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pair of vintage french books, les feux de saint - jeanan old book with a black and white image of the title of the bookan old book with writing on it with a picture of a cat
Maître Paul PASTAUD

1915 - VON STROHEIM (Erich). Les Feux de la Saint-Jean. I. Veronica…
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VON STROHEIM (Erich). Les Feux de la Saint-Jean. I. Veronica. II. Constanzia. Paris, André Martel, 1954–1955. 2 substantial in-8 volumes, paperback, with printed covers. First edition of the French translation by Renée Nitzschke. A very fine copy, featuring an ‘E.A.S.’ inscription by the author in the first volume. Erich von Stroheim (1885–1957), born in Vienna and having settled in the United States before dividing his career between Hollywood and France, was one of the most distinctive figures in twentieth-century cinema. A visionary director of silent films (Folies de femmes, Les Rapaces, Queen Kelly) and an unforgettable actor in Renoir’s La Grande Illusion and Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, he also devoted himself to writing in the final years of his life. *Les Feux de la Saint-Jean*, comprising the two volumes *Véronica* (1951) and *Constanzia* (1954), ranks among his major literary works and extends into the novel the dark, passionate and excessive world that characterises his cinematic oeuvre.
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About the sale MONTIGNAC – 31st BOOK SALE – Day 4 of 4 – Nos. 1643 to 1970
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Auction time 08/22/2026 at 11:00 AM
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