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Judith GAUTIER
"On va jouer Tristane avec les marionnettes."" Signed autograph letter addressed to Céleste Chrétien
Alger Algiers 1912. Fine. Alger Algiers 14 mars 1912 11.30 x 15.20 cm 4 pages sur un feuillet double Autograph letter signed by Judith Gautier addressed to Céleste Chrétien her maid; four pages written in black ink on a double sheet. This letter mentions the visit of Francis a carpenter by profession and Céleste Chrétien's husband to Paris: ""Does Francis still want to come and spend a few days in Paris Can he do so without harming his work They are going to perform Tristane with marionettes. I would like to have him to help me and I think it would amuse him. I would send him a first-class railway pass he would sleep and eat at my place so as not to incur any expenses. The performance takes place Saturday the 23rd at 4 o'clock; and there will be a dress rehearsal the day before or two days before."" It was in 1910 that Judith Gautier published in La Revue de Paris a triptych in verse entitled Tristane which she had performed in her Little marionette theatre inaugurated in May 1897 at 4 rue Charras in Paris. This theatre which contained about a hundred seats was quickly allocated a subsidy by the Ministry of Fine Arts. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 80804
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Judith GAUTIER
"Je viens vous annoncer aujourd'hui qu'un jeune homme de mes amis va venir s'installer samedi prochain dans la maison pour le mois de juin."" Signed autograph letter addressed to Céleste Chrétien
Alger Algiers 1914. Fine. Alger Algiers s. d. ca 1914 13.70 x 18 cm 4 pages sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by Judith Gautier addressed to Céleste Chrétien her maid. Four pages written in black ink on a double sheet. Transverse folds inherent to mailing. Judith announces the upcoming visit of a friend to Dinard: ""I come to announce to you today that a young man who is my friend will come to settle in the house next Saturday for the month of June. He wants to be there all alone to finish some urgent musical work. You will give him my room with the dressing room and the room next to it the ground floor in order and the piano well polished."" unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 80878
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Maurice LEBLANC
"Je te répèterai répondant ce que je t'ai dit pour ton style."" Signed autograph letter
s. l. 1891. Fine. s. l. 5 janvier 1891 14.20 x 19.20 cm 3 pages sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by Maurice Leblanc to an unknown recipient; three pages written in black ink on a double leaf. Transverse folds inherent to posting. At the beginning of this year Maurice Leblanc left the Norman coast to spend the winter in Nice: ""Je me souviens un peu tard que je t'avais promis mon adresse à Nice puisque tu ne te la rappelais pas. 18 rue Alberti villa Marie-Louise Nice. Tu m'excuseras aussi si je ne t'ai pas envoyé mes souhaits je travaille énormément le temps est merveilleux on cause autour de moi que te dire "" ""I remember rather late that I had promised you my address in Nice since you couldn't recall it. 18 rue Alberti villa Marie-Louise Nice. You'll also excuse me if I haven't sent you my wishes I'm working enormously the weather is wonderful people are chatting around me what can I tell you"" Though he had then published only one work he gives his opinion to his correspondent on a text the latter had sent him: ""Je te répèterai répondant ce que je t'ai dit pour ton style : il n'est pas assez travaillé tu écris un peu au hasard de ta plume on ne sent pas de nerfs là-dessous d'os de solide c'est du style de journal de lettre mais pas de style littéraire. Pourquoi n'essayes-tu pas de réfléchir sur chaque phrase avant de l'écrire."" ""I'll repeat in response what I told you about your style: it's not worked enough you write somewhat at random with your pen one doesn't feel any sinew underneath bone solidity it's newspaper style letter style but not literary style. Why don't you try to reflect on each sentence before writing it."" unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 80763
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Judith GAUTIER
"Je vous enverrai d'autres étoffes si vous avez du temps."" Signed autograph letter addressed to Céleste Chrétien
Alger Algiers 1910. Fine. Alger Algiers s. d. ca 1910 12.90 x 17 cm 4 pages sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by Judith Gautier addressed to Céleste Chrétien her maid. Four pages written in black ink on a double sheet. Transverse folds inherent to mailing. Judith Gautier frequently called upon the seamstress talents of her housekeeper: ""J'ai été contente de votre envoi tout allait bien sauf la robe en crêpe de Chine mauve qui était trop courte devant d'au moins 20 centimètres. On peut l'arranger en descendant les lés et en mettant un empiècement. Je vous enverrai d'autres étoffes si vous avez du temps. Mais je cherche un modèle un peu plus nouveau à adopter."" ""I was pleased with your shipment everything was fine except the mauve crepe de Chine dress which was too short in front by at least 20 centimeters. It can be fixed by lowering the panels and adding a yoke. I will send you other fabrics if you have time. But I am looking for a somewhat newer pattern to adopt."" unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 80880
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Judith GAUTIER
"Le travail est-il commencé au Pré aux Oiseaux "" Signed autograph letter addressed to Céleste Chrétien
Alger Algiers 1910. Fine. Alger Algiers s. d. ca 1910 10.50 x 16.50 cm 1 page sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by Judith Gautier addressed to Céleste Chrétien her housekeeper. One page written in violet ink on a double sheet. Transverse folds inherent to the mailing. ""I receive this letter from Mr Lemoine and I don't know what to reply to him not knowing your reasons. Tell me what I should do. Has the work begun at Pré aux Oiseaux"" unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 80834
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Jorge AMADO
Carte de visite signée de Jorge Amado sur laquelle il a ajouté quelques mots sans doute à l'attention de son amie Alice Raillard traductrice de ses ouvrages en français
s. l.: S. n. 1990. Fine. S. n. s. l. s. d. circa 1990 11 x 7.50 cm une feuille Printed visiting card of Jorge Amado on which he has added a few words probably for his friend and translator of his works into French Alice Raillard: ""Com un abraza cordial do Jorge Amado."" Handsome copy. S. n. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 81162
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Guillaume APOLLINAIRE
« Je crois qu'on ne peut parler d'une école que si elle existe et non de ce qu'elle pourrait être si elle existait » Unpublished signed autograph postcard addressed to Marcel Mayer
Paris 1913. Fine. Paris 1913 13.30 x 21 cm une carte Unpublished autograph signed postcard by Guillaume Apollinaire addressed to the Dijon art historian Marcel Mayer. Two pages written in black ink on a photographic postcard depicting the courtyard of the Louvre. Charming letter praising the attachment to their roots of the "".fameux Flamands-Espagnols Hollandais et Bourguignons que j'admire tant"" ""famous Flemish-Spanish Dutch and Burgundians whom I admire so much"" and informing his correspondent of the writing and forthcoming publication of a ""petit livre sur Rude"" ""little book on Rude"" that Guillaume Apollinaire will not fail to send him. Fine autograph signature with the autograph address of 202 Boulevard Saint-Germain. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 82418
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Franz MARC
Lettre autographe signée adressée à sa mère Sophie Maurice Signed autograph letter to his mother Sophie Maurice
1915. Fine. 19 août 1915 22.20 x 28.60 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet 19 August 1915 222x286cm 2 pages on a leaf. Autograph letter in German signed by the painter Franz Marc to his mother Sophie Marc née Maurice; two pages in black ink. Trace of horizontal and vertical fold. Unpublished letter. Not in the latest edition of his wartime correspondence Briefe aus dem Feld Norderstedt 2019. Lengthy unpublished letter from Franz Marc to his mother during the First World War written a few months before his death in Verdun. In the horror of the conflict the future martyr of German expressionism recalls childhood images and tells horse stories from the front. Stationed on the Alsace front the famed animal painter recounts a hilarious wild boar hunt improvised during a horseback ride reminding him of an illustrated childhood tale: The Three Jovial Hunstmen by Randolph Caldecott 1880. Franz Marc reveals here an inspiration for his famous horses which gave their name to the Blaue Reiter movement created in 1911 with Wassily Kandinsky. The horses in Caldecott's Huntsmen resemble Franz Marc's paintings from 1905-1910. This anecdote is also related to hunting horses sketched on the front and a postcard sketch of the same Jagende Pferde sent to the poet Else Laske-Schüler in September 1915. The letter gives a glimpse of Franz Marc's daily life on the front. By a cruel irony of fate he fought in the native region of his mother Sophie Marc née Maurice born in 1847 in the Alsatian village of Guebwiller. When war broke