublished texts one of 20 numbered copies on China paper deluxe edition. Handsome full-margined copy. Plon unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 86281

‎Maurice BARRES‎

‎Les traits éternels de la France‎

‎Paris: Emile-Paul frères 1916. Fine. Emile-Paul frères Paris 1916 15.50 x 20 cm broché First edition one of 125 numbered copies on Holland paper. Spine sunned with a tear at the head of the second board otherwise a handsome full-margined copy. Emile-Paul frères unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 7467

‎Maurice BARRES‎

‎Lettre autographe signée adressée à madame Léon Daudet‎

‎s. l.: S. n. 1905. Fine. S. n. s. l. s. d. 1905 13.50 x 21.50 cm un feuillet recto-verso Autograph letter signed by Maurice Barrès addressed to Madame Léon Daudet 39 lines in black ink on a four-page folio. Fold marks inherent to postal mailing. ""Chère madame J'avais espéré voir Léon et peut-être aussi vous-même en Provence et ce que je rêve vous faire connaître ce beau site de Mirabeau. Du moins j'y ai votre conversation écrite si claire rapide souple intéressante ces pages pas fabriquées mais jaillissantes et si aimables ! Je vois que je ne vous déplairais en vous disant que je vous apparente à celle de madame Millet. Robinel que j'ai tant lue quand j'étais enfant parce qu'elle était un des livres de notre maison et que je vous tiens pour sa cousine mais une dame de Paris auprès d'une importante fermière et puis aussi mais cette fois je vous choquerai. Je vous rapproche des livres de Michelet dont la ""mare-polémiste"" sait bien les élans et le goût. Au milieu de ses foules il a bien marqué comment l'homme d'action a besoin de la campagne française. Nul doute que vous n'ayez guère le petit malade mais comment vous a-t-il surpris si brusquement et réduit à une intervention chirurgicale dans les deux heures vous qui surveillez et qui défiez dans vos flots d'eau chaude et savonneuse les microbes farouches Excusez moi cette taquinerie que je regrettais bien profondément si je ne pensais si je n'étais pas sûr que vous êtes hors de souci. Au revoir chère madame amitiés de ma femme pour vous et pour Léon et bien respectueusement vôtre Barrès. Mirabeau jeudi."" ""Dear Madam I had hoped to see Léon and perhaps you as well in Provence and what I dream of to introduce you to that beautiful site of Mirabeau. At least I have your written conversation there so clear rapid supple interesting these pages not manufactured but springing forth and so amiable! I see that I would not displease you in saying that I relate you to that of Madame Millet. Robinel whom I read so much when I was a child because it was one of the books of our house and whom I consider you her cousin but a Parisian lady beside an important farmer's wife and then also but this time I will shock you. I bring you close to Michelet's books whose ""mare-polemicist"" well knows the impulses and taste. In the midst of his crowds he clearly marked how the man of action needs the French countryside. No doubt that you hardly have the little patient but how did he surprise you so suddenly and reduce you to surgical intervention within two hours you who monitor and defy in your streams of hot soapy water the fierce microbes Excuse me this teasing that I would deeply regret if I did not think if I were not sure that you are beyond worry. Goodbye dear madam regards from my wife to you and to Léon and most respectfully yours Barrès. Mirabeau Thursday."" S. n. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83471

‎Maurice BARDECHE‎

‎Lettre à François Mauriac‎

‎Paris: La pensée libre 1947. Fine. La pensée libre Paris 1947 12 x 19 cm broché First edition on ordinary paper. A tiny tear at the foot of the spine otherwise a handsome copy considering the poor quality of this post-war paper. La pensée libre unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 36867

‎Maurice BARRES‎

‎N'importe où hors du monde‎

‎Paris: Plon 1958. Fine. Plon Paris 1958 15 x 20.50 cm relié First edition one of 48 numbered copies on Japan paper deluxe issue. Handsome copy with full margins. Half red morocco with corners smooth spine with a slight tear of no consequence at head marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns covers and spine preserved top edge gilt retaining deckled edges signed binding by Lucie Weill. Plon hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83979

