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1854ref. 73653Paris: Michel Lévy frères 1854. Fine. Michel Lévy frères Paris 1854 11.50 x 19 cm broché Edition with most parts in first edition. Joints cracked and reglued one restoration using an adhesive strip on the reverse of the front cover. Contains: Armance Mina de Wangel San Francesco à Ripa Philibert Lescale and Souvenirs d'un gentilhomme italien. Michel Lévy frères unknown
1951ref. 73409Paris: Le Divan 1951. Fine. Le Divan Paris 1951 10.50 x 16.50 cm broché First edition one of 50 numbered copies on Arches paper deluxe issue. Handsome copy. Autograph inscription dated and signed by the publisher Henri Martineau to Professor Alajaouine. Le Divan unknown
1889ref. 71152Paris: Librairie moderneMaison Quantin 1889. Fine. Librairie moderne Maison Quantin Paris 1889 13 x 19 cm relié First edition one of 12 numbered copies on Hollande the only deluxe issue. Complete with the folding map at the end. Full fawn morocco binding five raised band spine date at foot comb-marbled paper pastedowns framed with a rich gilt roll comb-marbled endpapers gilt fillet to headcap gilt fillet to leading edges gilt roll to headcaps original wrappers and spine preserved all gilt deckled edges housed in a fawn morocco-edged slipcase. Binding signed by Semet & Plumelle. Provenance: From the libraries of Dr André Chauveau Lucius Wilmerding and RBL with their bookplates affixed. A splendid deluxe copy of exceptional rarity. Librairie moderneMaison Quantin unknown
1957ref. 70098Paris: Mercure de France 1957. Fine. Mercure de France Paris 1957 14 x 19.50 cm broché First edition one of 70 numbered copies on Marais laid paper deluxe issue. Preface by Henri Martineau and Jean Fabre. A small repaired tear at head of one joint otherwise a handsome copy. Mercure de France unknown
1808ref. 689671808. Fine. 26 mars 1808 20 x 24.80 cm Une feuille Long autograph letter by Stendhal addressed to his sister Pauline written in fine handwriting with black ink. Address of Stendhal's father where his sister resides in Grenoble with the stamp ""n°51 Grande Armée."" Red wax seal bearing Stendhal's coat of arms. Several original folds inherent to postal delivery. A paper loss due to the unsealing of the letter has been skillfully restored. Published in his Correspondance ed. Henri Martineau Paris Le Divan 1933 vol. 3 no. 262 A pp. 26-29. A very beautiful letter filled with romantic passion blending childhood nostalgia with sentimental tales and foreshadowing The Red and the Black. This letter is part of the correspondence between twenty-five years old Henri Beyle and his sister Pauline three years his junior. This epistolary relationship which quickly took the form of a ""journal"" as Pauline's responses were rare. It is deemed a crucial milestone in the intellectual development of the future Stendhal: ""Here are my dreams my dear friend; I am almost ashamed of them; but after all you are the only person in the world to whom I dare confess them."" In this letter which attests to the strong bond between brother and sister Stendhal then in Germany expresses his deep nostalgia: ""I revisited in my memory all the time we spent together: how I did not love you in our childhood; how I once hit you at Claix in the kitchen. I hid in the little book cabinet; my father came back a moment later furious and said to me: 'Wicked child! I would eat you!' Then all the woes inflicted upon us by poor Aunt Séraphie; our walks along those paths surrounded by stagnant water towards Saint-Joseph."" These regrets about the past are accompanied by a typically Stendhalian melancholy: ""Alas! That delightful happiness I once imagined I glimpsed it once at Frascati and a few other times in Milan. Since then it has not returned; I marvel at my inability to feel it. The mere memory of it is more powerful than all the present joys I can procure."" This evocation of the Italy he longs for is intertwined with memories of the women he loved: ""I told you that while in Frascati at a charming fireworks display at the moment of the explosion Adèle leaned on my shoulder for an instant; I cannot express how happy I was. For two years whenever I was overwhelmed with sorrow this image gave me courage and made me forget all my troubles. I had long forgotten it; I tried to recall it today. Against my will I see Adèle as she is; but as I am now there is no longer the slightest joy in this memory."" This lengthy account of Adèle Rebuffet his cousin with whom he had a profound romantic relationship before forming a closer bond with her mother reflects Stendhal's sentimentality. He also mentions another of his great passions Angelina Pietragrua the ideal Italian woman and embodiment of his Milanese memories: ""Madame Pietragrua is different: her memory is linked to that of the Italian language; whenever something pleases me in a role for a woman in a work I involuntarily put it into her mouth."" This ""role for a woman"" that Stendhal refers to echoes the central theme of this letter the work Il Matrimonio segreto by composer Cimarosa: ""Do you sometimes play the Matrimonio Its the passage Cara sposa at the beginning between Carolina and Paolino. . But play the Matrimonio for my sake especially Signor deh permettette and the finale Io rival de mia sorella."" This opera by Cimarosa remained a constant throughout the writer's life and work. In his Memoirs of an Egotist 1832 he explains: ""In Milan in 1820 I wanted to have this written on my tomb . I wanted a marble tablet in the shape of a playing card: ""Errico Beyle - Milanese - Visse scrisse amò - Quest'anima adorava Cimarosa Mozart e Shakspeare - Morì di anni. il . 18."" ""Henri Beyle - Milanese - He lived wrote loved - This soul adored Cimarosa Mozart and Shakespeare - He unknown
