‎Collectibles‎

‎Maurice BLANCHOT - (Jean-Paul SARTRE)‎

‎Les romans de Sartre. Manuscrit autographe • Sartre’s Novels. Autograph Manuscript‎

‎1945. Fine. 1945 - 19 pages 1/2 in-8 Autograph manuscript of the author of 19 pages and a half in-8 published in the October issue No. 10 of L'Arche Complete two-sided manuscript very dense writing with many erasures corrections and additions. Since the 1930s Maurice Blanchot regularly devotes articles to Jean-Paul Sartre and especially to his novels. The publication of the first two volumes of the trilogy The paths of freedom was to give rise to the almost simultaneous publication of a rather short chronicle in Dimanche paysage No. 19 October 21 1945 and this large study entitled ""The Novels of Sartre "". This one which goes beyond the circumscribed frame of the literary news intends to analyze what makes the specificity of these works namely the use of the ""thesis"": ""One can wonder why the thesis novel has bad reputation"" . Grievances seem as numerous on the side of the thesis as on the side of the novel; the theoretical affirmation complains of the adventure to which it is committed and from which it derives an additional truth. . In a novel of this kind we reproach the characters for being lifeless but it is ""the idea"" that is lifeless: it only looks like itself it has only its own sense . . "" Therefore Blanchot salutes Sartre's meeting of exceptional philosophical as well as literary capacities while underlining that it is also the fruit of his time: ""It is true that fiction works are more and more besieged by theoretical aims and that theoretical works are more and more a call to problems that require a complete expression. Existentialists or not novelists and philosophers pursue similar experiments and research . . "" Moreover he praises Sartre's ability to make his novels both an experience in itself and ""the story of an experience"" an essential concept for Blanchot and which had emerged as one of the central themes of his first critical collection False Pas 1943. And it is this same quality that he lends by the way to Simone de Beauvoir's Guest a ""remarkable work"" . Thus at the end of a reflection which reveals the admiration of Blanchot for the Sartrean novel and particularly for Nausea composed at the same time as his Thomas the Obscure he concludes: ""In short could not it be possible not that the novel was much less the enemy of the thesis than it is said ""The manuscript and multiple deletions and additions then reflects the hesitation of Blanchot in formulating the end of his demonstration yet clear in the finished text"" This only: to respect the status of bad faith that is its morality it to recognize a power of transformation of crystallization by the transparency of discovery through exposure which is its reality and finally having formed of its substance existing only by its duration to triumph by disappearing according to the movement proper to art to recover in affirmation and to fulfill itself in failure - which is its truth. "" The text will be repeated with some corrections in La Part du Feu 1949. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 48343

