‎Collectibles‎

‎Marcel PIQUERAY - Gabriel PIQUERAY‎

‎Les poudres lourdes‎

‎Paris: Fontaine 1946. Fine. Fontaine Paris 1946 11.50 x 14 cm broché First edition one of 25 hors commerce copies on green paper deluxe issue with 25 Arches. Cover illustrated by Mario Prassinos. Margins very slightly and marginally lightened without consequence. Fontaine unknown‎

Référence libraire : 20564

‎Marcel PREVOST‎

‎Clarisse et sa fille‎

‎Paris: Les Editions de France 1935. Fine. Les Editions de France Paris 1935 14 x 19.50 cm broché First edition one of 10 numbered hors commerce copies on pur fil paper ours specially printed for Henri Béraud deluxe copy with 20 other pur fil copies. Signed autograph inscription from Marcel Prévost to Henri Béraud below the justification page: "". en grande estime et en grande amitié."" "". with great esteem and great friendship."" Spine sunned some foxing to covers endpapers and some deckled edges. Provenance: from Henri Béraud's library on Île de Ré. Les Editions de France unknown‎

Référence libraire : 51425

‎Marcel PREVOST‎

‎Dernières lettres de femmes‎

‎Paris: Alphonse Lemerre 1897. Fine. Alphonse Lemerre Paris 1897 12 x 19 cm relié First edition. Half chocolate brown shagreen binding with corners spine with five raised bands marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns original wrappers and spine preserved top edge gilt. Alphonse Lemerre hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 64079

‎Marcel PREVOST‎

‎Fébronie‎

‎Paris: Les Editions de France 1933. Fine. Les Editions de France Paris 1933 12 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 60 numbered hors commerce copies on alfa paper ours printed specially for Henri Béraud. Precious autograph inscription signed by Marcel Prévost to Henri Béraud. Two small tears to spine some light foxing to margins of certain leaves. Provenance: from Henri Béraud's library on Ré Island. Les Editions de France unknown‎

Référence libraire : 51739

‎Marcel PREVOST‎

‎La Retraite ardente‎

‎Paris: Flammarion 1927. Fine. Flammarion Paris 1927 12 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 150 numbered copies on wove paper deluxe copies after 50 on Holland paper. Handsome copy. Marcel Prévost's manuscript signature on the half-title page. Flammarion unknown‎

Référence libraire : 79250

‎Marcel PREVOST‎

‎Les demi-vierges‎

‎Paris: Alphonse Lemerre 1894. Fine. Alphonse Lemerre Paris 1894 13.50 x 18.50 cm relié First edition. Half chocolate brown morocco-style shagreen binding with corners spine with five raised bands very slightly faded marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns original wrappers preserved top edge gilt retaining deckled edges binding signed by A. Broulet bookbinder from Niort. Some foxing affecting mainly the endpapers and margins of certain leaves. Alphonse Lemerre hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 63949

‎Marcel PREVOST‎

‎Les Vierges fortes. Frédérique‎

‎Paris: Alphonse Lemerre 1900. Fine. Alphonse Lemerre Paris 1900 12.50 x 19 cm relié First edition one of 125 numbered copies on Holland paper initialed by the publisher. Contemporary half green shagreen binding with corners signed Champs-Stroobants Sr Jansenist spine with five raised bands retinted and showing small scratches top edge gilt retaining deckled edges full-margined copy covers and spine preserved. Alphonse Lemerre hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 49406

‎Marcel PREVOST‎

‎Sa maîtresse et moi‎

‎Paris: Les Editions de France 1925. Fine. Les Editions de France Paris 1925 12 x 19 cm relié First Edition printed on Alfa paper. Bound in chocolate brown maroquinated half-grilled corners back with five nerves marbled paper plates guards and contreplats of handmade paper wrappers and back preserved and bound in gilded head Contemporary binding signed A. Broulet binder niortais . Some small freckles without gravity. Marcel Prévost's signature on the fake title page. Les Editions de France unknown‎