1890ref. 64861Paris: Les sociétaires de l'Académie des beaux livres 1890. Fine. Les sociétaires de l'Académie des beaux livres Paris 1890 17.50 x 26 cm relié Edition not put into commerce and printed in 160 nominative copies ours for L.J. Baptiste Bourdery. This publication is illustrated with 13 etchings engraved by Manesse after drawings by Eugène Courboin including 7 headpieces and 6 tailpieces as well as 9 Art Nouveau style decorative border frames in one tone repeated on each page by Eugène Courboin. Bradel binding in half pink cloth with corners smooth spine faded and lightened decorated with a gilt floral motif gilt date and double fillet at foot navy blue shagreen title label marbled paper boards illustrated covers and spine preserved contemporary binding. Some light foxing affecting mainly the plain endpapers of the binding. Les sociétaires de l'Académie des beaux livres hardcover
1805ref. 669741805. Fine. 10 Floréal 13 30 avril 1805 18.50 x 23.10 cm une feuille Stendhal's autograph letter addressed to his sister Pauline. 28 lines written with a fine writing in black ink. First name ""Pauline"" from the hand of the sender at the bottom of the letter. Inventory number ""36"" in ink from another hand. Two small traces of stamp and stamp a small tear restored in the bottom margin of the page. A few tiny folds inherent in the enveloping of the letter. Rare and beautiful letter of Stendhal addressed to his sister Pauline in which all the sensitivity of the young man and his love for the dramatic art shows more than twenty years before his big romantic successes. This letter comes from the correspondence between Henri Bayle here twenty-two years with his sister Pauline three years younger. This true epistolary liaison which quickly took the form of a ""diary"" - Pauline's answers were rare - is an essential milestone in the constitution of the intellectual journey of the future Stendhal. Our letter of a great lyricism testifies to the strength of the bond uniting the young writer and his sister: ""Let's shake each other my good friend. We will never find anyone who loves Pauline as Henry nor will Henry ever find a more beautiful soul than Pauline. ""The use of the third person and a lover vocabulary erects the young woman to the rank of alter ego a sister-soul and even perfect mistress. The young Henri is then precisely under the yoke of a devouring passion for the actress Melanie Guilbert whom he met during his declamation classes at Dugazon: "" I'm going to be bored perhaps by my dark sadness. I know very well that the seriousness of ardent passions is not pleasant. "" Contrasting with this passionate relationship Pauline symbolizes reason and balance a figure that Henri like a pygmalion can fashion at leisure. In good tutor he advises: ""Learn by heart roles. About declamation I will teach you a thousand things. I'm bringing you a Gil Blas and a Tracy. ""We understand here worship Stendhal devoted to the theater from his earliest years both as a player as a playwright the fund of its archives to the Grenoble Library contains nearly 700 sheets of blanks:"" I am in despair at not being able to wear you Beanies. But wait maybe someday will come . as Ulino says. ""This passion for theater Henry intends to pass it to his sister:"" We will work like hell during the time that I stay in Grenoble. ""In total opposite view with the education of women in his time he put a point of honor that Pauline is an educated person; In several letters moreover we find injunctions from the brother ordering his sister to give up needlework in favor of the reading he recommends. Truly obsessed with theater and convinced that he will become an author of successful comedies he works tirelessly: ""I am told a room where I will not be free and where I can not just declaim. Try to disturb this arrangement. ""Years before writing great novels that make her famous Stendhal already understands that loneliness is for him a source of creation and says:"" A lonely is jealous of his freedom. It is his greatest good as that of all men. "" unknown