‎Maurice BLANCHOT‎

‎Lettre tapuscrite à Sartre‎

‎1960. Fine. 2 décembre 1960 26.70 x 20.90 cm 5 feuillets in-4 Draft typescript of letter to Jean-Paul Sartre with autograph corrections and with a second version of the first page and typescript with autograph corrections of ""Le monde en question Cours du monde"" project for La Revue internationale Set of five typescript leaves rectos only with the exception of one leaf recto-verso with corrections in red and black ballpoint pen in Maurice Blanchot's hand. This important collection bears witness to the exchanges between Maurice Blanchot and Jean-Paul Sartre around the famous ""Déclaration sur le droit à l'insoumission dans la guerre d'Algérie"" and the publication project that resulted from it La Revue internationale. Known as the ""Manifeste des 121"" this declaration signed by numerous intellectuals and artists and published on September 6 1960 had been drafted by Dionys Mascolo and Jean Schuster assisted by Maurice Blanchot in anticipation of the trial of the Jeanson network a group of French militants supporting the FLN and with the aim of informing public opinion about the protest movement against the Algerian War and its anti-democratic excesses. Among the signatories was of course Sartre. The manifesto had made many personalities aware of the influence they could exercise in public debate even in the course of History. It was in this context that in autumn 1960 Maurice Blanchot Dionys Mascolo and Elio Vittorini decided to create a review that would be not literary but critical whose purpose would be to continue this action. They sought the help of Jean-Paul Sartre whose extraordinary aura would benefit the publication favorably. In his letter to Sartre Blanchot attempts to convince the philosopher to join the project: ""Vous m'avez rappelé ce que j'ai dû dire quelquefois et que j'ai toujours intimement pensé : que la Déclaration ne trouverait son vrai sens que si elle était le commencement de quelque chose."" ""You reminded me of what I must have said sometimes and what I have always intimately thought: that the Declaration would only find its true meaning if it were the beginning of something."" "". Je voudrais dire mon sentiment propre : je crois que si nous voulons représenter comme il faut sans équivoque le changement dont nous avons les uns et les autres le pressentiment si nous voulons le rendre plus réel et l'approfondir dans sa présence mouvante c'est seulement à partir d'un organe nouveau que nous pourrons le faire. A partir de là si l'on voit Sartre et d'autres avec lui parmi les 121 décider de s'exprimer en cette forme choisie délibérément comme nouvelle chacun "" ""I would like to express my own feeling: I believe that if we want to represent as we should unequivocally the change that we all have a premonition of if we want to make it more real and deepen it in its moving presence it is only from a new organ that we will be able to do so. From there if we see Sartre and others with him among the 121 decide to express themselves in this form deliberately chosen as new everyone"" "". comprendra que vraiment nous entrons dans une nouvelle phase et que quelque chose de décisif a lieu qui cherche à s'affirmer."" ""will understand that we are truly entering a new phase and that something decisive is taking place that seeks to assert itself."" But Sartre would refuse to commit to the review. However during the first six months of 1961 Blanchot devoted himself body and soul to the project hoping it would come to fruition. The typescript included here ""Le monde en question Cours du monde"" reveals the table of contents he envisioned for the first issue: texts on destalinization the situation of the German press intellectual compartmentalization in France and Italy hunger strikes and the Berlin Wall and utopia. The review would never see the light of day to the great despair of Blanchot who was deeply enthusiastic about the idea of collective and international writi unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 48321

‎Maurice BLANCHOT - (Claude ROY)‎

‎Nouvelles et récits. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets‎

‎s. l. Paris: S. n. Journal des débats 1944. Fine. 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 décrit."" ""Claude Roy's style responds marvelously to this play of nuances: it too is full of echoes that fade away of words that reverberate: it is free disciplined full of inventions and faithful to the reality it describes."" 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 page of newspaper about seven octavo pages the young author of ""Thomas l'obscur"" takes his first steps in the field of literary criticism and thus inaugurates a theoretical work that he would later develop in his numerous essays from ""La Part du feu"" to ""L'Entretien infini"" and ""L'Écriture du désastre."" From the first articles Blanchot demonstrates an analytical acuity far exceeding the literary current events that motivate their writing. Oscillating between classics and moderns first-rate writers and minor novelists he establishes in his chronicles the foundations of a critical thought that would mark the second half of the twentieth century. Transformed by writing and by war Blanchot breaks through a thought exercised ""in the name of the other"" with the violent Maurrassian certainties of his youth. Not without paradox he then transforms literary criticism into a philosophical act of intellectual resistance to barbarism at the very heart of an ""openly Maréchaliste"" newspaper: ""To burn a book to write one these are the two acts between which culture inscribes its contrary oscillations"" Le Livre In Journal des Débats January 20 1943. In 2007 the Cahiers de la NRF brought together under the direction of Christophe Bident all the literary chronicles not yet published in volumes with this pertinent analysis of Blanchot's critical work: ""novels poems essays give rise to a singular reflection always more confident in its own rhetoric delivered more to the echo of the impossible or to the sirens of disappearance. . Not without contradictions or sidesteps and in the feverish certainty of a work that begins . these articles reveal the genealogy of a critic who transformed the occasion of the chronicle into the necessity of thought."" C. Bident. The autograph manuscripts of Maurice Blanchot are extremely rare. S. n.[ Journal des débats] unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 44934