‎Maurice BARDECHE‎

‎Nuremberg ou la terre promise‎

‎Paris: Les sept couleurs 1948. Fine. Les sept couleurs Paris 1948 16 x 21 cm broché First edition one of 110 numbered copies on pure thread Lafuma vellum. Handsome full-margined copy despite the endpapers being partially shaded. Precious and beautiful full-page autograph inscription dated June 18 1984 and signed by Maurice Bardèche to Régine Deforges: ""Chère Régine Deforges voici une horrible témoignage sur ma noirceur d'âme que je vous adresse en tremblant dans l'espoir insensé que vous le lirez avec indulgence en raison de mon affection et de mon admiration pour vous. François Mauriac a écrit à propos de ce livre que j'étais un fou égaré par la douleur qui criait ""Heil Hilter"" sur la place de la Concorde. Je trouve aujourd'hui ce grognement de 200 pages timide trop prudent pauvrement documenté. Enfin l'impénitence finale. Mais vous êtes un ange très gai et très sceptique : c'est la meilleure espèce d'ange. Maurice Bardèche 18 Juin 1984."" ""Dear Régine Deforges here is a horrible testimony to my darkness of soul that I send you tremblingly in the insane hope that you will read it with indulgence because of my affection and admiration for you. François Mauriac wrote about this book that I was a madman led astray by grief who cried 'Heil Hitler' on the Place de la Concorde. I find this 200-page growling today timid too cautious poorly documented. Finally the final impenitence. But you are a very cheerful and very skeptical angel: that's the best kind of angel. Maurice Bardèche June 18 1984."" Provenance: from the library of Régine Deforges. Les sept couleurs hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75777

‎Maurice BARRES‎

‎Trois stations de psychothérapie‎

‎Paris: Librairie académique Didier 1891. Fine. Librairie académique Didier Paris 1891 9.50 x 15.50 cm broché First edition on ordinary paper with only 16 Japan deluxe copies printed. Bradel binding in half vellum-style canvas smooth spine turquoise morocco title-label with slight marginal scuff marbled paper boards endpapers and pastedowns original wrappers preserved contemporary binding. Handsome copy. Librairie académique Didier hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 56686

‎Maurice BARING‎

‎Trois vendredis‎

‎Paris: Stock 1933. Fine. Stock Paris 1933 12 x 19 cm broché First edition in French one of 130 numbered copies on alfa paper the only deluxe copies with 27 on pur fil. Two small tears at head and foot of spine handsome interior condition. Stock unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 23088

‎Maurice BARRES‎

‎Un Discours à Metz 15 août 1911‎

‎Paris: Emile-Paul 1911. Fine. Emile-Paul Paris 1911 11.50 x 18.50 cm broché First edition on ordinary paper one of the copies specially printed for the author with mention of third thousand on the first cover. Some worming on the first cover and in the margins of some leaves. Signed autograph inscription from Maurice Barrès to the politician Paul Boncour: ""A Paul Boncour pour sa bibliothèque minime son ami."" ""To Paul Boncour for his modest library his friend."" Emile-Paul unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 76621

‎Maurice BARRES‎

‎Un homme libre‎

‎Paris: Georges Crès et Cie 1912. Fine. Georges Crès et Cie Paris 1912 13 x 19.50 cm relié New edition one of 5 copies printed on China paper deluxe copy after 3 on old Japan paper illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author in bistre. Bradel binding in half red morocco smooth Jansenist spine very slightly faded and showing very light scratches blind fillet on marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns covers and spine preserved binding signed Ch. Lanoë successeur de P. Ruban. Handsome copy. Georges Crès et Cie hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 76045

‎Maurice BARRES - (inscribed to Jose Maria de HEREDIA)‎

‎Un homme libre • A Free Man‎

‎Paris: Perrin & Cie 1889. Fine. Perrin & Cie Paris 1889 12 x 19 cm relié First edition. Paper Bradel binding by Thomas Boichot dark blue title-piece covers and spine preserved ex libris pasted opposite half-title with autograph inscription. Handsome autograph inscription signed by Maurice Barrès to the poet José-Maria de Heredia. A very good copy nicely bound. Perrin & Cie unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 53811

‎Maurice BEJART‎

‎"24h à Venise pour rencontrer Boulez."" • Signed autograph postcard addressed to André-Philippe Hersin‎

‎Venise Venice 1973. Fine. Venise Venice 25 mai 1973 14.80 x 10.40 cm une carte postale Autograph postcard signed by Maurice Béjart addressed to André-Philippe Hersin written in black ink pen on the verso of a color photographic reproduction of the Viale alla Chiesa in Venice on which two monks reading appear. ""Brother Maurice and brother A. Philippe walk while reading the latest issue of Les Saisons de la Croix.! 24 hours in Venice to meet Boulez. Tomorrow Milan. I think of you very much - M."" Journalist dance critic and editor-in-chief of Les Saisons de la danse Hersin was a great defender of Béjart's choreographic style and devoted laudatory articles to him in his review as well as monographic fascicles on his work. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 79134

