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90 - DU BOS, Charles. Extracts from a Diary 1908–1928.
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Estimate €100 - €150
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DU BOS, Charles. Extracts from a Diary 1908–1928. ‎Paris, Editions de la Pléiade, Jacques Schiffrin, 1928. In-8 (21.5 x 15 cm), paperback, cloth-bound cover. Untrimmed. 369 pp. First edition of this selection of entries from the diary of Charles Du Bos (1882–1939). It was Abbé Mugnier who advised Charles Du Bos, who was suffering from writer’s block, to keep a diary to get himself started. The writer began it in earnest in 1908, and this practice would take precedence over all other literary endeavours to form the bulk of his body of work. Printed in a run of 800 numbered copies. This copy is an uncommercial edition, marked ‘H.C.’, on Marais vellum, signed with the author’s initials. A very fine copy, enhanced by an autographed dedication by Charles Du Bos to the journalist and musicologist Jacques Benoist-Méchin (1901–1983): ‘... this book in which music is the point of convergence between ‘the real and the spiritual’...”
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Auction time 11/02/2026 at 2:00 PM
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