‎Maurice BLANCHOT‎

‎Romans nouveaux. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets‎

‎s. l. Paris: S. n. Journal des débats 1942. Fine. 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 Grout Prix Goncourt winner in 1943 Maurice Toesca and Roger de Lafforest: « On voit qu'à ces quatre ouvrages la monotonie des moyens l'élusion du temps la sobriété du ton et surtout le caractère théorique du thème principal donnent l'apparence d'un conte d'une longue nouvelle qui se montre ou qui se cache sous la figure d'un roman. M. Georges Magnane n'a pu faire que son livre ne paraisse peu de chose au regard des descriptions sportives dont il l'a enrichi : l'histoire qu'il raconte ne s'impose pas ; elle reste vide ; elle s'efface. De même chez M. Toesca et M. de Lafforest il y a comme une absence d'âme qui rend inutile le jeu intellectuel dont ils ont soigneusement tendu les fils. L'esprit ne retient que l'intention qui comme telle lui paraît assez insignifiante ; à quoi bon un livre si l'art ne se rend pas inséparable de la pensée par le style dont il la marque Il y a plus de secret dans le récit de M. Marius Grout et c'est ce poids lourd ce silence grave ce plus indiscernable qui malgré toutes les explications que l'auteur a cru bon nous donner s'ajoutent à son œuvre comme la vérité qui ne peut être dite et l'empêchent de n'être plus rien lorsque le lecteur en a découvert la conclusion. » ""We see that these four works through the monotony of their means the evasion of time the sobriety of tone and especially the theoretical character of their main theme take on the appearance of a tale of a long short story that shows itself or hides under the guise of a novel. M. Georges Magnane could not prevent his book from appearing insignificant compared to the sporting descriptions with which he enriched it: the story he tells does not impose itself; it remains empty; it fades away. Similarly in M. Toesca and M. de Lafforest there is something like an absence of soul that renders useless the intellectual game whose threads they have carefully woven. The mind retains only the intention which as such seems quite insignificant to it; what good is a book if art does not make itself inseparable from thought through the style with which it marks it There is more mystery in M. Marius Grout's narrative and it is this heavy weight this grave silence this more indiscernible element that despite all the explanations the author thought fit to give us add to his work like truth that cannot be told and prevent it from becoming nothing when the reader has discovered its conclusion."" Between April 1941 and August 1944 Maurice Blanchot published 173 articles on recently published books in the ""Chronicle of Intellectual Life"" in Journal des Débats. In half a newspaper page about seven octavo pages the young author of ""Thomas l'obscur"" takes his first steps in the field of literary criticism and thus inaugurates a theoretical work that he would later develop in his numerous essays from ""La Part du feu"" to ""L'Entretien infini"" and ""L'Écriture du désastre"". From the first articles Blanchot demonstrates an acuity of analysis far exceeding the literary current events that motivate their writing. Oscillating between classics and moderns first-rate writers and minor novelists he establishes in his chronicles the foundations of critical thought that would mark the second half of the 20th century. T S. n.[ Journal des débats] unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 44943

‎Maurice BLANCHOT‎

‎Thomas l'obscur‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1950. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1950 12 x 19 cm broché Edition with some parts in first edition of which there were no deluxe copies a Service de Presse advance copy. Paper yellowed as usual. Gallimard unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 79914

‎Maurice BLANCHOT‎

‎Tradition et surréalisme. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets • Tradition and Surrealism. Complete Autograph Manuscript and Typescript‎