out in August 1914 he joined the army hoping for a renewal of Europe like many fellow artists and intellectuals. Due to the circumstances of the war the painter wrote his letter in German and not in French as he was accustomed to do in his correspondence with his mother. His mother's influence was decisive in his aesthetic and spiritual approach: Marc's tireless quest for purity inherited from his Calvinist upbringing eventually led him to abstraction already present in his sketches as he wrote this letter. He gives news of a future promotion thanks his mother for sending him food and fills the page with the story of his miraculous hunt: I have one more amusing story to tell: as I was riding out at dawn before breakfast I suddenly noticed a young boar a wild boar beside me in a ditch. I immediately called my fellow riders; he was surrounded I already felt sorry for the poor animal but the pity came too late! Two of them jumped in one grabbed him by the ears the other poked him and the roast for the steward's table was retrieved. A most comical scene ensued: We ordered the youngest soldier to go home with the boar and got him on horseback; but no sooner did the horse feel the boar on his back horses are very afraid of boars than he reared up and threw the rider and the pig into a great arc. Fortunately nothing happened and the embarrassed rider had to walk the boar back then the horse really reared up as soon as he was approached. A real amateur rider! I was thinking of Dad's old English picture book: the jovial huntsman! With this light-hearted anecdote the painter reveals a source of inspiration still unknown to critics and historians. The Three Jovial Huntsmen certainly influenced the young Franz Marc whose own horses painted in the 1910s including the Weidende Pferde I Lenbachhaus Munich are unmistakably marked by Caldecott's British style. In the following years he added to this subject his kaleidoscopic touch and his emblematic blue red and yellow colors charged with spiritual symbolism. Franz Marc also painted blue wild boars in 1913 Museum Ludwig Cologne. The story of this hunt is also completely new since he asked his mother to tell it to his wife Maria to avoid writing a second letter it's long: to tell the same thing twice. This anecdote about hunting and rearing horses can be directly linked to a sketch on a postcard dated the following month entitled jagen unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 82277
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Leo MALET - Bruno de MONES
Lettre tapuscrite signée de Léo Malet à son ami le photographe Bruno de Monès
s. l. Paris: S. n. 1983. Fine. S. n. s. l. Paris 1983 21 x 29.50 cm une feuille Typed letter dated June 29 1983 signed by Léo Malet to photographer Bruno de Monès in which the writer thanks his photographer: "". multipliant autour de moi les images de ma ""petite chérie"" que j'éprouve le besoin de vous envoyer encore un bouquin."" "". multiplying around me the images of my 'little darling' that I feel the need to send you another book."" and takes the liberty of asking him for information about a glue and black paper he uses to create his collages often of pornographic inspiration. At the end of the typed letter on letterhead from his Châtillon address Léo Malet adds a handwritten ""Bien à vous. Léon Malet."" ""Yours truly. Léon Malet."" Central fold marks inherent to mailing. S. n. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 82998
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Antonio TORRES
Carte postale autographe signée adressée à sa traductrice en français Alice Raillard
Coimbra 1995. Fine. Coimbra s. d. circa 1995 14.50 x 10.50 cm une carte postale Autograph postcard dated and signed with 8 lines entirely written in Brazilian Portuguese by the writer Antonio Torres addressed to the translator of his works into French Alice Raillard from Brazil. ""14.7.99 Oi Alice. Daqui terra de Iracema te mando beizos. Saudades. Antonio Torres. E o Henri Està d "" ""14.7.99 Hi Alice. From here land of Iracema I send you kisses. Miss you. Antonio Torres. And Henri Is he okay"" unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83045
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Lawrence DURRELL
"Si tu es libre de me joindre. faites moi signed"" Autograph postcard signed by Lawrence Durrell from Edinburgh to Jani Brun
Edimbourg Edinburgh 1980. Fine. Edimbourg Edinburgh 4 octobre 1980 10 x 14.50 cm une carte postale une enveloppe Suggestive autograph postcard signed by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun written in violet felt-tip pen on the verso of a reproduction of a sculpture representing a satyr envelope attached. ""Buttons dear. J'arrive mardi pour deux nuits à Paris - au Royale. Si tu es libre de me joindre. faites moi signed. Suis fatigué après Athens Londres Edinburgh! Love. Larry Durrell."" ""Buttons dear. I arrive Tuesday for two nights in Paris - at the Royale. If you are free to join me. let me know. Am tired after Athens London Edinburgh! Love. Larry Durrell."" After many years spent in Greece Egypt and Rhodes the traveling writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to its independence from the British crown. Rich only with a shirt and a typewriter but crowned with the success of his novel Bitter Lemons of Cyprus Les citrons acides he arrived in France in 1956 and settled in the Languedoc village of Sommières. In the ""Tartès house"" his large dwelling surrounded by trees he wrote the second part of his work his monumental Avignon Quintet devoted himself to painting and received his illustrious friends including the couple Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin violinist Yehudi Menuhin London publisher Alan G. Thomas and his two daughters Penelope and Sappho. Among the olive trees and under the Mediterranean sun he met in the mid-1960s the young and vivacious ""Jany"" Janine Brun a thirty-something woman from Montpellier of devastating beauty who worked at the Antiquities department of the Sorbonne in Paris. She was nicknamed ""Buttons"" in memory of their first meeting where the young woman wore a dress covered with buttons. Henry Miller also fell under the charm of ""Buttons"" praising her beauty and eternal youth in exceptional unpublished letters. The three companions spent memorable Parisian evenings of which we keep precious autograph traces through their epistolary exchanges. Recommended by Durrell she made numerous trips notably to England from where she received extensive correspondence from the writer as well as original works of art signed with his artist pseudonym Oscar Epfs. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83025
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Georges AURIC
Lettre autographe signée adressée à son ami Carlo Rim à propos notamment de la reprise d'Iphigénie en Tauride de Christoph Willibald Gluck
Paris: S. n. 1965. Fine. S. n. Paris 17 octobre 1965 14 x 19.50 cm une feuille Autograph letter dated and signed by Georges Auric addressed to his friend Carlo Rim 23 lines in blue ink on letterhead of the Réunion des théâtres lyriques nationaux et du théâtre de l'Opéra de Paris in which he asks for his friend's indulgence as he is overwhelmed with work: ""Pardonne-moi si je ne t'ai pas répondu encore : tu peux imaginer sans trop de peine ce qu'est devenue mon existence ! . je viens d'avoir à préparer la reprise d'Iphigénie en Tauride - opéra des plus nobles et que ""notre"" public n'avait pas eu l'occasion d'écouter depuis 1931 "" ""Forgive me if I haven't answered you yet: you can imagine without too much trouble what my existence has become! . I have just had to prepare the revival of Iphigénie en Tauride - one of the noblest operas and one that ""our"" public has not had the opportunity to hear since 1931""; a revival in which Georges Auric places great hope: "". En tout cas je veux espérer que nous dépasserons les deux répétitions de 1931. "". In any case I want to hope that we will exceed the two performances of 1931."" He also rejoices in the diversity of projects that occupy him thus transcending styles and periods: ""Glück Iphigénie : nous sommes fichtrement loin de Vincent Scotto. Mais je franchis allégrement siècles et styles pour te dire combien je suis heureux de me trouver dans ce ""comité d'honneur"" associé aux respectables et déjà vieux amis dont tu connais les noms ! "" ""Gluck Iphigénie: we are damn far from Vincent Scotto. But I cheerfully leap across centuries and styles to tell you how happy I am to find myself in this 'honorary committee' associated with the respectable and already old friends whose names you know!"" Folds inherent to mailing. Carlo Rim was a Provençal writer author notably of ""Ma belle Marseille"" a caricaturist a filmmaker: ""Justin de Marseille"" ""L'armoire volante"" ""La maison Bonnadieu"" 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83133
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Antonio TORRES
Lettre autographe datée et signée adressée à sa traductrice en français Alice Raillard
Rio de Janeiro 1994. Fine. Rio de Janeiro 7 juillet 1994 21 x 28 cm une feuille une enveloppe Handwritten letter dated and signed entirely written in Brazilian Portuguese from writer Antonio Torres addressed to the translator of his works into French Alice Raillard from Rio 17 lines in black ink. Fold marks inherent to mailing envelope included. A press clipping included by Antonio Torres and attached with a paper clip which has left a shadow on the handwritten letter. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83085