Référence libraire : 64078

‎Marcel PROUST - (a Rene PETER)‎

‎"je leur souhaite toutes les voluptés depuis les plus hautes jusqu'aux plus grossières"" • Signed autograph letter addressed to René Peter‎

‎s. l. 1904. Fine. “Because I also want success I am extremely material in my wishes for those I love and I wish them every pleasure from the highest to the crudest.” s. l. mardi 25 octobre 1904 12.60 x 20.40 cm 12 pages sur 3 bifeuillets Autograph letter signed by Marcel Proust addressed to René Peter. Twelve pages written in black ink on three bifolia framed in black. Tears at the ends along the folds of the bifolia not affecting the text. Published in Kolb IV n°168. A very long letter from Proust full of innuendo to the playwright René Peter. Praising Peter's success Proust confesses to his own vanity as a writer and his literary ambitions. He subtly lets his jealousy for Peter's mistress shine through and declares his absolute devotion to Reynaldo Hahn. This is one of the first letters he sends to his childhood friend after recently reconnecting with him. Proust eternally plagued by ailments remains a recluse and apologizes for missing the rehearsal of Peter's new play Le Chiffon. Peter's three-act comedy with music by Reynaldo Hahn premiered at the Athénée the following month and was a huge success with around sixty performances before the end of the year. The young Proust relies on the glowing opinion of Hahn who had attended the rehearsals and the missive becomes a love letter for the composer and his impeccable judgement: ""Reynaldo told me that your play was delightful and ravishing which is not quite the same thing that he laughed and cried in it as he never laughs or cries in the theater and that the language was exquisite. Of that I was certain. But knowing nothing about you I couldn't know if you had dramatic genius. I am certain of it now because even if I do not know a judge as severe as ridiculously severe as Reynaldo I also do not know one who has more taste giving his enthusiasm very great value in my eyes.” In a characteristic tangle of confession and denial Proust barely hides his ambitions and his quest for recognition. He hopes and prays for the same laurels he places on Peter's head: “your poor and charming mother who like all those who love and who have lived life bruising all our tenderness has suffered so much is witnessing this great happiness these first rays of glory on your charming forehead which Vauvenargues says softer as the rising sun. I only speak of them in quotations having never known them myself!” He will even end up instilling his own literary vocation into the fictional life of the narrator of In Search of Lost Time – although the narrator's journey as a man of letters is more marked by disappointments than “rays of glory” so long awaited by Proust himself. However it culminates in Time Regained with an epiphany: the narrator now knows what to write and above all how to write it. The letter marks the beginnings of the Proust-Peter-Hahn trio whose complicity was such that they formed a special vocabulary of which only they had the secret. The river of words in this letter perfectly illustrates the undeniable link between desire and intellectual admiration: “Because I also want success I am extremely material in my wishes for those I love and I wish them every pleasure from the highest to the crudest.” Despite these displays of generosity the writer cannot however mask a certain jealousy towards Robert Danceny the fictional co-author of Le Chiffon who was none other than Peter's mistress Mme Dansaërt. Proust elegantly but explicitly refers to her: “It makes me happy to think that the charming woman who I am assured is hiding under the male name of your collaborator shares half of your work. I am not talking about your success because whether she worked with you or not she would always have shared your success with her heart having I believe a deep friendship for you.” Typical of a Proust transposing his desires through fiction the writer will form various dramatic and morbid scenarios between Peter and this young woman in the following years: “I unknown‎

Référence libraire : 84876

‎Marcel PROUST‎

‎Chroniques‎

‎Paris: Nrf 1927. Fine. Nrf Paris 1927 17 x 22 cm broché First Edition one of 129 numbered copies on laid Lafuma Navarre and reimposed format in-quarto tellière head print. A tiny stain at the bottom of the second board. Beautiful copy as published. Nrf unknown‎