‎s. l. Paris: S. n. Journal des débats 1943. Fine. 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 principles of Surrealism as perfect demonstration of Hourticq's remarks. In a France obsessed with rejecting Degenerate Art Blanchot reveals the contradictions of traditionalists: ""they admit that art in general precedes science and it is in the name of past science . that they condemn new movements in art."" Blanchot under the guise of literary criticism once again questions his era: . It would still be good to research whether precisely modern science does not recognize itself in the ""deformed decomposed obsolete universe that art has made familiar to our eyes."" Between April 1941 and August 1944 Maurice Blanchot published in the ""Chronicle of intellectual life"" of Journal des Débats 173 articles on recently published books. In half a newspaper page approximately seven octavo pages the young author of ""Thomas l'obscur"" takes his first steps in the field of literary criticism and thus inaugurates a theoretical work that he will later develop in his numerous essays from ""La Part du feu"" to ""L'Entretien infini"" and ""L'Écriture du désastre"". From the first articles Blanchot demonstrates an analytical acuity far exceeding the literary current events that motivate their writing. Oscillating between classics and moderns first-rate writers and minor novelists he establishes in his chronicles the foundations of critical thinking that will mark the second half of the 20th century. Transformed by writing and by war Blanchot breaks through thinking exercised ""in the name of the other"" with the violent Maurrassian certainties of his youth. Not without paradox he then transforms literary criticism into a philosophical act of intellectual resistance to barbarity at the very heart of an ""openly Pétainist"" journal: ""To burn a book to write one are the two acts between which culture inscribes its contrary oscillations"" Le Livre In Journal des Débats January 20 1943. In 2007 the Cahiers de la NRF brought together under the direction of Christophe Bident all the literary chronicles not yet published in volumes with this pertinent analysis of Blanchot's critical work: ""novels poems essays give rise to singular reflection ever more confident in its own rhetoric delivered more to the echo of the impossible or to the sirens of disappearance. . Not without contradictions or sidesteps and in the feverish certainty of a work beginning . these articles reveal the genealogy of a critic who transformed the occasion of the chronicle into the necessity of thought."" C. Bident. Autograph manuscripts by Maurice Blanchot are extremely rare. S. n.[ Journal des débats] unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 44960

‎Maurice BLANCHOT - (Alfred JARRY)‎

‎Un roman de Jarry. - Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit signé complets • A Novel by Jarry – Complete Autograph Manuscript and Signed Typescript‎

‎s. l. Paris: S. n. Journal des débats 1944. Fine. 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 two and a half pages in octavo published in the issue of April 13 1944 of the Journal des Débats. Complete recto-verso manuscript in a very dense hand with numerous deletions corrections and additions. Accompanied by the complete signed typescript. A review published on the occasion of the posthumous release of Jarry’s novel La Dragonne. In this review devoted to Alfred Jarry and Père Ubu Maurice Blanchot examines the confusion between the two and its consequences: « . on peut penser que Jarry en s'entêtant à être le Père Ubu a pendant sa vie gaspillé une partie de ses ressources d'écrivain et après sa mort égaré le jugement littéraire sur sa véritable valeur. » Yet this confusion testifies to the coherence of the author: « Chez Jarry le choix d'un masque aussi peu flatteur a un sens fort clair. Il y a d'abord une volonté de mettre à mal tout sérieux et particulièrement cette volonté même ; il n'est pas question de tracer des frontières au ridicule ; on rit d'abord de soi on en rit parce que ce rire n'est qu'un écho du vide. Et puis ce double grotesque que l'auteur revendique comme une représentation dont il est fier affirme sa complicité pleine de défi avec les travers qu'il caricature. » La Dragonne Jarry’s final work then issued by Gallimard would therefore strike Blanchot for « le sérieux avec lequel Jarry a accepté son métier de romancier » while he also praised « les soudains mouvements d'imagination poétique qui dérangent le plan ». The only monographic text Blanchot devoted to Jarry. Between April 1941 and August 1944 Maurice Blanchot published in the ""Chronique de la vie intellectuelle"" of the Journal des Débats 173 articles on newly released books. In a half page of newspaper around seven octavo pages the young author of Thomas l'obscur made his first steps in literary criticism thereby inaugurating the theoretical work he would later develop in numerous essays from La Part du feu to L'Entretien infini and L'Écriture du désastre. From the very first articles Blanchot displayed an acuity of analysis far surpassing the literary news that occasioned his writing. Oscillating between classics and moderns major writers and minor novelists his reviews laid the foundations of a critical thought that would shape the second half of the 20th century. Transformed by writing and by the war Blanchot gradually broke through a thinking exercised ""in the name of the other"" with the violent Maurrassian certainties of his youth. Not without paradox he turned literary criticism into a philosophical act of intellectual resistance to barbarism at the very heart of a newspaper ""ouvertement maréchaliste"": ""Brûler un livre en écrire sont les deux actes entre lesquels la culture inscrit ses oscillations contraires"" Le Livre in Journal des Débats January 20 1943. In 2007 the Cahiers de la NRF gathered under the direction of Christophe Bident all the literary reviews not yet collected in volume form along with this perceptive analysis of Blanchot’s critical work: ""romans poèmes essais donnent lieu à une réflexion singulière toujours plus sûre de sa propre rhétorique livrée davantage à l'écho de l'impossible ou aux sirènes de la disparition. . Non sans contradictions ni pas de côté et dans la certitude fiévreuse d'une œuvre qui commence . ces articles révèlent la généalogie d'un critique qui a transformé l'occasion de la chronique en nécessité de la pensée."" C. Bident. Autograph manuscripts by Maurice Blanchot are of the utmost rarity. S. n.[ Journal des débats] unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 44930

