Gros & Delettrez
145
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[LITERATURE – 19th–20th centuries].
See original version (French)
145
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[LITERATURE – 19th–20th centuries].
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
[LITERATURE – 19th–20th centuries].
A substantial collection.
-CUSTINE, Astolphe, Marquis de.
The World as It Is.
Paris, Eugène Renduel, 1835.
2 volumes in-8, [4]-360 pp. and [4]-438 p., with wide margins. Glazed fawn half-calf with period corners, ribbed spine decorated with gilt scrolls and fillets, blind-stamped fillets, gilt title and volume number, gilt and brown fillets and scrolls, marbled endpapers and edges (some foxing, losses to the upper parts of the spines, slight wear, trace of a label at the top of the front cover of volume 1, small loss in the lower margin of pp. 167–8 in volume 1).
The only edition of Custine’s masterpiece, which caused a stir upon its publication.
A dark and realistic novel, also known as ‘The World as It Is’.
Provenance: The Duke of Uzès’s library at the Château de Bonnelles (Yvelines), with an engraved ex-libris and a cold-stamped seal on the half-title page.
ROMANTIC LITERATURE. URANISM.
-BERGERAT, Émile.
Theatre in Verse, 1884–1887. Paris, Charpentier, 1891.
In-18, (2) leaves (including title page and half-title), 383 pp. Bradel half-percaline binding in grey, slightly later, author’s name and title gilt on the spine, 1 gilt fleur-de-lis. Copy enriched with 2 personal items from the author: a handwritten letter dated 14 May [18]91 in which he asks whether the addressee has reserved a place for him in the programme during his performance at the Porte St Martin. in-12, on *Le Figaro* letterhead, and a signed telegram addressed to Emile Rochard dated 2 April (18)92. Enclosed is a later handwritten loose card (worn), by an unidentified writer, referring to a book by Bergerat.
Provenance: Emile Rochard (1850–1918), playwright and novelist (autograph letter signed by the author). Corners worn, edges and top edges rubbed, upper hinge split.
-CLAUDEL, Paul.
Joan of Arc at the Stake.
Paris, Gallimard, 1936. 8vo, publisher’s paperback.
- 5 works by Alfred DELVAU.
Paris, Faure et Dentu, (c. 1861)–1866. In-12, late 19th-century half-percaline Bradel binding, in various shades, with gilt fleurons and dates, including 3 volumes with colourful oriental-patterned endpapers and half-leaves.
- 2 works by Francis JAMMES.
*Love, the Muses and the Hunt*. Paris, Plon, 1922. 12mo, publisher’s paperback; *Bells for Two Weddings*. Paris, Mercure de France, 1923. 12mo, publisher’s paperback.
- LAMARTINE.
Geneviève, histoire d’une servante.
Paris, Imprimerie de Wittersheim, 1850. Square 12mo. Contemporary fawn half-basane.
- MARDRUS, J. C.
The Queen of Sheba.
Paris, Charpentier, 1918. In-8, contemporary green sheepskin.
- PREVERT.
Paroles. Paris, Gallimard, 1949.
Contemporary blue half-chagrin with corner pieces (spine rubbed).
- SAINT-ALBIN, E. de, trans.
The Legend of El Cid, comprising the Poem of El Cid, the chronicles and the romances.
Paris, 1866. 2 volumes in one sturdy 12mo volume, VII-334 pp., (1) f. (table of contents); (2) f. (title folio, title page), 294 pp., (table of contents), orange morocco, ribbed spine, 2 title labels, place and dates in green, compartments decorated with gilt metalwork and gilt fillets, triple gilt fillet on the covers, double gilt fillet on the edges and caps, interior lace, gilt edges on marbled paper [E. Pouget] (small stains on the covers, browning on the title page, preface bound out of order).
-CHAHINE. MIRBEAU, Octave.
In the Antechamber. (A One-Minute Story).
Paris, Romagnol, Librairie de la Collection des Dix (Coll. des Goncourt), 1905. In-8 soleil, 7 ff.–30 pp.–13 ff. Paperback, illustrated cover. Illustrated with 12 compositions drawn and engraved in black using the drypoint technique by the Armenian painter Edgar Chahine (1874–1947), including a portrait of the author on the frontispiece and a separate plate. Cover illustration wood-engraved by Gaspe after Malteste. Limited edition of 350 numbered copies; this one is unmarked on vellum paper with a catalogue of the engravings.
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