Bibliotheque d'un Amateur: Troisieme Partie: Manuscrits et Autographes Litteraires; 15 novembre 1977

Drouot Rive Gauche, 1977. unpag. About 70 pp. Twelve black and white plates, color frontis. Cream-white stiff wraps show some fingerprints and have some bumping to corners. Beautifully reproduced on tipped-in frontis is a leaf from Les Diaboliques of Barbey d'Aurevilly, the autograph manuscript of the five novels are offered here. Manuscript pages also shown in full-page plates are the poem ''Rolandseck'' by Apollinaire; Balzac's Premier Sonnet, La Paquerette, typeset with numerous corrections in the author's hand; Manuscript title page signed of Baudelaire's Amoenitates Belgicae Epigrammes; First leaf of Georges Courteline's novel Le Train de 8 H 47; A leaf from a letter of Flaubert to Laurent Pichat; autograph leaf of Huysmans, La-Bas; Mallarme, Le Guignon, showing a leaf of the 3-page manuscript; Nerval, showing a leaf of an ALS to Jules Janin; Proust, showing a leaf of an ALS to Robert Montesquiou; George Sand, showing a leaf of an ALS to Flaubert; P.J. Touly ALS; Valery, ALS to P.-J. Toulet (commentaire exhaustif de la jeune parque, with extensive transcription in description); Villiers de l'Isle Adam, Note Publicitaire. Material ''provenant du cabinet d'un amateur: Apollinaire, Balzac, Barbeyd'Aurevilly, Badelaire, Courteline, Flaubert, Huysmans, Mallarme, Musset, Nerval, Proust, Renard, Stendhal, Toulet, Valery, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, Verlaine.'' All 116 items are precisely described, with generous, if not complete, transcriptions of the lots. Third part only. In French. . Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.