‎Maurice BLANCHOT‎

‎Voyages de Montesquieu. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets. • Montesquieu’s Travels. Complete autograph manuscript and typescript‎

‎s. l. Paris: S. n. Journal des débats 1943. Fine. 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 us naked pressed by the meaning that illuminates them"" and which from ""considerable material drew only a small book discreetly reduced to the essential."" 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 about seven octavo pages the young author of ""Thomas l'obscur"" takes his first steps in the field of literary criticism and thus inaugurates a theoretical work that he would later develop in his numerous essays from ""La Part du feu"" to ""L'Entretien infini"" and ""L'Écriture du désastre"". From his first articles Blanchot demonstrates an analytical acuity far exceeding the literary current events that motivated their writing. Oscillating between classics and moderns first-rate writers and minor novelists he establishes in his chronicles the foundations of a critical thought that would mark the second half of the 20th century. Transformed by writing and by the war Blanchot breaks through a thought exercised ""in the name of the other"" with the violent Maurrassian certainties of his youth. Not without paradox he then transforms literary criticism into a philosophical act of intellectual resistance to barbarism at the very heart of an ""openly Maréchaliste"" newspaper: ""To burn a book to write one are the two acts between which culture inscribes its contrary oscillations"" Le Livre In Journal des Débats January 20 1943. In 2007 the Cahiers de la NRF brought together under the direction of Christophe Bident all the literary chronicles not yet published in volumes with this pertinent analysis of Blanchot's critical work: ""novels poems essays give rise to a singular reflection ever more sure of its own rhetoric delivered more to the echo of the impossible or to the sirens of disappearance. . Not without contradictions or sidesteps and in the feverish certainty of a work that begins . these articles reveal the genealogy of a critic who transformed the occasion of the chronicle into necessity of thought."" C. Bident. Autograph manuscripts by Maurice Blanchot are extremely rare. S. n.[ Journal des débats] unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 44963

‎Maurice BOUCHOR‎

‎Contes parisiens en vers‎

‎Paris: Charpentier 1880. Fine. Charpentier Paris 1880 11.50 x 18.50 cm relié First edition one of 10 copies on Hollande paper the only large paper copies. Jansenist red morocco binding by Marius Michel spine in five compartments date to foot marbled endpapers and pastedowns red morocco frame to pastedowns with seven gilt fillets covers preserved all edges gilt. This copy is enriched with two autograph letters by the author of 3 and 2 pages length respectively. A fine copy in a superb binding by Marius Michel. Provenance : collection of Marius Michel with his ex libris pasted onto one of the endpapers. Charpentier unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 27133