Référence libraire : 50241

‎Marcel PROUST‎

‎Correspondance avec Daniel Halévy‎

‎Paris: Editions de Fallois 1992. Fine. Editions de Fallois Paris 1992 14 x 19.50 cm broché First edition one of 50 numbered copies printed on pure Lana vellum the only large paper copies. Fine copy. Text established presented and annotated by Anne Borrel and Jean-Pierre Halévy. Editions de Fallois hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 67167

‎Marcel PROUST‎

‎Lettre autographe signée à Maurice de Fleury à propos de ses pastiches • Signed Autograph Letter Regarding His Pastiche‎

‎s. l. 1908. Fine. Proust and the future of pastiche: ""it seems to me that it could perhaps become a more discreet more fragile and more elegant form of literary criticism"" s. l. s. d. 1908 ou 1919 11.60 x 17.80 cm 4 pages sur un feuillet remplié Autograph letter signed by Marcel Proust to his friend Maurice de Fleury a psychiatrist and famed man of letters close to Émile Zola who wrote a collection of short stories as well as various medical works on neurasthenia insomnia epilepsy Chiara Carraro Philip Kolb. Four pages written in black on a bifolium with ""Island Mill"" watermark and framed in black. Usual traces of folds. Published in Kolb VIII no. 32 p. 74-75. Superb letter extolling the merits of literary pastiche by one of the greatest writers of the genre: Marcel Proust. The writing of this letter may coincide with the publication of Proust's series of pastiches on the Lemoine Affair a scam set up by a French engineer of that name who claimed to be able to make genuine diamonds. The articles were printed on the front page of the literary supplement of 'Le Figaro' between 1908 and 1909 or date from its publication in volume under the title 'Pastiches et mélanges' in 1919. The autograph letter is presented in a midnight blue half morocco chemise with marbled paper boards beige suede lined pastedowns and a slipcase edged with the same morocco. Proust warmly thanks his correspondent Maurice de Fleury whom he describes as a ""scholar and writer"" for his favorable reception of his ""little pastiches"": ""Your double merit should make you doubly severe: and you excuse pastiche that inferior genre!"" Votre double mérite devrait vous rendre doublement sévère : et vous excusez le pastiche ce genre inférieur ! acknowledging with irony the still precarious place of this unusual genre although popular during Proust's lifetime. Pastiche was perceived more as a stylistic musing or even a student exercise than a true creation worthy of literary praise. Yet here the writer considers it here a refreshing addition to the strict hierarchy of genres that still prevailed: ""Handled however by your hands more beautiful than mine it seems to me that it could perhaps become a more discreet more fragile and more elegant form of literary criticism. Very proud minds could devote themselves to it and very fine minds like yours very attached to greatness seriousness duty as wise could take pleasure in it and follow these games."" Manié pourtant par vos mains plus belles que les miennes il me semble qu'il pourrait peut-être devenir comme une forme indirecte plus discrète plus frêle et plus élégante de critique littéraire. Des esprits très fiers pourraient s'y adonner et des esprits très fins. comme le vôtre très attraché par la grandeur le sérieux le devoir aussi sage pourrait s'y plaire suivre ces jeux. With these words Proust asserts the interest of 'critical pastiche' which was already well established and acted as an empirical analysis of an author's style. Since his years as a student in Condorcet the writer had regularly indulged in this activity with according to him varying degrees of success: ""I have also sometimes made pastiches of medical literature! these writings are now lost If I could have found them again or started them again but all that is too far away I would have published them if I had known that you read this for fun. I don't need to tell you that considered inimitable you are not among the authors I pastiched. But . others are less perfect and combined some very interesting qualities with small flaws that could be imitated and caricatured."" J'ai été aussi quelques fois à faire des pastiches de littérature médicale ! Si j'avais pu les retrouver ou les recommencer mais tout cela est trop loin je les aurais publiés si j'avais su que vous lisiez cela pour vous amuser. Je n'ai pas besoin de vous dire que jugé inimitable vous n'y figurez pas. Mais . d'autres sont moins parf hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 86094