‎Maurice BEJART‎

‎"Ispahan où nous étions ensemble est toujours aussi émouvant."" • Signed autograph postcard addressed to André-Philippe Hersin‎

‎Ispahan Isfahan 1974. Fine. Ispahan Isfahan 22 novembre 1974 14.90 x 10.20 cm une carte postale Autograph postcard signed by Maurice Béjart addressed to André-Philippe Hersin on the verso of a photographic reproduction showing the trembling minarets of Isfahan. The choreographer sent this postcard from Iran where he created in 1971 under the patronage of Empress Farah Pahlavi his ballet Golestan The Rose Garden and in 1974 at the Shiraz festival his ballet Mallarmé III to music by Pierre Boulez. It would also be during this period that Béjart is said to have converted to Islam after meeting Dariouche Safvate eminent Kurdish Sufi musician. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 70633

‎Maurice BEJART‎

‎"Le paradis d'Anne Béranger !"" • Signed autograph postcard addressed to André-Philippe Hersin‎

‎Sénégal Senegal 1970. Fine. Sénégal Senegal s. d. ca 1970 14.80 x 10.60 cm une carte postale Autograph postcard signed by Maurice Béjart to André-Philippe Hersin. A few lines in blue ink on the verso of a color photographic view of the Ziguinchor market Senegal. Journalist dance critic and editor-in-chief of Les Saisons de la danse Hersin was a staunch advocate of Béjart’s choreographic style and devoted laudatory articles in his journal as well as monographic booklets to his work. ""Le paradis d'Anne Béranger ! Je ramènerai moi-même certaines tenues surprenantes. Je pense souvent à vous ici ne riez pas je vous embrasse. Maurice"" In 1977 Maurice Béjart founded the Mudra-Afrique school in Dakar thereby honoring the memory of his Senegalese great-grandmother Fatou Diagne grandmother of his father the métis philosopher Gaston Berger. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 76888

‎Maurice BEJART‎

‎"Voilà ma nouvelle étoile."" • Signed autograph postcard addressed to André-Philippe Hersin shipped from Cairo‎

‎Le Caire Cairo 1970. Fine. Le Caire Cairo s. d. ca 1970 15 x 10 cm une carte postale Autograph postcard signed by Maurice Béjart addressed to André-Philippe Hersin written in violet felt-tip pen on the verso of a photomontage showing a belly dancer in front of a mosque which appears to be the Al-Azhar mosque. ""Voilà ma nouvelle étoile. Je pense à vous souvent. Affectueusement. Maurice"" ""Here is my new star. I think of you often. Affectionately. Maurice"" Journalist dance critic and editor-in-chief of Les Saisons de la danse Hersin was a great champion of Béjart's choreographic style and devoted laudatory articles to him in his magazine as well as monographic fascicles of his work. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83032