‎Maurice BOUCHOR‎

‎Les symboles‎

‎Paris: Charpentier & Cie 1888. Fine. Charpentier & Cie Paris 1888 12 x 19 cm broché First edition on ordinary paper. Handsome autograph inscription from Maurice Bouchor to José Maria de Heredia. A little light spotting principally to covers. Charpentier & Cie unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 44162

‎Maurice BOUVIER-AJAM‎

‎Recherches sur la genèse et la date d'apparition des corporations médiévales en France‎

‎Paris: R. Pichon & R. Durand-Auzias 1978. Fine. R. Pichon & R. Durand-Auzias Paris 1978 15 x 20.50 cm broché The first edition of which there were no deluxe copies. Signed autograph inscription from Maurice Bouvier-Ajam to Madame Bastiel. Handsome copy complete with publisher's slip. R. Pichon & R. Durand-Auzias unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 51411

‎Maurice BRANSIET‎

‎La vie et les amours tourmentées de Sacher-Masoch le père du 'masochisme'‎

‎s. l.: Quignon 1930. Fine. Quignon s. l. s. d. circa 1930 12 x 19 cm broché First edition of which there were no deluxe copies false statement of edition. A very small repaired tear at the head of one joint marginal worming to the front board. Quignon unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 10290

‎Maurice CAREME‎

‎De feu et de cendre‎

‎Paris: Fernand Nathan 1974. Fine. Fernand Nathan Paris 1974 9.50 x 13.50 cm broché First edition. Signed autograph inscription from Maurice Careme to Jean Guéhenno. Handsome copy. Fernand Nathan unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 40858

‎Maurice CHEVALIER‎

‎". Puis je vais chanter quatre semaines. en afrique du sud. pour goualer une dernière fois en angliche avant New York en septembre prochain."" • Signed autograph letter addressed to Alice Rim‎

‎Marnes-la-Coquette: S. n. 1955. Fine. S. n. Marnes-la-Coquette 8 Mai 1955 21.50 x 27.50 cm une feuille Autograph letter signed and dated by Maurice Chevalier from his property ""La Louque"" in Marnes-la-Coquette to Alice Rim 34 lines in blue ink envelope included praising the sensitivity of his correspondent who compares herself to a cow. He also writes to her about savoring his freedom to be independent and manage his career alone. Fold mark inherent to the mailing. The letter is addressed to Caro Canaille pen name of Alice Rim Carlo's wife: ""5 - 5- 55 Dear Caro thank you for your letter where sensitivity - warm sympathy - passes through the words like rays of life. I will be delighted to read your play which I am quite certain is not laid by a cow as you unjustly call yourself. One never feels the heart of real cows - one simply feels their kindness. I will be in Marnes for three weeks starting from the 16th of this month. Then I will sing for four weeks. in South Africa. to croon one last time in English before New York next September. The more I go on the more I relish my independence as a singing craftsman and the responsibilities that I face - alone - working in my room. Very truly yours. Maurice"". Carlo Rim was a Provençal writer author of ""Ma belle Marseille"" a caricaturist a filmmaker and was notably the friend of Fernandel Raimu and Marcel Pagnol but also of Max Jacob and André Salmon whom he met in Sanary. S. n. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 83190

‎Maurice CHAPELAIN‎

‎Amoralités familières‎

‎Paris: Grasset 1964. Fine. Grasset Paris 1964 12 x 18.50 cm broché First edition one of 37 numbered copies on Holland paper deluxe copy. A small tear of no consequence at the foot of the spine. Grasset unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 73258

‎Maurice CHEVALIER‎

‎Carte postale autographe dédicacée de Maurice Chevalier adressée à l'écrivain Caro Canaille la femme de Carlo Rim‎