‎Marcel PROUST‎

‎Pastiches et mélanges‎

‎Paris: Nrf 1919. Fine. Nrf Paris 1919 16.50 x 22 cm broché First edition one of 70 numbered copies on Lafuma de Voiron and reimposed in quarto Tellière format only deluxe copies ""tirage de tête"". Spine and cover slightly and marginally sunned. Nice copy. Nrf unknown‎

Référence libraire : 68101

‎Marcel PROUST‎

‎Pastiches et mélanges - L'exemplaire de René Boylesve‎

‎Paris: Nrf 1919. Fine. ""An homage of admiration"" by Proust Nrf Paris 1919 13 x 19 cm broché sous chemise-étui First edition on ordinary paper despite a false statement of third edition. Handsome copy signed and inscribed by Marcel Proust to René Boylesve. Housed in a half kaki morocco over marbled paper boards chemise and slipcase with flaps spine very slighlty faded with gilt inscriptions of provenance at foot lined with light green paper. One very pale angular dampstain. Provenance : Heilbronn's library with his ex-libris. René Boylesve discovered the work of Marcel Proust in 1913 upon the publication of the first volume of the Recherche. Initially disconcerted by Proust's writing he soon became an enthusiastic admirer: ""Our own writing is ruined by his. We have labored in vain. Proust obliterates the literature of the past fifty years"" quoted by Émile Gérard-Gailly ""Note liminaire"" in René Boylesve Marcel Proust Quelques échanges et témoignages 1931 p. 24. As for Proust his admiration for Boylesve mentioned in this copy's inscription is not feigned; a few months before his death Proust praised Boylesve's novels celebrating not only ""an art seemingly so simple yet saying everything"" but also ""a supreme refinement of technique"" Marcel Proust Correspondance vols. XX and XXI 1991 pp. 332 and 778. The two men were not close but corresponded from 1917 onward. In sending Boylesve a copy of his Pastiches et mélanges Proust must have delighted him: aside from his activies as a writer Boylesve was a seasoned bibliophile. Thus regarding another of his works Proust showed this delicate consideration: ""I had some hesitation concerning your copy. Usually those printed for me without publisher's mark are somewhat finer than the 'regular copies.' This time the superiority is not apparent to me; and as I am incapable of distinguishing 'pur fil' from the rest I do not know which of the two sorts of copies is preferable. . You would be infinitely kind to tell me what you would like. It is because I know you to be a bibliophile that I write to you about a book of mine a matter of little importance ."" Marcel Proust op. cit. vol. XXII pp. 156-157. Nrf hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 52983

‎Marcel PROUST - Reynaldo HAHN‎

‎Portraits de Peintres. Pièces pour Piano d'après les poésies de Marcel Proust‎

‎Paris: Heugel & CieAu Ménestrel 1896. Fine. Heugel & Cie Au Ménestrel Paris 1896 28 x 37.50 cm en feuilles sous couverture First edition of this rare fascicle unnumbered published in a small number of copies on Dutch laid paper. Work illustrated with a portrait of Albert Cuyp after Maurin. In sheets under grey-green publisher's wrappers printed in black and red 5 pages of lithographed music Imp. Delanchy publisher's blind stamp on verso of final blank leaf. Very small tears to margins of spine and boards handsome copy. Poetic and musical portrait of the Dutch Golden Age painter Albert Cuyp created collaboratively by Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn who accompanies the writer's verses with a piano melody. This is the first of four portraits of painters that Proust and Hahn admired at the Louvre they devoted the following ones to Paul Potter Anton Van Dyck and Antoine Watteau. The luxurious fascicles were sold separately as indicated on the printed wrapper. For each of them Proust's verses specially composed for the occasion are printed in italic characters beneath reproductions of old engravings offering portraits of the painters evoked. The poems would be published the same year in the first edition of Plaisirs et les Jours. Hahn's melodies were premiered at Madeleine Lemaire's on May 28 1895 in the presence of prestigious spectators including Princess Edmond de Polignac Count Robert de Montesquiou José Maria de Heredia to whom the poems were dedicated Count Primoli as well as Anatole France. ""The interposition of the poem between painting and music has therefore proven an excellent conductor between the arts thanks to the fact that Hahn scrupulously respected the spirit of the poem while preserving his autonomy in his composition. The link between music and painting is revealed after the other materials unite among themselves; it is in this alliance that an astonishing complementarity then operates sought upon the soothing light of Albert Cuyp"" Nicolas Vardon Precious copy of utmost rarity a superb manifestation of the immense artistic complicity between Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn. Heugel & CieAu Ménestrel hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 87754