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Robert de MONTESQUIOU
Lettre autographe signée de Robert de Montesquiou remerciant son bienveillant correspondant
s. l.: S. n. 1921. Fine. S. n. s. l. 26 octobre 1921 18 x 21 cm une page Grateful autograph letter dated and signed by the dandy count 14 lines written in blue ink probably addressed to his friend the critic Henri Lapauze. ""Mon cher ami ne doutez pas que je ne sache dans cet aimable spirituel et bienveillant article faire la part du critique intelligent qui l'a rédigé et celle du fidèle ami qui l'a inspiré. L'acte de donation en faveur de votre musée vous portera mon remerciement. La statuette est de cire. je l'espère cependant durable et l'avalanche de roses que vient décrire si poétiquement Alexandre lui promet une compagnie délicate elle aussi plus précieuse d'être fragile. Votre RMontesquiou. 26 Octobre 1921."" ""My dear friend do not doubt that I know how in this amiable witty and benevolent article to distinguish between the part of the intelligent critic who wrote it and that of the faithful friend who inspired it. The deed of donation in favor of your museum will bear my thanks. The statuette is made of wax. I hope however that it will be durable and the avalanche of roses which Alexandre describes so poetically promises it delicate company also more precious for being fragile. Yours RMontesquiou. 26 October 1921."" Fold marks inherent to envelope insertion three letters having slightly smudged. S. n. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83149
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Robert de MONTESQUIOU
Lettre autographe signée de Robert de Montesquiou adressée à son bibliographe
s. l.: S. n. 1921. Fine. S. n. s. l. 26 octobre 1921 18 x 21 cm une page Autograph letter signed on bristol board by the dandy count 17 lines written in black ink probably addressed to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze. ""Cher monsieur et ami je vous recommande ma bibliographie que j'ai hâte de lire de votre main qui voudra joindre à la bonne grâce de l'écrire celle de me l'adresser. Je compte aussi sur vous pour recommander le livre à M. Paul Perret à qui j'ai demandé un entretien d'accord avec M. Meyer - et dont j'attend la réponse. Merci d'avance et mes meilleurs souvenirs. Cte R. de Montesquiou. 23 novembre."" ""Dear sir and friend I recommend to you my bibliography which I am eager to read from your hand which will wish to add to the good grace of writing it that of addressing it to me. I also count on you to recommend the book to M. Paul Perret to whom I have requested an interview in agreement with M. Meyer - and from whom I await the response. Thanks in advance and my best regards. Count R. de Montesquiou. 23 November."" S. n. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83152
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Robert de MONTESQUIOU
". cette carte toute seule vous parlera de mon chagrin trop grand pour que j'en puisse moi-même parler et pour que je puisse m'en taire."" Autograph letter signed by Robert de Montesquiou
s. l.: S. n. 1920. Fine. S. n. s. l. s. d. 1920 22.50 x 18 cm une page recto-verso Autograph letter signed by the dandy count 39 lines written in black ink probably addressed to his friend and bibliographer critic Henri Lapauze about the sadness that overwhelms him after the disappearance of a mutual friend. To honor his memory Robert de Montesquiou requests an editorial favor from his correspondent. Fold marks inherent to the envelope placement water damage causing two letters of the word Reuilly to blur in the upper left corner of the letter. ""Neuilly My dear friend cette carte toute seule vous parlera de mon chagrin trop grand pour que j'en puisse moi-même parler et pour que je puisse m'en taire. Vous aurez assisté au dernier éclat de ce foyer chaleureux et généreux brûlant brûlé d'intention mot illisible . Je vous demande de vous souvenir que mon pauvre ami se fit une fête d'être le premier à me mettre en relation avec votre aimable femme. Cette pensée nous sera un lien pour moi très fort. Je n'oublierai jamais non plus qu'une de ses joies finales lui vint des paroles prononcées par vous sur mon livre. C'est vous dire que l'insertion intégrale et textuelle de la note discrète dont le texte est ci-joint à la place hélas ! marquée dans la nécrologie fera de moi une fois de plus votre obligé. Robert de Montesquiou. 10 juillet."" ""this card all alone will speak to you of my grief too great for me to be able to speak of it myself and for me to remain silent about it. You will have witnessed the last brilliance of this warm and generous hearth burning burned with intention illegible word. I ask you to remember that my poor friend made it a celebration to be the first to put me in touch with your kind wife. This thought will be a very strong bond for me. I will never forget either that one of his final joys came from the words you spoke about my book. This is to tell you that the complete and textual insertion of the discreet note whose text is attached in the place alas! marked in the obituary will make me once more your obliged. Robert de Montesquiou. July 10."" S. n. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83165
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Robert de MONTESQUIOU
". Mais mon Mont-Blanc décrit par vous reprend ses proportions !."" Autograph letter signed by Robert de Montesquiou
s. l.: S. n. 1920. Fine. S. n. s. l. s. d. 1920 27.50 x 18 cm une page Autograph letter signed by the dandy count 18 lines written in black ink probably addressed to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze thanking him for his vigilance and for having corrected an error concerning one of his texts. Traces of folding inherent to mailing light creases in the left margin of the letter. ""Neuilly Dear friend thank you for your vigilant benevolence. I appreciate it all the more as the same newspaper which brought me a new flood of it represented my client to me elsewhere in the form of a very vast Perrichon! .But my Mont-Blanc described by you regains its proportions! All is in order and I am your affectionate. Robert de M. 27 Nov."" S. n. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83256
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Robert de MONTESQUIOU
"L'épithète de ""métallique"" appliquée à votre voix sans insister sur la richesse du timbre et la noblesse de la vibration m'apparaît bien loin de ce que me dictaient mon sentiment et ma pensée. Je ne voulais que lui faire figurer l'accent mâle en regard du contralto qu'il me plaisait de lui juxtaposer en plus."" Autograph letter signed by Robert de Montesquiou apologizing to his correspondent for having unintentionally and clumsily offended him about his voice
s. l.: S. n. 1908. Fine. S. n. s. l. 14 juin 1908 22.50 x 18 cm une page Autograph letter signed by the dandy count 52 lines written in black ink on tracing paper addressed probably to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze. ""Neuilly Mon cher ami je crains de vous avoir mal dit en hâte et en proie à de cruels mouvements ce que je ressentais fort bien et que par suite je devais exprimer mieux. L'épithète de ""métallique"" appliquée à votre voix sans insister sur la richesse du timbre et la noblesse de la vibration m'apparaît bien loin de ce que me dictaient mon sentiment et ma pensée. Je ne voulais que lui faire figurer l'accent mâle en regard du contralto qu'il me plaisait de lui juxtaposer en plus. Ce que je voulais sous-entendre aussi dans cette supposition d'une résultante en ce carnet du chant alterné de nos causeries c'est l'hommage qu'il nous est toujours agréable de voir rendre aux dignes objets de notre attachement et que j'aimais vous offrir sous la forme du mien désormais double sans cesser d'être un. Robert de M. P.S. : voilà ce que je tenais à vous dire et que des graves préoccupations autour de la santé de mon pauvre Iturri m'ont fait écourter un peu. Je m'occupe mot illisible et vous avertirai vous renseignerai. 14 juin"" ""My dear friend I fear I told you badly hastily and prey to cruel emotions what I felt quite well and which consequently I should have expressed better. The epithet 'metallic' applied to your voice without insisting on the richness of the timbre and the nobility of the vibration appears to me very far from what my feeling and my thought dictated to me. I only wanted it to represent the masculine accent in comparison with the contralto that I was pleased to juxtapose to it in addition. What I also wanted to imply in this supposition of a resultant in this notebook of the alternating song of our conversations is the homage that it is always pleasant for us to see rendered to the worthy objects of our attachment and that I liked to offer you in the form of mine henceforth double without ceasing to be one. Robert de M. P.S.: that is what I wanted to tell you and which serious concerns around the health of my poor Iturri made me cut short a little. I am taking care illegible word and will warn you inform you. June 14"" Traces of folds inherent to postal use. S. n. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83324
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Robert de MONTESQUIOU
Lettre autographe signée de Robert de Montesquiou évoquant la voix métallique de son bienveillant correspondant