‎1971. Fine. 1971 14 x 10.50 cm une carte postale Autograph signed photographic postcard with 9 lines by Maurice Chevalier addressed to his friend Caro Canaille wife of the Provençal writer filmmaker and caricaturist Carlo Rim. Handsome copy. The postcard represents Maurice Chevalier's property in the Paris region at Marles-la-Coquette with a photograph of him in a medallion in the upper left corner of the card. ""Merci chère Caro Canaille. Votre lettre est belle affectueuse et touchante. Bien des années se sont passées sans devoir changer la sympathie qui nous avait rapprochés. Affectueusement. Maurice Chevalier 1971."" ""Thank you dear Caro Canaille. Your letter is beautiful affectionate and touching. Many years have passed without having to change the sympathy that brought us together. Affectionately. Maurice Chevalier 1971."" unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 80358

‎Maurice CHEVALIER‎

‎Carte postale photographique dédicacée à Alice Rim représentant sa propriété ""La Louque"" à Marnes-la-Coquette‎

‎Marnes-la-Coquette: S. n. 1954. Fine. S. n. Marnes-la-Coquette 10 Octobre 1954 10.50 x 10.50 cm une feuille Photographic postcard inscribed by Maurice Chevalier to Alice Rim depicting his property ""La Louque"" at Marnes-la-Coquette: ""Chère Caro"" ""Dear Caro"" le pseudonyme de plume d'Alice Rim était Caro Canaille ""the pen name of Alice Rim was Caro Canaille"" vous savez que je suis surchargé de travail et qu'en plus je ne pas très bien le bonhomme des cocktails ou expositions ou autres signatures. Je n'y suis jamais à l'aise. Je suis très heureux de notre nouvelle sympathie et suis certain que la vie nous permettra de le confirmer."" ""you know that I am overloaded with work and that furthermore I am not very good at being the fellow for cocktails or exhibitions or other signings. I am never comfortable there. I am very happy about our new friendship and am certain that life will allow us to confirm it."" S. n. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 81596

‎Maurice CHEVALIER‎

‎Carte postale photographique dédicacée à Alice Rim représentant une femme du Swaziland peinte par Kent Cottrell‎

‎Johannesburg 1955. Fine. Johannesburg 15 Juin 1955 10.50 x 14.50 cm une feuille Photographic postcard inscribed by Maurice Chevalier to Alice Rim depicting a woman from Swaziland painted by Kent Cottrell. The postcard is addressed from Johannesburg to Caro Canaille pen name of Alice Rim Carlo's wife. Carlo Rim was a Provençal writer author of ""Ma belle Marseille"" a caricaturist a filmmaker and was notably the friend of Fernandel Raimu and Marcel Pagnol but also of Max Jacob and André Salmon whom he met in Sanary. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 81618

‎Maurice CHEVALIER‎

‎Carte postale photographique dédicacée à Alice Rim représentant Mistinguett en 1903‎

‎La cité des livres 1963. Fine. La cité des livres 8 Juin 1963 10.50 x 14.50 cm une feuille Photographic postcard inscribed by Maurice Chevalier to Alice Rim whose pen name was Caro Canaille depicting Mistinguett in 1903. ""Chère Caro Canaille comme vous êtes généreuse de vous donner le mal de me faire savoir une si touchante opinion de petite fille. Mais vous m'avez toujours montré votre amitié. Bonnes vacances. Maurice Chevalier. 8.6.63."" ""Dear Caro Canaille how generous you are to take the trouble to let me know such a touching opinion from a little girl. But you have always shown me your friendship. Happy holidays. Maurice Chevalier. 8.6.63."" Carlo Rim was a Provençal writer author of ""Ma belle Marseille"" a caricaturist a filmmaker and was notably the friend of Fernandel Raimu and Marcel Pagnol but also of Max Jacob and André Salmon whom he met in Sanary. La cité des livres unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 81831

‎Maurice CHEVALIER‎

‎Lettre autographe signée adressée à Alice Rim lui présentant ses voeux pour l'année 1955‎