‎Marcel RAYMOND‎

‎Mémorial‎

‎Paris: Jean & Raymond Crès 1965. Fine. Jean & Raymond Crès Paris 1965 12.50 x 21 cm broché First edition limited to 300 hors commerce copies. Spine and covers very slightly and marginally shaded without significance pleasant interior condition. Autograph inscription signed by Marcel Raymond to Professor Georges Blin. Georges Blin specialist in the works of Baudelaire and Stendhal was an important literary critic and academic he was part notably with Vladimir Jankélévitch and Jean Wahl of the jury that examined Emmanuel Lévinas's doctoral thesis Totalité et infini at the Sorbonne. He was also director of the Jacques Doucet Literary Library of the Universities of Paris Sorbonne 1961-1988 professor of the chair of Modern French Literature at the Collège de France 1965-1988 and honorary professor at the Collège de France. Jean & Raymond Crès unknown‎

Référence libraire : 53422

‎Marcel SAUVAGE‎

‎Oeuvre d'or‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1952. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1952 12 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 55 numbered copies on pur fil the only deluxe copies. Handsome copy. Gallimard unknown‎

Référence libraire : 85091

‎Marcel SCHWOB‎

‎Ecrits de jeunesse essais inédits‎

‎Paris: François Bernouard 1927. Fine. François Bernouard Paris 1927 21.50 x 27.50 cm broché First edition one of 10 numbered copies on japan paper deluxe copy. Covers soiled handsome interior. A full-margined copy. François Bernouard unknown‎

Référence libraire : 85585

‎Marcel SCHWOB‎

‎François Villon d'après des documents nouveaux.‎

‎Paris: La Revue des deux mondes 1892. Fine. La Revue des deux mondes Paris 1892 15 x 25 cm agrafé First edition. Extracted from the Revue des Deux Mondes. Rare. In plain wrappers. La Revue des deux mondes unknown‎

Référence libraire : 27857

‎Marcel SCHWOB‎

‎Spicilèges‎

‎Paris: Au sans pareil 1920. Fine. Au sans pareil Paris 1920 19.50 x 28.50 cm broché New edition one of 30 numbered copies on Japan paper ours one of the 8 unnumbered hors commerce copies deluxe issue. Some foxing a small mark at the foot of the first endpaper. Au sans pareil unknown‎

Référence libraire : 74295

‎MARCEL THEODORE DUCROS‎

‎1930 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A PROMINENT NEW ORLEANS CITIZEN CIVIL ENGINEER AND ALL AROUND MAN ABOUT TOWN WHO HELPS PUSH THE CITY TOWARDS IT'S GREAT FUTURE‎