s. l.: S. n. 1908. Fine. S. n. s. l. 13 juin 1908 24.50 x 17 cm une page Autograph letter signed by the dandy count 37 lines written in black ink addressed probably to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze. ""Neuilly Mon cher ami laissez-moi vous donner ce beau nom. C'est avec une vive et charmante émotion que je lis les belles et ""braves"" louanges dont vous voulez bien honorer ma personne et mon oeuvre. Il me plaît de penser que votre précieux éloge résulte d'une collaboration doublement sympathique et dans laquelle auprès de votre timbre métallique résonne l'accent le plus doux de l'aimable femme dont le talent m'était connu mais dont la première minute de causerie m'a révélé la compréhension et le sentiment. En attendant de vous le redire de vive voix merci donc à vous deux et de votre bien affectionné Robert de Montesquiou."" ""My dear friend allow me to give you this beautiful name. It is with a lively and charming emotion that I read the beautiful and ""brave"" praises with which you are pleased to honor my person and my work. I am pleased to think that your precious praise results from a doubly sympathetic collaboration and in which alongside your metallic tone resonates the sweetest accent of the amiable woman whose talent was known to me but whose first minute of conversation revealed to me her understanding and feeling. While waiting to tell you this again in person thank you therefore to both of you and from your very affectionate Robert de Montesquiou."" Fold marks inherent to posting. S. n. unknown
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Robert de MONTESQUIOU
Lettre autographe signée de Robert de Montesquiou recensant ses donations notamment une statuette de TroubetzKoÿ considéré comme le Rodin russe à diverses institutions
s. l.: S. n. 1921. Fine. S. n. s. l. 11 octobre 1921 17.50 x 21 cm une feuille Autograph letter signed by the dandy count 14 lines written in blue ink addressed to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze notably mentioning a work by Ingres in his possession also thanking his correspondent for his always lucid and benevolent critiques regarding him. ""Cher ami envoyez-moi je vous en prie comme nous en sommes convenus le schéma de ma donation au Petit-Palais de ma grande statuette par TroubetzKoÿ et du portrait par Arthur Chaplin de Mademoiselle Ehrmann artiste lorraine élève d'Hébert morte en 1918 ayant légué le portrait par elle de sa mère au Musée de Nancy et dont le portrait pareillement dû à son pinceau de Mademoiselle Favart figure au Foyer de la Comédie Française. Vous me ferez aussi grand plaisir en m'adressant votre bel article sur d'Annunzio et si vous la retrouvez la note des journaux sur mon don à la Bibliothèque de Versailles. Cher ami j'ai été heureux de vous revoir. RMontesquiou. 11 oct 1921."" ""Dear friend please send me as we agreed the outline of my donation to the Petit-Palais of my large statuette by TroubetzKoÿ and of the portrait by Arthur Chaplin of Mademoiselle Ehrmann Lorraine artist and student of Hébert who died in 1918 having bequeathed the portrait she painted of her mother to the Museum of Nancy and whose portrait similarly by her brush of Mademoiselle Favart is displayed in the Foyer of the Comédie Française. You would also give me great pleasure by sending me your beautiful article on d'Annunzio and if you find it the newspaper note about my gift to the Library of Versailles. Dear friend I was happy to see you again. RMontesquiou. 11 Oct 1921."" Fold marks inherent to postal delivery. S. n. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83348
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BALTHUS
Lettre autographe signée adressée à Henriette Gomès
Chassy 1954. Fine. Chassy 4 Janvier 1954 21 x 27 cm une feuille une enveloppe Autograph letter signed by Balthus addressed to gallery owner Henriette Gomès. 7 lines envelope included. Cross folds inherent to mailing a small tear to left margin of the letter not touching text the ink having faded. ""Chassy mardi the r and d having smudged Ma petite Henriette je reçois ce papier mystérieux - si tu trouves un moment pourrais-tu voir de quoi il s'agit En toute hâte - Je t'embrasse et André. B."" ""My little Henriette I receive this mysterious paper - if you find a moment could you see what it's about In great haste - I embrace you and André. B."" ""During the summer of 1952 Balthus found a château in the Nièvre between Autun and Avallon which he decided to rent and where he settled in the spring of the following year. The means were provided by his dealers Henriette Gomès Pierre Matisse and with them a collective of collectors including Maurice Rheims Alix de Rotschild and Claude Hersent. They paid him a pension in exchange for his latest paintings which they divided among themselves. The château was severely deteriorated and Balthus lived there modestly in continual restoration work. He had for company to help him settle in and ensure a presence when he went to Paris the poet Léna Leclercq met through Giacometti. The latter remained until spring 1955. Meanwhile Balthus had begun a love affair with his niece by marriage Frédérique Tison daughter from a previous union of his brother Pierre's wife."" Fondation Balthus unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83349
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Robert de MONTESQUIOU
Lettre autographe signée de Robert de Montesquiou concernant un article qu'il entend faire publier
s. l.: S. n. 1908. Fine. S. n. s. l. 28 juin 1908 31 x 19.50 cm une page Autograph letter signed by the dandy count 40 lines written in black ink on tracing paper addressed probably to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze. ""Neuilly Dear friend the impossibilities that deprived me of your twice precious presence have also deprived you of a moment which I dare believe was one of those that would have moved you. And no doubt all the more I do not say! in revealing to you you sense it well. but in making you better know a character of sentiment curiously associated with the character of verve that you received the other day. If you judge it appropriate and can do so without difficulty would you publish in full the enclosed note having it preceded by a few lines that your good grace and good taste will inspire you I did not think that mention would be made of this intimate ceremony. But since it was not so it pleases me that the names be known to the attendees that I wanted for it. Your friend RMontesquiou."" Creases inherent to folding for mailing. S. n. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83323
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Robert de MONTESQUIOU
Lettre autographe signée adressée à Henri Lapauze évoquant leurs amitiés et inimitiés dans le monde des lettres et des arts : "". Si je n'ai pas lu votre critique de mon livre en revanche j'ai pris connaissance de celle que vous avez consacrée à l'aimable jeune homme qu'il s'agissait de punir pour avoir dit trois fois ; au cours d'un dîner : Marie Murat. peut-être aurait-il suffi de lui donner à copier septante fois sept fois. ""
Artagnan: S. n. 1908. Fine. S. n. Artagnan 1908 20.50 x 26.50 cm 7 feuillets recto Autograph letter signed by the dandy count 68 lines written in black ink on seven folios recto probably addressed to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze: ""Artagnan My dear friend the interesting review which I would very much like to know. has escaped me. Can you send it to me; or at least a date indication that would allow me to find it As for what you write to me about my ""social successes"" you don't think the first word of it fortunately for us! - otherwise you would start by ""not speaking to me"" as Favre used to say; and you would be quite right. Well! in all things one must consider not only the end but the true and the false the good and the bad the authentic and the counterfeit as I believed I could write even about snobbery! When it comes to letters - even more so to ladies of letters on no point does this difference stand out with such clarity. - who knows this better than you No once again we must not and this is very important let the mockeries of what we know how to do prevent us from manifesting ourselves. That would play too well into the hands of the monkeys who already have enough coconut trees as it is. For this reason I believed I should offer the noble Engadin larches the favor of hearing me. And their murmur did not reproach me for it. I am going to write to a certain Lady of letters in the good sense of the term to speak to her about her beautiful book. Your friend and hers Robert de M. Sept 08. Via Vic-Bigorre Hts Pyr. P.S.: urgent Only you can affirm to me with sufficient guarantee that Liem is still alive as I believe and wish to affirm in an article which being in press requires the information without delay. When you are reconciled with an etcher whom you do not like I will offer you for an engraving exhibition a portrait of me by him which at least you will love. If I have not read your critique of my book on the other hand I have taken note of the one you devoted to the amiable young man whom it was necessary to punish for having said three times during a dinner: Marie Murat. perhaps it would have been enough to make him copy seventy times seven times. In any case you will have been harsh. The crime deserved it. Perhaps also one day you will speak ill of me although that seems unlikely to me. But what I can affirm is that. it will not be for that! ."" Fold marks inherent to envelope mailing. S. n. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83382