‎Marnes-la-Coquette: S. n. 1955. Fine. S. n. Marnes-la-Coquette 3 Janvier 1955 21 x 27 cm une feuille une enveloppe Autograph letter dated and signed by Maurice Chevalier addressed from his property ""La Louque"" in Marnes-la-Coquette to Alice Rim 10 lines in blue ink envelope included. Crease mark inherent to folding for mailing letter with letterhead featuring Maurice Chevalier's famous boater hat in upper left corner. The letter is addressed to Caro Canaille pen name of Alice Rim Carlo's wife: ""3 - 1- 55 Chère Caro merci de la pensée. J'arrive de Londres où j'ai fonctionné à la T.V. et me prépare à roucouler içi - la - et la bas sic Que 1955 vous apporte santé - travail - amour. Ami. Chevalier"". ""Dear Caro thank you for the thought. I'm coming from London where I worked on T.V. and am preparing to coo here - there - and over there. May 1955 bring you health - work - love. Friend. Chevalier"" Carlo Rim was a Provençal writer author of ""Ma belle Marseille"" a caricaturist a filmmaker and was notably the friend of Fernandel Raimu and Marcel Pagnol but also of Max Jacob and André Salmon whom he met in Sanary. S. n. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 81924

‎Maurice CHABAS‎

‎manifeste sur l'admission des oeuvres modernes aux expositions d'art français à l'étranger • Unpublished autograph manuscript‎

‎1897. Fine. s. d. 17.70 x 22.80 cm Deux feuillets et un papillon encollé Unpublished autograph manuscript signed by the symbolist painter Maurice Chabas on ""the admission of modern works to French art exhibitions abroad"". Two leaves and a slip pasted on the first page. Crossed-out passages fold marks and small marginal tears not affecting text. Fascinating manifesto for the promotion of living artists and the avant-garde by Chabas who devoted himself to total abstraction in the 1920s. ""A great meeting will take place shortly on the subject of admitting modern works to French art exhibitions abroad. . Now until this moment the great art movement that has been manifesting itself for several years so interesting in its intensity and variety is not integrally represented in the exhibitions. By design the league of the impersonal crushes the personalities who alone count in art . We do not wish in any way to prevent the past schools which in sum have been interesting from uttering their last cry in the arena. But let no obstacle be made to highlighting the true artists with proud souls who always look higher magnetized towards the superior spheres of Beauty goodness and Truth! . Let us not forget our current radiance throughout the entire world and the ever-growing attraction of intellectuals from all countries towards the beacon of light that is France . Maurice Chabas hors-concours'"" unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 71909

‎Maurice CHEVALIER‎

‎Partition piano et chant ""Les Nouveaux Succès de Maurice Chevalier en plus grand""‎

‎Paris: Editions Francis Salabert 1928. Fine. Editions Francis Salabert Paris s. d. 1928 27.10 x 35 cm Une feuille rempliée et une volante First edition of this score titled ""Les Nouveaux Succès de Maurice Chevalier en plus grand"" illustrated on the first page with a beautiful polychrome illustration consisting of a photo montage of the singer striding across the Seine - Eiffel Tower under his arm - reaching the Statue of Liberty and New York skyscrapers. Very fine condition. Editions Francis Salabert unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 79325

‎Maurice CLAVEL‎

‎La pourpre de Judée ou les délices du genre humain‎

‎Paris: Christian Bourgois 1967. Fine. Christian Bourgois Paris 1967 12 x 20 cm broché First edition printed on ordinary paper. Handsome copy. Autograph inscription signed by Maurice Clavel to Lina Caral. Christian Bourgois unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 84055

‎Maurice CLAVEL‎

‎La terrasse de midi‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1949. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1949 12 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 13 numbered copies on pure linen paper the only deluxe copies. Handsome copy. Gallimard unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 28373

‎Maurice CLAVEL‎

‎Une fille pour l'été‎

‎Paris: Julliard 1957. Fine. Julliard Paris 1957 12 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 30 numbered copies on Corvol l'orgueilleux paper the only deluxe copies. Handsome copy. Julliard unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 69519