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255 - SCHOOLBOY HUMOUR AND OPERA. 3 handwritten notebooks:
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SCHOOLBOY HUMOUR AND OPERA. 3 handwritten notebooks: - ANONYMOUS. [Manuscript] – Journal of the Lyon Hospitals’ Boarding School. Saturday 29 September 1928, published by Berryer and Millet. The Big Fools Up Against the Post... Fire! Lyon, (1930s?), school exercise book, 17.5 x 22 cm, unpaginated. Paperback, cloth-bound spine. - Document in good condition. Written in black ink, very legible, with no crossings-out. Medical student’s musings, in prose, transcribed retrospectively. Following this, in the same hand: ‘We’re in the Journal!’ (First magazine upon the return of the troops). 1919, published by Berrier and Millet. - ANONYMOUS. [Manuscript] - Magazines of the Lyon Hospitals’ Boarding School. Let’s Talk and Let’s Get It Over With. September 1924. Lyon, (1930s?), school exercise book 17 x 21 cm, unpaginated. Paperback, cloth-bound spine. – Document in good condition. Written in black ink, very legible, with no crossings-out. Medical student’s musings, in prose, transcribed retrospectively. Followed by: Songs from the 1932 Medical Interns’ Revue (The Waltz of the Venereals; ‘Hymne au bordel’; ‘Le Freudisme’…); 1920: ‘En tic et en toc’ (play in verse); ‘La fille mère’; ‘J’fais pipi dans le lavabo’; etc. - MARCERON (L.). [Unpublished manuscript]. *Fraichaurore*. Draft of a fairy-tale in five episodes and eleven scenes. Paris, (1944), school exercise book with ‘large squares’, ‘Sully’ cover, 90 numbered folios. - The final pages are blank. Cover very slightly soiled. Manuscript in black and red ink, fine and legible handwriting, very few crossings-out, a few lines redacted. This is an (unpublished) draft opera libretto intended for the composer Henri Cuallau, which his colleague Maurice Fouret had presented to the author. A short preface and a synopsis are dated Paris, June 1941. This is followed by a note in which the author explains that he continued writing despite the composer’s growing lack of interest. This note is dated Paris, 2 August 1944 (in a different ink).
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About the sale ANTIQUE AND MODERN BOOKS at 11.00 am and 2.00 pm
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Auction time 10/29/2026 at 11:00 AM
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