1942ref. 63555Paris: Emile Chamontin 1942. Fine. Emile Chamontin Paris 1942 16 x 24.50 cm relié sous étui Illustrated edition of initials colored vignettes and 8 plates inset by Georges Lepape one of 36 numbered copies on Holland paper head print. Binding half turquoise shagreen corners back with four nerves slightly discolored paper plates with moiré effect guards and contreplats of handmade paper cover and back preserved gilded head. Nice copy. Our copy as it is stipulated in the justification of the draw is full of the original etching of Georges Lepape that he signed. Emile Chamontin unknown
1886ref. 064334Paris: Lemerre 1886. Stendhal Oeuvres; 2 Bände; LV 408 430 S.; mit 1 Stahlstichfrontispiz je 1 Titelvignette u. Kapitelbordüren; unikater Handeinband in weinrotem Ganzleder aus der Buchbinderwerkstatt Rönsberg Langenberg/Wuppertal rundum Rotschnitt. Leder. Sehr gut. 157 cm. Handeinband. Lemerre Hardcover
1830ref. 48307Bruxelles Louis Hauman et Cie 1830. Small 8vo. Bound uncut in 2 later boards of patterned paper with printed paperlabel on spine. Volume 1 bound with the orig. printed wrappers. 2 engraved frontispieces Colonne Trajane and St. Pierre de Rome. IV355;2468 pp. and 1 folded engraved plan. Some soiling to plates. This is edition is printed a year after the first edition Paris 1829. hardcover
1818ref. 031792London: Henry Colburn 1818. First English Language Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Xi339 Pp. First English Edition And First English Translation 1818 Following The 1817 First Edition Published In France. Half Calf Colored Morocco Spine Labels Gilt One Recent Calf Tips Over Peach Cloth Marbled Endpapers 5 Bands Gilt Spine With Center Tools Top Edge Gilt. Light Wear Fraying At Tips Small Repaired Chip At Lower Left Edge Of Spine Refurbished. Stendhal's Too Frank Travel Observations Scarce In This First English Translation. His Observations At Geneva Begin "The Prudery Of The Women At Geneva Is Incredible And Truly Ridiculous. I Have Observed That They Say Exactly The Same Thing To Every Stranger Presented To Them. To Repeat A Certain Formula Taught Them By Their Nurses. I Would Fain Know Who The Traveler Is That First Asserted There Was Such A Thing As Liberty In Switzerland. At Geneva And Berne There Are Four Hundred Surveillans. If You Offend Them Only By The Manner In Which Your Cravat Is Tied You Immediately Become An Object Of Their Persecution." Further Observations Made The Likelihood Of A Further English Translation Small Indeed: "Nothing Can Equal My Admiration Of The English Legislature Unless It Be The Repulsion I Feel From English Society. They Are The Most Unsocial Of Beings; Perhaps For That Reason The Least Happy. To Be Held In Consideration By An Englishman The Most Perfect Air Of Coldness Must Be Assumed." I Don't See Such Observations In My Michelin Or Lonely Planet Guides Perhaps We Have Evolved Or Perhaps We Are Too Terrified To Speak Out. Henry Colburn hardcover
1966ref. 46220Paris: Gallimard 1966. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1966 10.50 x 17.50 cm reliure de l'éditeur First edition published in the Bibliothèque de La Pléiade. Publisher's full brown grained sheep binding smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets handsome copy complete with its cellophane wrapper. Iconography. Gallimard unknown
1947ref. 017047New York: Limited Editions Club 1947. Hardcover. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown. Scratch on spine with slight loss of leather. Very Good in a Near Fine slipcase with some soiling. Rafaello Busoni. Large octavo 7" x 10-1/4" bound in red morocco leather stamped in gold with black linen boards with a gold-stamped decoration. Designed by Richard Ellis and illustrated with lithographs by Rafaello Busoni printed from the stones by George Miller on white rag paper. Copy #39 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Limited Editions Club hardcover
2008ref. DADAX8420649260Alianza Editorial 2008-03-03. edici. paperback. New. 4.33x0.83x6.89. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Alianza Editorial paperback
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1926ref. 32721Paris: Nrf 1926. Fine. Nrf Paris 1er septembre 1926 14 x 23 cm broché First edition. Numerous contributions including those by G.Duhamel journal de Salavin I F.Ponge la famille du Sage A.Gide journal des faux-monnayeurs fin J.Green le voyageur sur la terre fin Stendhal Edgar ou le Parisien de vingt ans. Some foxing to covers otherwise a handsome copy. Nrf unknown
1855ref. 37003Paris: Librairie Nouvelle 1855. Fine. Librairie Nouvelle Paris 1855 10 x 16 cm relié Edition with some parts in first edition. Half red sheep binding smooth spine decorated with double gilt fillets marbled paper boards bookplate pasted to verso of first cover contemporary binding. Some light foxing. Manuscript gift inscription on half-title page. Librairie Nouvelle hardcover
1935ref. 20144Lourmarin: Les terrasses de Lourmarin 1935. Fine. Les terrasses de Lourmarin Lourmarin 1935 11.50 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 300 numbered copies on vélin. A good copy. Les terrasses de Lourmarin unknown
1958ref. 12296Paris: In Albums du Crocodile 1958. Fine. In Albums du Crocodile Paris Novembre-Décembre 1958 16.50 x 25.50 cm agrafé First edition not put into trade and printed in a small number of copies. A small tear without gravity at head of spine. Iconography handsome copy. In Albums du Crocodile unknown