‎Maurice BEJART‎

‎Journal intime autographe • Autograph personal diary for the year 1969‎

‎1969. Fine. Autograph personal diary for the year 1969 1969 16.80 x 21.60 cm carnet en spirales Personal diary handwritten by Maurice Béjart written in a 1969 diary celebrating the centenary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi. 52 handwritten leaves written in red and blue pen in a spiral-bound notebook. This diary features amongst Béjart's very rare privately owned manuscripts the choreographer's archives being shared between his house in Brussels the Béjart foundation in Lausanne and the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie. The choreographer Maurice Béjart's diary written during the year 1969. An extremely rare collection of thoughts questions and introspections from the point of view of Hinduism and Buddhist wisdom which Béjart adopts following his first trip to India in 1967. The diary is an emblematic testimony of the indo-hippie era of the 1960s spiritual and artistic renaissance that inspired numerous ballets of the choreographer Messe pour le temps présent Bhakti Les Vainqueurs. A selection from this diary was published by Maurice Béjart in the second volume of his memoirs La Vie de Qui Flammarion 1996. During the year 1969 Béjart wrote daily notes in a diary published in memory of Mahatma Gandhi. Fascinated by Hindu mysticism since his trip to India in 1967 he filled in this spiritual journal with numerous mantras and prayers “Krishna guide my chariot the light is at the end of the path. OM”; “Buddha is everywhere”; “Let God enter but how to open the door” and he calls upon the Hindu deities as well as the Bodhisattvas Mañjur et Tr – soothing figures of the Buddhist pantheon. Béjart's “Indian period” was particularly rich in choreographic masterpieces the progress of which can be followed in his diary Baudelaire at the beginning of the year the first performance of the Vainqueurs in Brussels and the Quatre fils Aymon in Avignon as well as the filming and screening of his Indian ballet Bhakti. At the crossroads of New Age and the hippie movement Béjart's “conversion” is symptomatic of an era that refuses progress and has a thirst for spirituality: “Calcutta is not India but our western face. It is not religion or traditional thinking that is to blame but capitalism. India a rich country before colonisation.” The Beatle's visit to the guru Maharishi's shram and Ravi Shankar's concert at Woodstock in 1969 marks the beginning of a real western passion for Indian music and culture which was decisive in Béjart's ballets at the time. In Béjart's eyes India presents itself as a place where art and ancestral traditions have not suffered the perversions of positivity. In his creations he seeks to express the spirit of a culture that intimately links the body and the spirit and in which dance plays a major cosmic and spiritual role. Included in his ballets were Indian dance systems and Vedic songs that were discovered thanks to Alain Daniélou – in 1968 he opened the Messe pour temps présent with a long vînâ solo that lasted fifteen minutes: “Béjart is in his Hindu quarter-hour. And over there Hindu quarter hours can last for hours.” commented Jean Vilar director of the Avignon festival. A wave of Indian fashion also passes through the costumes of the Ballet du XXe siècle company: large silk trousers tunics jewellery and oriental eyes. In the diary Béjart states that there is “no truth without yoga” an art discovered from an Indian master that can be found in many of his ballets in the form of dance exercises on the barre. He also decides to make Bhakti “an act of Faith” by filming himself the ballet choreographer and during the summer he prepares the Vainqueurs an unusual meeting between Wagner and traditional Indian ragas. Beyond the prolific artist we also discover the choreographer's troubled personality in the diary in the grips of doubt and melancholy: “vague state of physical weightlessness and moral emptiness. Lethargy or laziness. Weakness. Dizziness. Drowsiness. Unconsciousness.” Desp unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 65528

‎Maurice BEDEL‎

‎Le mariage des couleurs‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1951. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1951 12 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 130 numbered copies on pur fil paper the only large paper copies. A very good copy. Gallimard unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 46377

‎Maurice BEAUBOURG‎

‎Les joueurs de boules de Saint-Mandé‎

‎Paris: H. Simonis Empis 1899. Fine. H. Simonis Empis Paris 1899 12 x 19 cm broché First edition one of the numbered copies of the first issue printed on the press only 6 copies on Holland paper were printed. Lacks to spine one tear at foot of joint two small adhesive marks on first cover. H. Simonis Empis unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 11486

‎Maurice BERDON - ANONYME‎

‎Maistre Pierre Pathelin farce du quinzième siècle‎

‎Paris: Pour Les Bibliophiles du Palais 1927. Fine. Pour Les Bibliophiles du Palais Paris 1927 19 x 27 cm broché sous chemise et étui Illustrated with 28 original lithographs by Maurice Berdon and printed in a numbered edition of 200 copies on handmade laid paper from the Rives mills. A handsome copy spine of the chemise lightly sunned without consequence. Pour Les Bibliophiles du Palais unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 48009

‎Maurice BEJART‎

‎Manuscrit autographe à propos de la mémoire et de sa pièce ""A-6-Roc"" • Handwritten manuscript regarding the memory and his play A-6 ROC‎