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Robert de MONTESQUIOU
"Ne soyez pas effrayé par l'importance physique de ce document elle ne vient que de la grosseur des caractères. L'étendue n'en demeure pas moins normale."" Autograph letter signed by Robert de Montesquiou addressed to Henri Lapauze about the republication of one of his works
s. l.: S. n. 1907. Fine. S. n. s. l. 21 mai 1907 25.50 x 20 cm une feuille Autograph letter signed by the dandy count 22 lines written in pencil addressed to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze: ""Neuilly Cher ami voici ce que je vous envoie d'accord avec Monsieur Schmoll qui m'en a téléphoné ce matin. Ne soyez pas effrayé par l'importance physique de ce document elle ne vient que de la grosseur des caractères. L'étendue n'en demeure pas moins normale. J'ajoute que les pièces ont été choisies parmi les transformées et remaniées comme elles le sont d'ailleurs à peu près toutes. Il serait désirable que cette publication eut lieu demain pour ne pas retarder l'apparition du volume. Dans ce cas j'enverrais ce soir pour la correction. La place sera celle que vous voudrez pourvu que ce soit en première page ou ""cheval"" - Votre femme m'a écrit une lettre délicieuse son éloge coule de source. Bien à vous deux. R. Montesquiou 21 mai 07."" Avec la mine de son crayon Robert de Montesquiou a trop appuyé en traçant un trait en dessous de son patronyme ce qui a occasionné un petit trou. ""Neuilly Dear friend here is what I am sending you in agreement with Monsieur Schmoll who telephoned me about it this morning. Do not be frightened by the physical importance of this document it only comes from the size of the characters. The extent nonetheless remains normal. I add that the pieces have been chosen among the transformed and reworked as they are moreover almost all of them. It would be desirable that this publication take place tomorrow so as not to delay the appearance of the volume. In this case I would send this evening for correction. The placement will be whatever you wish provided it is on the front page or ""cheval"" - Your wife wrote me a delightful letter her praise flows naturally. Best to you both. R. Montesquiou May 21st 07."" With the lead of his pencil Robert de Montesquiou pressed too hard while drawing a line under his surname which caused a small hole. Fold marks inherent to being placed in an envelope. S. n. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83361
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Robert de MONTESQUIOU
"J'ajoute que tout semble se disposer pour le succès de mon entreprise. Et vous connaissez assez les lois humaines mondaines et polémiques pour savoir que le tapage de presse accueillant ici les étrangers un peu notables ajoute à la curiosité de l'auditoire."" Autograph letter signed on a series of lectures given in New York
New York: S. n. 1907. Fine. S. n. New York 4 février 1903 13.50 x 17.50 cm deux feuillets recto-verso Autograph letter signed by the dandy count 54 lines written in black ink on two leaves recto-verso addressed to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze: ""4 février Westminster hôtel New-York Cher monsieur et ami j'ai le plaisir de vous adresser ci-joint une copie manuscrite du salut d'ouverture qui servira de prélude de bienvenue à la première de mes conférences dont la date est fixée à demain. J'espère que vous ferez bon accueil à cet envoi de l'absent et le publierez en bonne place. Les documents ci-joints vous aideront à faire rédiger les lignes explicatives dont je vous demande d'accompagner l'article. Merci à vous à Mr Galdemar et à Sem pour son irrésistible dessin du Gaulois grandement fêté ici. Souvenir bien sincèrement affectueux. Comte Robert de Montesquiou. Je tiens à ajouter que je suis heureux de vous donner la primeur de ce document en témoignage et souvenir de nos bons rapports. J'ajoute que tout semble se disposer pour le succès de mon entreprise. Et vous connaissez assez les lois humaines mondaines et polémiques pour savoir que le tapage de presse accueillant ici les étrangers un peu notables ajoute à la curiosité de l'auditoire. J'espère ne pas trop la décevoir et ceci est le secret de demain. J'ai énuméré dans les pages que je vous adresse les raisons qui m'ont dicté le choix du sujet de ma première conférence. Je n'y reviens pas."" ""February 4th Westminster hotel New-York Dear Sir and friend I have the pleasure of sending you herewith a manuscript copy of the opening greeting which will serve as a welcome prelude to the first of my lectures the date of which is set for tomorrow. I hope you will give a good reception to this missive from the absent one and publish it in a prominent place. The enclosed documents will help you have written the explanatory lines I ask you to accompany the article with. Thank you to Mr Galdemar and to Sem for his irresistible drawing of the Gaulois greatly celebrated here. Most sincerely affectionate regards. Count Robert de Montesquiou. I want to add that I am happy to give you the exclusive rights to this document as testimony and remembrance of our good relations. I add that everything seems to be arranged for the success of my enterprise. And you know well enough the human worldly and polemical laws to know that the press commotion welcoming rather notable foreigners here adds to the audience's curiosity. I hope not to disappoint it too much and this is tomorrow's secret. I have enumerated in the pages I am sending you the reasons that dictated my choice of subject for my first lecture. I will not return to this."" Small pin holes that held the two leaves together. S. n. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83363
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Robert de MONTESQUIOU
Lettre autographe signée adressée au journaliste et critique littéraire du Gaulois Henri Lapauze
s. l.: S. n. 1900. Fine. S. n. s. l. s. d. circa 1900 11 x 14 cm une feuille Autograph letter signed by the dandy count on a closed pneumatic card of 14 lines written in black ink addressed to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze: ""Cher monsieur il est bien convenu que vous rappelez n'est-ce pas nos fêtes de lundi dans votre numéro de ce soir par un petit entrefilet invitant et signfiant avec l'heure du départ et les attractions etc. Merci et bon sentiment. Cye R.de M."" ""Dear sir it is well understood that you will remind is it not our Monday festivities in your issue this evening with a small inviting and meaningful paragraph with the departure time and attractions etc. Thank you and good feelings. Cye R.de M."" S. n. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83373
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Robert de MONTESQUIOU
Lettre autographe signée adressée à Henri Lapauze et concernant la réédition de l'un de ses ouvrages
s. l.: S. n. 1908. Fine. S. n. s. l. 4 février 1908 21.50 x 28 cm une feuille Autograph letter signed by the dandy count 22 lines written in black ink addressed to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze: ""Neuilly Indeed dear friend you would give me great pleasure by continuing to point out to your readers the faithfulness of word & the good conduct of this edition which encounters more and more the serious reception to which I hope it is entitled by showing more clearly what those titles that have become famous contained a little confidence and which want to deserve to be so after a more mature examination. And if you insist on the poor passiflora of which your wife speaks to me so eloquently and elegantly in a letter that would be a very beautiful 'art criticism' this will delight at the same time a luminous shadow and my chiaroscuro. Robert de M. 4 February 08."" Fold marks inherent to envelope placement. S. n. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83360
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Robert de MONTESQUIOU
Lettre autographe signée de Robert de Montesquiou adressée à Henri Lapauze
s. l.: S. n. 1920. Fine. S. n. s. l. s. d. circa 1920 25.50 x 20 cm une feuille Autograph letter signed by the dandy count 27 lines written in blue ink addressed to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze: ""Neuilly Dear friend thank you for your note. I am going to see Coppée again. When you speak again you of my book you will please me of course if this accords with your views first by recalling that it is dedicated to Barrès then by observing if not admiring what is rare in the spectacle shall we say the example given by an artist who has proven himself and publishes his eleventh volume books in which there are things without ever having cared about anything other than the esteem of those who please him; by a man who below this list of works which is requested of him by a recent questionnaire then encountering the word rewards followed by a question mark has the happiness and perhaps the honor of having to leave this useless line blank or at least to populate it with this word from Flaubert: ""One must be quite modest to be able to be honored"" Your proud friend RMontesquiou. 10 June."" Traces of folds inherent to the envelope. S. n. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83358
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Thierry MUGLER
Carnet personnel de Thierry Mugler contenant des dessins et aphorismes autographes originaux Personal notebook of Manfred Thierry Mugler containing original autograph drawings and aphorisms.
