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169 - HALÉVY, Daniel. Correspondence addressed to Louis Brun.
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Estimate €150 - €200
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HALÉVY, Daniel. Correspondence addressed to Louis Brun. 3 pages in-12 (137 x 108 mm); 2 letter cards with addresses and postmarks on the reverse (180 x 138 mm, trimmed to the margin and 160 x 114 mm); 1 page in-4 (268 x 250 mm); 2 pages in-8 (195 x 152 mm) on printed letterhead from the Hotel Excelsior in Rome, with envelope. 1924–1932. An interesting correspondence with Louis Brun (1884–1939), Bernard Grasset’s right-hand man, for whom Daniel Halévy edited the Cahiers verts collection. 25 May 2024: Regarding the publication of André Maurois’s *Disraeli*. “You speak like a businessman: ‘Such-and-such will deliver 20,000 copies to us; let him give 500 to X; we’ll agree to that’… but there is only one Maurois, there is only one Disraeli; Maurois will create his masterpiece with Disraeli – that is what you fundamentally fail to understand, that is what hurts me.” 26 October 1924: He reflects on various forthcoming publications, including works by Ramuz and Maurras. 30 April 1927: Regarding the typographical layout of the title page of *Catherine-Paris* by Princess Bibesco. Daniel Halévy gives his corrections without mincing his words and concludes: “Don’t shoot me.” 7 April 1929: He requests a statement of his accounts and asks for a calculation of his bonus linked to the publication of André Malraux’s *Les Conquérants*. 13 November 1932: “Today our congress begins. An oracular, sustenance-seeking, cubicle-bound congress, all in the same hotel. We look at one another like children who do not yet dare to play together. And what of Grasset?”
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About the sale Sale of collectable books and first editions – Varia III –
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Auction time 09/14/2026 at 2:00 PM
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