‎1991. Fine. “Let us never forget the glory of human nature. We are the greatest Gods Christs and Buddhas are but waves on the boundless ocean that I am” s. d. ca 1991 21 x 29.70 cm 9 feuillets Handwritten manuscript signed by the choreographer Maurice Béjart sent to his publisher with a handwritten letter on two leaves. 9 leaves 145 lines written in blue pen. Hand-pagination of the manuscript 1-7 and the letter to his publisher a-b. Maurice Béjart's handwritten reflections entitled “Mémoire” “Memoirs” make up the last chapter of his work Béjart-theâtre: A-6-ROC Editions Plume 1992 regarding his eponymous play that was created the same year in Lausanne. After the foundation of “Béjart Ballet Lausanne” and his definitive departure from Belgium in 1987 Béjart continues to stage operas produce films and publish several books novel memories personal diary. In addition he writes and stages three plays: La Reine Verte Casta Diva and finally A-6-ROC to which dedicates a book. The play features seven characters in search of a lost paradise and calls for a deep reflection on memory . The last chapter of his book on A-6-ROC the manuscript of which we have here is a mixture of philosophical thought and commentaries on the play: “The first idea for the scenery for A-6-Roc was an enormous library . where the two characters in a drama called life no-longer know if the words they say are theirs or those of the generations who preceded them in this prison of knowledge.” Implicitly the author-choreographer maintains that the memory although salutary for Man harms the creative faculties. A series of questions on “Me” where one can detect Montaigne's influence follows: “I am a series of moments of looks of emotions of expectations. I am the fruit that I eat the air that I breath the cat that I stroke the book that I read the look that I remember.”   Provenance: Maurice Béjart’s personal archives. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 65391

‎Maurice BERENGER‎

‎Mémoire de la météorologie nationale : Essai d'étude météorologique du bassin méditerranéen‎

‎Paris: Secrétariat général à l'aviation civile et commerciale 1955. Fine. Secrétariat général à l'aviation civile et commerciale Paris 1955 24 x 31 cm agrafé First edition illustrated with 25 figures in the text and a large folding map at the beginning of the volume. Unlettered spine. Rare and handsome copy. Secrétariat général à l'aviation civile et commerciale unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 72621

‎Maurice BEDEL‎

‎Philippine‎

‎Paris: Nrf 1930. Fine. Nrf Paris 1930 17 x 23 cm broché First edition one of 109 numbered copies on Lafuma Navarre paper and recomposed in Tellière quarto format deluxe copy. A very handsome copy. Nrf unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 3883

‎Maurice BITTER‎

‎Le cri du silence‎

‎Barcelona: Club Lorca 1967. Fine. Club Lorca Barcelona 1967 14 x 18.50 cm broché First edition on ordinary paper. Handsome copy despite the spine and boards being slightly and marginally sunned. Autograph inscription signed by Maurice Bitter to his friend the poet Charles Dobzynski with a manuscript annotation by Maurice Bitter on page 17. Club Lorca hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 72132

‎Maurice BLANCHOT‎

‎"Je ne croyais pas que la beauté des vers y fût capable d'une actrice aussi vivante. Que la vie et le style peuvent être à ce point associés que l'harmonie engendrât l'horreur et la beauté le déchirement."" • Autograph letter of congratulations dated and signed addressed to Marcelle Tassencourt for the excellence of her interpretation of Antigone‎

‎Paris: s. n. 1944. Fine. s. n. Paris s.d.1944 21 x 27 cm une feuille une enveloppe Autograph letter signed and dated one page from Maurice Blanchot addressed to the theater actress Marcelle Tassencourt wife of Thierry Maulnier 18 lines in black ink. Central folds inherent to postal handling envelope included. Maurice Blanchot praises the acting performance of Marcelle Tassencourt who created in 1944 the role of Antigone in Robert Garnier's play directed by her husband Thierry Maulnier:  "". cette Antigone m'a beaucoup touché. Je ne croyais pas que la beauté des vers y fût capable d'une actrice aussi vivante. Que la vie et le style peuvent être à ce point associés que l'harmonie engendrât l'horreur et la beauté le déchirement c'est que je n'imaginais pas pouvoir ressentir aussi complètement et que la plupart des spectateurs me semblent avoir ressenti autour de moi et chez moi."" . this Antigone moved me greatly. I did not believe that the beauty of the verses could be capable of such a lively actress. That life and style can be so closely associated that harmony could engender horror and beauty create heartbreak is something I never imagined I could feel so completely and that most of the spectators around me and within me seemed to have felt. Maurice Blanchot particularly emphasizes the actress's perfect mastery of facial expressions:  "". je penserais qu'il y a en vous le pouvoir de confiner à quelques-uns de vos traits - et en particulier à votre regard - les sentiments que les acteurs en général répartissent et éparpillent mollement dans l'ensemble du visage. Mais ce pouvoir ne s'appelle-t-il pas concentration naturelmement je n'ai rien dit."" . I would think that you have the power to confine to some of your features - and particularly to your gaze - the feelings that actors in general distribute and scatter weakly across the entire face. But is this power not called concentration naturally I have said nothing. s. n. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 88349