2012. Fine. Supermanfred man of style s. d. ca 2012 15.50 x 21.50 cm relié Black cloth binding. A white star made by Mugler in corrector fluid on the first cover. Fifteen pages of the notebook filled in by the fashion designer: - The first page in neon blue felt-tip pen with the word ""Yes"" as and large exclamation mark ending with the iconic Mugler star. - A double page with the word ""white"" enhanced with corrector fluid and in capital letters on a black felt-tip background in orange the words ""Indehain"" and ""TRIBE"" with a drawing depicting a sun several notes in black ballpoint pen: ""Aelino Rock-Elektro"" ""DJ"" ""Syath Choreographie"". - A double page with a wonderful drawing of a naked Black woman with voluminous pink hair and on the left with a black ballpoint pen the words ""Super NOVA MAMA"" with star enhanced with purple marker. - A double page with three lines in green red and purple markers: ""- La Perle de l'Afrique. / RIEN QUI BOUGE !!! / Le chic des mains de Paris !"" - The Pearl of Africa. / NOTHING THAT MOVES!!! / The chic of the hands of Paris! The last exclamation point ends with a star. - Several drawings of stars and perfume bottles sketches in pencil. - A list of names in pencil opposite some of them the letter ""G"" in blue marker the mention ""Kab"" in red marker and a spiral in orange marker. - A double page with a drawing of a perfume bottle and a planet with a phallus on it; above several lines in blue purple orange green and red markers with the following text: Alice se perdit dans Brocéliande et se fit courser par le centaure Manfred.et ses dangereux attributs.Pauvre petite fille riche.Ce n'est pas le luxe qui va la sauver. Ombres d'arbres sous la lune ""EN TRAVERS"" CQFD. Testosterone et innocence.la Belle et la Bête !!! Rugissement furieux de métal.Perforation du Tympan et l'Hymen.L'HISTOIRE DU MONDE !"" Alice got lost in Broceliande a forest in Brittany and was chased by the centaur Manfred.and his dangerous attributes.Poor little rich girl.It's not luxury that will save her. Shadows of trees under the moon ""IN THE WAY"" QED. Testosterone and innocence.Beauty and the Beast!!! Furious roar of metal.Tympanum and Hymen perforation.THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD! - A double page in pencil with a sketch of a pole dancer with her head upside down in the left margin; with a text around it: ""Strip Tease intello : laide pas laide. Qui suis je Oui !. Je suis belle. Non ! Je suis laide. Regardez moi ! Non ne me regardez pas ! Voyez moi ! Aimez moi ! BAISE MOI !!! VAS T'EN ! Reviens. Folle. Pas folle. Grand Corps Malade Fabien"" Strip Tease nerd: ugly not ugly. Who am I Yes !. I am beautiful. No! I am ugly. Look at me ! No don't look at me! Look at me! Love me! FUCK ME!!! GO AWAY! Come back. Crazy. Not crazy. Grand Corps Malade Fabien"" French singer Grand Corps Malade whose real name is Fabien wrote a song for the designer's music-hall show Mugler Follies - A pencil note: ""Acte Vente Chelsea AT 92"". Thierry Mugler sold his penthouse in New York's Chelsea neighborhood in 2012. The personal archives of Manfred Thierry Mugler are exceedingly rare. Clear pictures upon request hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83423
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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
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Alphonse DAUDET
Lettre autographe à un membre du groupe littéraire d'Alphonse Daudet sans doute Émile Zola
1880. Fine. s. d. circa 1880 - une feuille Letter written in ink on Vergé paper without date or address. An old handwriting indicates the letter was addressed to Zola information that can not be verified. Daudet relates the impression that the publisher Georges Charpentier left him during a dinner. The importance of the friendly group formed by the writers of the time is here particularly pregnant: "" I want to write him a word to propose to come with us five "". Presumably written after the death of Jules Goncourt probably in the 1880s as suggested by the use of the only surname Goncourt the letter evokes a cold between Goncourt and Charpentier: "" Goncourt may not be delighted; but he is too well brought up to let him see . "" unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 63497
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Joris-Karl HUYSMANS
« ah ! le foutu Dieu ! » Autograph letter signed to Camille Mauclair
Paris 1894. Fine. Paris 8 février 1894 10.60 x 13.50 cm un feuillet remplié Autograph letter of Joris-Karl Huysmans signed to Camille Mauclair 44 lines written in black ink 3 pages on a folded sheet handwritten correction of the author. Two restorations using strips of paper in high and low fold of the letter the second band very slightly affects a word of the text a fold inherent in the enveloping of the letter. A long and beautiful letter in which all Huysmans' respect and interest are shown for the writings of the young Symbolist generation. Both author and literary critic Huysmans embodies a central figure for young poets like the 22-year-old Camille Mauclair who sends him one of his first poetic collections: "" The chapter on the symbol is perfect ; it is certainly the first time that we explain and with such lucidity we put things back in place. "" Heart of the symbolism and the poetic fiber of Huysmans the music of the language is particularly honored both in the lyrics and in the author's writing: "" the pieces on death on sensuality are woven into the most vivid language . and the fine writer who found the cold and ethereal absentee who wrote such sentences: ""we strive to determine our true ghost in the tumult of appearances "". "" Introduced by the mention of the myth of Narcissus Symbolist figure par excellence the letter shows the philosophical questions that underlie the movement. « Narcissus is God - It is not very beautiful to contemplate the soul . It is true that you in a melancholy return on the vanity of being have shown in a vibrant page the actors of ourselves as we are. The mystical evocations direct to Satan and more ambiguous to God echo the literary conversion of Huysmans who in 1894 prepares the writing of En Route the first part of his trilogy during direct ""black book"" that is there : ""Ah! the damn God! Really that makes me dream of a literature that feeds less his Satan as you say to a literature of humility! "" Accustomed to digressive theoretical reflections on literature Huysmans concludes his letter with: "" At bottom I am stupid to quibble over ideas because in short all the ones we express and that we will make are already in d ' other times and they are more or less new depending on whether they are more or less forgotten but what is not done before you what you own is the way to coat them. And that's where I admire you wholeheartedly because those are your sentences. "" unknown
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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-Bufs 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 cur mon puissant orfèvre et vous invite pour notre bonheur à tous à forger encore de belles uvres. » ""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 uvres 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
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Octave MIRBEAU
Manuscrit autographe signé « Au conseil municipal »
1899. Fine. 1899 17.80 x 23.10 cm 2 feuillets et un quart Autograph manuscript signed by Octave Mirbeau for his article ""Au conseil municipal"" published in Le Journal on July 12 1899 90 lines in black ink on three leaves manuscript correction by the author typographical indications in blue pencil. Staining due to ink and paper. Significant of the denunciatory attitude that Mirbeau maintained in his articles this manuscript critical of the unworthy treatment of artists of genius by society is a final draft used for printing as indicated by the capital letters that delimit the paragraphs. The original leaves have been remounted on laid paper here pages from an 18th-century work Dissertatio Medica to facilitate their handling. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 62211