2010ref. BN257072München : Hanser Verlag 2010. 2010. Stendhal : Biographie. Stendhal : Biographie. Willms Johannes und Marie-Henri Beyle Stendhal München : Hanser Verlag unknown
ref. 480200Chatto & Windus. Hardcover. Good. This is volume 1 translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff. Pages have tanning and foxing; two of the corners are bumped; the spine and parts of the boards are faded; the spine has mild crushing at top and bottom. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1973ref. BTR-0014375Gallimard 1973. Good. Condition not individually assessed. Graded conservatively; from a bulk return. Photographs available on request. Gallimard unknown
1818ref. 1242E001London: Henry Colburn 1818. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. xi 1 339. Very Good. 5.25 x 8.5 inches 14 x 21.5 cm. Later half calf leather binding with marbled boards. Spine with five raise bands and leather title label. Marbled page edges. Excellent solid binding. Offsetting to corners of endpapers title page and final page of text. Scattered foxing to text staining to a few pages. Two bookplates to front pastedown endpaper: Sir John Hollams and Panof Grafsos Skinos. The rare first English language edition. This was the first of Beyle's works to use the pen name Stendhal. Includes the preface that was omitted in all later French editions. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 5.25 x 8.5 inches 14 x 21.5 cm. Henry Colburn hardcover
1884ref. 977Q20Paris : Librairie L. Conquet 1884 . Leather. Very Good Indeed. 10" by 7". H. Dubochet . A beautiful Ramage-bound limited edition copy of Stendhal's popular psychological novel Le Rouge et le Noir with illustrations from H. Dubouchet. Limited edition of 500 copies. One of the first 150 copies to be printed on Japanese paper. This is No. 73. Elegantly bound by Ramage in full turquoise morocco with gilt tooling and dentelles. With the original wraps bound in. Complete in three volumes. First published in 1830 'Le Rouge et le Noir' or 'The Red and the Black' tells the story of a provincial young man attempting to rise socially escaping his modest upbringing through hard work talent and deception. Written in the original French by Marie-Henri Beyle a French author best known under his pseudonym Stendhal. Beyle received wide acclaim for this novel alongside 'La Chartreuse de Parme' and is particularly praised for his pioneering use of realism in his writings. With a preface by Leon Chapron.Illustrated with eighty engravings by H. Dubouchet containing a portrait 76 vignettes and 3 page adornments. Vignettes are duplicated with each in-text illustration having a corresponding full-page plate with a tissue guard. Bound in full morocco by Ramage. Externally lovely with light rubbing to the extremities slight fading to the spines and the odd light mark. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Bookseller label to front paste down. Very Good Indeed Librairie L. Conquet hardcover
1883ref. 977Q30Paris: Librairie L. Conquet 1883 . Leather. Very Good Indeed. 10.5" by 7". V. Foulquier . A stunning Ramage-bound limited edition copy of Stendhal's popular historical novel La Chartreuse de Parme signed by the publisher. Limited edition.Number 73 out of 500 copies the first 150 of which were printed on Japanese paper as this one.Bound by Ramage in a lovely full crushed morocco with gilt tooling and dentelles.With the original wraps bound in. Signed by the publisher to the small paper prospectus "L. C. to Monsieur Henry Bretherton" with Bretherton's pencil inscription to the title page. With a specimen prospectus to the front of Volume I containing an example of one of Foulquier's vignettes and other material for subscribers. In the original French. Written by Marie-Henri Beyle a French author best known under his pseudonym Stendhal. Beyle received wide acclaim for this novel alongside 'Le Rouge et Le Noir' and is particularly praised for his pioneering use of realism in his writings. This novel is cited as an early example of realism a stark contrast to the Romantic style popular while Stendhal was writing. It is considered by many authors to be a truly seminal work; Honore de Balzac considered it the most significant novel of his time while Tolstoy was heavily influenced by Stendhal's treatment of the Battle of Waterloo. Wonderfully illustrated with a frontispiece 29 vignettes and 1 page adornment - also included are proofs of each illustration each of which is protected with a tissue guard. Collated complete. Bound by Ramage in full crushed morocco. With the original wraps bound in and silk moire to the endpapers and paste downs. Externally lovely with light rubbing to the extremities and a few marks to boards. Spine has darkened slightly. Internally pages 327-330 to volume I are disbound but present. Otherwise firmly bound. Pages are bright with light scattered spotting. Pencil note to title page. Very Good Indeed Librairie L. Conquet hardcover
