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APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume. The Poet Assassinated. New York: Broom, 1923. Octavo, 158pp. First edition in English translation by American expatriate fixture Matthew Josephson. One of twelve hundred and fifty copies on Alexandra Japan vellum, this being copy number 403. A very good copy in publishers quarter Japan vellum and paper-covered boards and a not-quite-very-good example of the rare and fragile printed dust jacket -- the spine and borders are rather sunned. Inscribed by Josephson to noted modernist painter Charles Sheeler, "July 25, 1925. to my friends Katherine and Charles Sheeler. Matthew Josephson" Ilustrated with frontispiece of Apollinaire by André Rouveyre and four woodcuts by André Dérain, originally executed for the Au Sans Pareil edition.
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BALDWIN, James . Three Letters, Signed. 1955-1959. One-page autograph letter, signed, and two typed letters, signed, to Edwin Parone, dated 1955 to 1959. Three pages, octavo, on Howard University letterhead and plain paper; approximately 500 words; unpublished. Director of LeRoi Jones’s (Amiri Baraka) riveting off-Broadway play The Dutchman, Parone also worked as an editor at Dell Publishing and as a theatrical agent at the William Morris Agency during the 1950s. Parone was well acquainted with Baldwin and managed over the years to assist the financially embarrased writer by placing his work discreetely in well-paying anthologies. Mentioned in the correspondance is Amen Corner, which Baldwin implored his friend to "hold." "Anyone who wants to read it must read it at your house. Incidentally, Howard U. is presenting it from May 10 to May 19. Want to drop down and look at it with me?" According to Parone, "it was only natural that when Jimmy wrote Amen Corner I should find myself involved -- as a friend, as an agent -- he was a procrastinator and as the time drew dangerously close to rehersal [under playwright Owen Dodson] I literally locked him in his apartment until the work was done." A moving series of letters, with mention of his "awful financial situation" and of his intimate friend Lucien Happersberger, the dedicatee of Giovanni’s Room. Very good
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BARNEY, Natalie Clifford. Poems & poemes. NY: Emile-Paul Frreres & George Doran, 1920. Quarto, 29pp. Another copy. One of an unspecified number of hand-lettered copies on grey paper, this letter number A. Publisher's grey self-wraps rather the worse for wear, spine partly perished, internally fine.
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BARNEY, Natalie Clifford. Poems & poemes. NY: Emile-Paul Frreres & George Doran, 1920. Quarto, 29pp. An elegant edition combining a selection fron Barney's poems in English and in French. One of 680 hand-numbered copies , this number 5. Fine in publisher's grey self-wraps with printed label on upper wrap.
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250.00 |
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Gatsby le magnifique. Paris: Simon Kra, 1926. Small octavo, 217pp. "Fourth edition" of the first translation of the great work into French, in a translation by Victor Llona. The indication of fourth printing is what is known in the parlance of the French book trade as a "mention fictive": the sheets are the first edition sheets and each successive thousand of the print run receives a new slug on the title page indication a new edition. In effect, this is a copy from the fourth thousand off the press in the first edition. Not that we Americans can readily give credence to such a rationale for collecting first editions that overtly claim to be something else. The present copy is rather distressed: the book block is cracked and one signature is sprung, bound at an early date in modest red cloth, without the original wrappers. However, it does bear the distinction of having been inscribed by Fitzgerald on the frontispiece photographic portrait of the author, "A mon nouvel ami la tres cher et ??? ??? (name). F. Scott Fitzgerald."
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GREEN, Julian . Photographic Portrait, Inscribed. c. 1928. 202mm x 277mm photographic portrait of the American novelist born in France of expatriate parents, and working in Frfench. The present is one of a series of portraits of prominent authors and intellectuals, double matted on light carrdstock papers. Inscribed by Green, with a quote from his first novel, Mont-Cinére, for an American institution of higher learning, circa 1928. Green's is a tortured opus, deeply concerned with the essential solitude and moral and metaphysical alienation of man. Although he has always found a select and passionate readership, his death in 2000 at the age of 100 focused wider attention upon this most unusual man and his work. Fine.
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H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). Tribute to Freud. New York: Pantheon, 1956. Octavo, 180pp. First edition of H.D.'s account of her psychoanalysis with Freud, perforce an autobiography as well. In addition to the highly lyrical and incisive text, several previously unpublished letters from Freud are included as an addendum. A very good copy in publisher's cloth-covered boards, lacking the dust jacket, or most of it -- the flaps have been laid in to the book. Inscribed by H.D. to her friend, the German Shakespeare scholar Alfred Guenther, "To Alfred Guenther with appreciation from H.D. Aldington. October 1, 1956."
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350.00 |
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Torrents de primavera. Barcelona: Editions de la Rosa dels Vents, 1937. Small squarish octavo, 70pp. First Catalan (sic) edition of Hemingway's first novel, a rather mannered comedy that he came to disavow, to say the least, in later years, in a translation by J. Ros-Artigues. After 1939 with the Nationalist ascent, book publishing in Catalan became illegal. The present edition is also significant in that it represents the first publication of Hemingway in Spain, preceding the translation of A Farewell to Arms in 1940. Attractive bookshop stamp to title page, else, a very good copy in publisher's graphically decorated wrappers. Very scarce.
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HIMES, Chester. Le Fin d’un primitif. Paris: Gallimard, 1956. Small octavo, 315pp. First French edition, in a translation by Yves Malartic of this early novel by one of the unsung masters of American literature in the latter half of the century, a long-time exile in Paris. The book appeared as a pulp in the previous year under the title The Primitive, an autobiographical work which Himes considered one of his best. It relates the drunken interracial affair between a failed black author and a white woman executive. An unopened very good+ copy in publisher’s printed wrappers. Inscribed by Himes, "For M. Marcel Duhamel who gave the push which made this French edition come true — my thanks and appreciation. Salut et freternité, Chester Himes, Paris, April 5, 1956." An excellent association copy.
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HIMES, Chester. Typed Letter, Signed. Copenhagen: 1966. A brief letter on a single 8˝" x 11" sheet, from the great expatriate African-American novelist, to the editor of a Belgian francophone literary periodical. Himes reports that he is unable to supply a copy of his novel Cotton Comes to Harlem but that Retour en afrique is essentially the same book and that if his correspondent cannot locate a copy, Himes himself will try to locate one the next time he is in Paris. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope and a a carbon copy of a note from the addressee. Folded twice, else very good. Signed by Himes.
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