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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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 63597
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Octave MIRBEAU
Manuscrit autographe signé « Habitudes »
1902. Fine. 1902 18.10 x 22.90 cm 2 feuillets et un quart Autograph manuscript signed by Octave Mirbeau 99 lines in black ink on 3 leaves with manuscript corrections by the author and one correction in blue pencil by a typographer. Manuscript used for the composition and printing of the article ""Habitudes"" published on April 20 1902 in the Journal a daily newspaper launched in 1892 by Fernand Xau. The beginning of Mirbeau's career was essentially driven by journalism which allowed him to publish and earn a living despite his lack of inclination for the activity. Quickly feared for his pamphleteering activity Gustave Mirbeau distilling a biting irony stands here against injustice institutionalized by the State and society. Led by the dense and effective writing of Gustave Mirbeau this manuscript is probably a final draft as suggested by the conformity of the two texts and the rare corrections made to the original notably by the blue pencil of a typographer. On the verso of the last leaf is found an earlier version of the first lines of the article. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 61344
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Lise DEHARME
Deux lettres autographes manuscrites de Lise Deharme à Guy Dupré
1963. Fine. 1963 et s. d. 15 x 10.50 cm une carte et un feuillet remplié Autograph letters signed by Lise Deharme addressed to Guy Dupré 9 lines in red pen on a postcard and 17 lines in blue ink on two pages of a folded sheet. Fold inherent to mailing. A collection bearing witness to the friendship between Lise Deharme a figure of Surrealism and Guy Dupré then editor at Plon: « Si je vous écris que j'ai pleuré en lisant votre article j'aurais l'air de commettre une de ces exagérations parisiennes chères à ces amis de nos amis » If I write to you that I cried reading your article I would seem to be committing one of those Parisian exaggerations so dear to those friends of our friends unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 63989
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Theophile GAUTIER
Manuscrit autographe du chapitre XI du Voyage d'Espagne ""Boire de l'eau est une volupté que je n'ai connue qu'en Espagne"" Autograph manuscript of Chapter XI of Voyage d'Espagne Drinking water is a pleasure I have known only in Spain
1840. Fine. s. d. circa 1843 13.20 x 21.90 cm 4 feuillets Admirable set of four manuscript fragments of chapter XI of the Voyage d'Espagne which exposes behind the scenes of Gautier's writing which guided by the romantic taste for the picturesque relates his stays in Madrid and Ocaña and his passages by La Guardia and Tembleque . Gautier adopts an astonishing working format revealing the intimate / particular process of writing where flying sheets of different sizes very tight writing and corrections and inks of different colors come together. Originally intended for a publication in the press Gautier's article itself seduced by Spanish exoticism satisfies the search for picturesque then at its peak in France: "" The perpetual carousel of the fans that open close throb and flap like butterflies trying to land; the elbow movements of the women grouping themselves in their mantillas and correcting the inflection of an unsightly fold; the glances launched from one cross to the other to the people of knowledge; the pretty nod of the head and the graceful gesture which accompanies the agur by which the senhoras reply to the horsemen who salute them; the colorful crowd intertwined with Gallegos Pasiegas Valencians Manolas and water vendors "" Gautier establishes links between known references to Spain: Don Quixote and finds picaresque resonances in the adventures he saw: They were men Beyond the simple satisfaction of the public Gautier offers a glimpse of the Spanish character and bon vivant: sobriety and the patience of the Spaniards to endure fatigue is something that is prodigious. They remained Arabs on this point. One can not go further than the oblivion of material life. But these soldiers who lacked bread and shoes had a guitar. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64099
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Alexandre DUMAS
"Naïs et Chloé"" Poème saphique autographe inédit signé d'Alexandre Dumas Unpublished handwritten sapphic poem signed by Alexandre Dumas
1860. Fine. s. d. circa 1860 20.60 x 27.60 cm un feuillet remplié DUMAS Alexandre Naïs et Chloé. Unpublished handwritten sapphic poem signed by Alexandre Dumas N. d. c. 1860 206 x 276 cm one folded leaf Autograph manuscript poem signed by Alexandre Dumas bearing the title Naïs et Chloé 84 verses in black ink on a blue folded leaf of paper. A few tiny tears without damage to the text invariably produced when a leaf of paper is folded. A very rare manuscript of a long unpublished poem depicting the love of Naïs and Chloé the writing of which is motivated by the admiration and tribute paid by Alexandre Dumas to one of the greatest figures of ancient poetry Sappho. A prolific novelist Dumas rarely tried his hand at poetry; Naïs et Chloé by its length constitutes a hapax in the literary production of this writer. The text remains unpublished to this day and is here enhanced by the elegant calligraphy of its author. The poem is made up of 21 quatrains among which stands a remarkable insertion of the most famous verse by Sappho to the beloved woman the title of which is preserved in the very body of the text. This embedding is part of the verve with which Dumas defends the poetic and evocative force of the writing of Sappho whom he elevates to the rank of the star of the world of Poetry: Il est au sein des mers s'appuyant à l'Asie Entre l'heureuse Smyrne et la sombre Lemnos Une île aux bois fleuris chers à la Poésie A qui Venus donna le doux nom de Lesbos. Quand du chantre divin la voix fut étouffée Que du nom d'Euridice elle eut frappé l'écho Le flot roula tête et la lyre d'Orphée Sur la rive où plus tard devait naître Sapho Sapho naquit la lyre en ses mains fut remise Les sons qu'elle en tira jusqu'à nous sont venus. Translated with conscientious care by the author the poem borrowed from Sappho in which that most famous verse emerges this one I say is equal to the gods is found in several places in Dumas' work particularly in the chapter entitled les vers saphiques of San Felice and in a collection of articles dedicated to the great female figures where she sits alongside Joan of Arc and Margaret of Anjou. For Dumas it is a matter of remaining faithful to the written verses and rendering their sensuality often blurred by previous translators: The translations of these two poets
often appear to lack not only ancient color but are inadequate in their lesbian ardor Les étoiles du monde Galerie historique des femmes les plus célèbres de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Above and beyond this translation Dumas is imbued with the lyricism of Sappho without losing his own romantic vein and he paints the sapphic love of Naïs and Chloé in an erotic light: Oh seule palpitante échevelée et nue Une main sur ma gorge et l'autre. Oh ma Naïs Serre moi dans tes bras et sois la bien venue Car à force d'amour. tiens. tiens je te trahis Et l'on n'entendit plus alors dans la nuit sombre Que le bruit des baisers répétés par l'écho Car Nais et Cloé se taisaient et dans l'ombre Clinias s'enfuyait en maudissant Sapho. The poem testifies to the continuous interest that the authors of the late 19th century showed toward sapphism and to the personage of the reader-voyeur here embodied by Cleinias whose most famous occurrence remains Zola's Nana. Exceptional and long autograph sapphic poem by Alexandre Dumas. $ 10 000 unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64096
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Andre-Ferdinand HEROLD
Manuscrits et tapuscrits autographes de Zadig