‎NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA LA. Good. 1930. On offer is a super original 1930 manuscript diary handwritten by New Orleans native Marcel Theodore Ducros a 52 year old city employee of the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board and businessman. Born in New Orleans September 30 1878 Marcel would become a formidable citizen in helping usher New Orleans into the Modern Age as he travelled the area extensively and helped build some of the major canals in the state. A Depression era diary we note that Marcel lived the life; an active Shriner football enthusiast weekends primping his Nash playing with the kids and much dining whether with friends or out enjoying New Orleans. He writes January 01 1930 through December 31 1930 he does a super job writing daily noting the weather conditions his wife Ms. Kitty Catherine whether it was the new green dress she bought for $6.00 or the $2.00 she lost at the race track playing cards or listening to Amos and Andy on the radio. He talks about local elections LSU vs Tulane dinner at Arnauds Carnival Season and eating crawfish oysters and crabs. He traveled the streets of downtown New Orleans Bucktown Algiers Westwego and Hammond where he oversaw many canal projects. The largish 8 x 7 inch book has seen better days; the spine cap and back cover is missing the front cover is detaching though the pages are still bound with the exception of the last few pages entitled "Cash Accounts". Some foxing on the first pages and occasional spots and stains. He writes in a lovely hand but some entries were done in light green ink that has faded but is legible with good lighting. Overall Fair.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF MARCEL THEODORE DUCROS CATHERINE KITTY DUCROS NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA DEEP SOUTH CIVIL ENGINEER NEW ORLEANS SEWERAGE AND WATER BOARD DEPRESSION ERA TULANE FOOTBALL BUCKTOWN ALGIERS WESTWEGO HAMMOND CANALS AQUEDUCTS SOUTHERN AMERICANA AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPHED AUTHORS DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES JOURNAL LOG PRIMARY SOURCE FIRST HAND ACCOUNT SOCIAL HISTORY PERSONAL STORIES LIVING HISTORY ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPELBIOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY PERSONAL NARRATIVES . unknown‎

Référence libraire : 0002313

‎Marcel VERTES - Pierre MAC ORLAN (pref)‎

‎Complexes‎

‎Monaco: André Sauret 1948. Fine. André Sauret Monaco 1948 25.50 x 33 cm en feuilles sous chemise et étui First edition one of 890 numbered copies on Johannot paper the only printing. Work illustrated with 40 original drawings by Marcel Vertès. Light marginal foxing without significance on the title page small split at foot of slipcase handsome copy. André Sauret unknown‎

Référence libraire : 46634

‎MARCEL-LENOIR‎

‎Nus masculins et féminins. Etude • Sketches and ink drawings of male and female nudes alone or in pairs. Signed by the artist at the bottom of the sheet.‎

‎s. l.: S. n. 1900. Fine. S. n. s. l. circa 1900 49 x 40.50 cm une feuille sous marie-louise encadrée Sketches and ink drawings of male and female nudes alone or in pairs. Signed by the artist at the bottom of the sheet. In an unvarnished wood frame. Marcel-Lenoir pseudonym of Jules Oury 1872-1931 was a French painter. Fascinated by Symbolism he was a frequent visitor of the poet Paul Fort's and also frequented Rosicrucian circles. It was also at this time that he discovered the works of the Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin the English artist Edward Burne-Jones and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. Alberto Giacometti had enormous admiration for him and said: “For me he was the greatest of his age…he had a way of painting in facets that was totally his own. He made a profound impression on me”. S. n. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 46433

‎Marcelin DUPONT‎

‎L'âge du cheval et des principaux animaux domestiques‎

‎Paris: J.-B. Baillière & fils 1893. Fine. J.-B. Baillière & fils Paris 1893 12 x 19 cm broché First edition. Illustrated with 30 plates in color and with 6 black plates. A good copy. J.-B. Baillière & fils unknown‎

Référence libraire : 52171

‎Marcelin PLEYNET‎

‎Fragments du choeur‎

‎Paris: Denoël 1984. Fine. Denoël Paris 1984 14.50 x 21.50 cm broché first edition one of the 20 numbered copies on ivory strip only large papers. Initials handwritten by Marcellin Pleynet below the justification of the draw. Pleasant copy. Denoël unknown‎

Référence libraire : 60259