Paris: Agence générale de copies dramatiques et littéraires H. Compère 1938. Fine. Agence générale de copies dramatiques et littéraires H. Compère Paris s. d. circa 1938 20.50 x 27.50 cm broché et en feuilles Autograph manuscripts and typescripts by André-Ferdinand Hérold for the libretto of Zadig musical comedy premiered on June 24 1938 at the Opéra-Comique with music by Jean Dupérier. Several hundred typewritten and manuscript pages numerous corrections in ink and pencil in the librettist's hand stamp of the general agency for dramatic and literary copies H. Compère on the front cover and first endpaper of the paperbound copy. The paperbound copy contains a complete version of the libretto and all the ensembles are incomplete fragments of several states of the text which as indicated by a note from a previous owner cannot be reclassified in logical order. Some fragments appear to be drafts of poems. Agence générale de copies dramatiques et littéraires H. Compère unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64165
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Louis-Ferdinand CELINE
Lettre autographe signée de Louis-Ferdinand Céline à Henri Mahé ""Le martyr c'est le crachat des imbéciles""
s. l. Copenhague Copenhagen 1947. Fine. s. l. Copenhague Copenhagen 23 avril 1947 22.50 x 28.40 cm 6 pp. in-folio Signed autograph letter of Céline to Henri Mahé and his wife dated April 23 1947 in Copenhagen lines in black ink on three sheets of lined paper. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 63242
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Louis-Ferdinand CELINE
Lettre autographe signée de Louis-Ferdinand Céline au docteur Tuset et à Henri Mahé ""Ces choses-là ne s'oublient pas. Tout est poésie ! ""
Copenhage Copenhagen 1947. Fine. Copenhage Copenhagen 10 avril 1947 22.50 x 28.40 cm 6 pages sur 3 feuillets Very long autograph letter signed ""Dest"" to Doctor Tuset and Henri Mahé dated April 10 unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64327
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Andre SUARES
Lettre autographe d'André Suarès à ses éditeurs
Paris 1920. Fine. Paris s. d. 11 x 13.50 cm un feuillet André Suarès autograph letter to his editors Emile-Paul Frères 6 lines in pencil in the hand of the author and 3 lines of the hand of the editors address of the editors at the head of the letter. Envelope attached. Letter concerning the articles that Suares wrote during the war already published under the name of Commentaries quoted on the back of the letter. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64367
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Pierre-Andre BENOIT
Poème autographe inédit ""L'arbre""
s. l. 1950. Fine. s. l. s. d. 6 x 10.50 cm un feuillet Unpublished autograph poem signed by Pierre-André Benoit entitled « L'arbre » 9 lines in black ink with a drawing of a tree. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64370
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Theophile GAUTIER
Lettre autographe signée de Théophile Gautier à sa fille cadette ""J'ai manqué pour ma part d'y laisser ma peau et je ne suis pas encore bien brillant""
Versailles 1871. Fine. Versailles s. d. 20-30 avril 1871 10.50 x 11.50 cm un feuillet Autograph letter signed by Théophile Gautier 34 lines in black ink address at foot on verso of the letter: ""Versailles avenue de St-Cloud n°3"". Folds inherent to mailing. The letter appears to be unpublished not mentioned in the Correspondance Générale de Théophile Gautier edited by Claudine Lacoste-Veysseyre under the direction of Pierre Laubriet Droz Geneva-Paris 12 vol. 1985-2000. Rare glimpse into Gautier's private life the letter captures the anguish that struck the author and his family during the Paris Commune. Separated from his family by the Prussian invasion of 1870 and the Parisian insurrections of 1871 Théophile Gautier confides the extent of his torments both financial and due to the Paris Commune to his ""dear sweetheart"" his younger daughter Estelle Gautier: ""I may yet manage to recover from this collapse . I am happy that these atrocious ordeals have been spared you. For my part I nearly lost my life and I am still not in brilliant condition"". Gautier's usual supporters are evident here through the names of academician Camille Doucet and dancer Carlotta Grisi. The virulence of the fighting between communards and repressive forces can be sensed in the evocation of Gautier's sister Emilie called ""Lili"": ""Lili is still in her cellar. Coming out is too perilous but she will be delivered within a few days. Alas! Very long ones"". Characteristic of the personal register rare in Gautier's correspondence the letter is imbued with the paternal love the author bears for his family: ""What a celebration when we are all reunited for my heart suffers greatly from this dispersion"". unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64361
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Alphonse DAUDET
Carte autographe signée à Jean Jullien ""nous pleurions dans cette avant-scène à faire pitié""
s. l. 1890. Fine. s. l. s. d. 10 x 6 cm une carte Signed autograph card of Alphonse Daudet 7 lines in black ink erasure of the hand of the author. Letter of praise addressed to Jean Jullien playwright precursor of the theatrical revolutions of the twentieth century about one of his pieces which Daudet emphasizes the naturalistic aesthetic: "" what admirable acts of a moving and wide poetry of observation "" . unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64360
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Gus BOFA
Lettre autographe signée de Gus Bofa
s. l. 1950. Fine. s. l. s. d. 18 x 21.50 cm un feuillet Signed autograph letter of Gus Bofa to one of his acquaintances 16 lines in purple ink accompanied by a pencil drawing. Folding inherent in the enveloping tear without lack in the drawing. Addressed to a friend of Gus Bofa and his wife who seems to have suffered "" a long journey in the storm! ""The letter is imbued with the humor of its author:"" we add two good warm kisses to finish drying you off "". The missive is enriched with an original drawing of Gus Bofa representing two birds on a radiator one of which is written ""Spring has come! "" unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64369
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Andre ROLLAND DE RENEVILLE
Six lettres autographes signées d'André Rolland de Renéville
Paris et Richelieu Paris 1939. Fine. Paris et Richelieu Paris 1939-1940 21 x 27 cm en feuillets Set of 6 autograph letters signed by André Rolland de Renéville 21 pages in black and blue ink. The letters are dated with one exception between June 28 1939 and May 27 1940 and include various addresses at the head of the pages. Folds inherent in envelopes. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64406
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Paul MOUNET
Lettre autographe signée de Paul Mounet
Paris 1910. Fine. Paris 1910 13.50 x 21.50 cm un feuillet remplié Autograph letter signed by Paul Mounet probably addressed to an actress 30 lines in black ink on laid paper with the address of the coffee Regency in mind. Folds inherent to the enveloping. The missive deals with the details of a forthcoming theatrical production that Mounet then comedian at the Comédie-Française insists with insistence to his interlocutor: "" I must have permission - to play outside the French"" unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64371
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Hans HARTUNG
Carte postale autographe signée adressée à Georges Raillard
Madrid 1970. Fine. Madrid 29 juin 1970 15 x 10 cm une carte postale Autograph signed postcard from Hans Hartung addressed to Georges Raillard. Seven lines in ballpoint pen on the verso of a postcard depicting sardana dancers. ""Mille fois merci et un bon souvenir de ""votre"" ville ! En espérant de vous revoir bientôt un jour. Bien à vous Anna-Eva et Hans Hartung"" ""A thousand thanks and fond memories of ""your"" city! Hoping to see you again soon someday. Yours truly Anna-Eva and Hans Hartung"" unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 67104
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