Search Results: French Literature from Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts

Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1992     ¶ Series: Albums de la Pléiade, no. 31.  Collation: In 8s (170 x 103 mm): 224 leaves, paginated [1-7] 8-443 [444-448]. Pages [1-2] and [446-448] are blank as issued.  Illustration: '601' color or monochrome portraits, views, facsimiles, etc.  Binding: Publisher's brown shagreen, spine gilt extra, peach-pink laid endpapers, brown-and-yellow headbands, yellow-cloth register, all edges trimmed and plain as issued. Publisher's acetate dust-jacket unlettered, pictorial slipcase.  Condition: As new.  Provenance: (1) Serge Gorodetzky (1907-1999), physicist, with his discreet inscription in pencil on the upper free endpaper; (2) Beatrice Reiter Leval (1911-2004), of New York, picture-collector.   ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below.  Pour plus de détails, veuillez contacter Jay Dillon  Rare Books +… Read More

Paris: Georges Crès et Cie, 1921     ¶ FIRST VARIORUM EDITION, edited by Verlaine's bibliographer Adolphe Van Bever (1871-1925); including some twenty-four poems dedicated to the memory of Lucien Letinois (d. 1883), who was Rimbaud's successor in Verlaine's affections.This is ONE OF 1875 NUMBERED COPIES on Rives wove paper (of the whole edition of 1990): The present copy is numbered '1001'. (Series: Les maitres du livre, no. 84.)   ||| Collation: In 8s (185 x 128 mm): 90 leaves, paginated [i-viii], [1] 2-168 [169-172], including the genuine final blank leaf 11/6 (pages [171-172]).  Illustratrion: Integral woodcut frontispiece by Baudier printed in black with sepia and green, the titlepage printed in red and black, publisher's device in green, wood-engaved plate (portrait) after Pearon by Aubert printed in black on green; two headpiece vignettes, numerous decorative head- and tailpieces by P. E. Vibert.  Binding: Half brown morocco gilt… Read More

Paris: C. Motteroz (Paris), for Isidore Liseux, 1879     ¶ BEST EDITION, only issue, of this celebrated trove of sixteenth-century manners and customs, compiled ostensibly to buttress the credibility of Herodotus but with a mind as well to satirizing modern institutions, not least the Roman Catholic Church. "Voici enfin une édition digne du grand libre-penseur du XVIe siècle: nous aimons à croire qu'elle sera considérée par tour les lettrés délicats comme l' ÉDITION DÉFINITIVE." (Brunet / Deschamps.)  Chapter 13, we notice, is devoted to sodomy and le 'péché contre nature', with remarks as well on transvestites and 'tribades' (i.178): The latter is said to be the earliest occurrence of the word tribade in French, preceding its appearance in English by some thirty-five years. A lovely set.   ||| Collation: Two volumes in 4s (196 ×… Read More

Oxford: at the Clarendon press, 1937     ¶ FIRST EDITION of the first serious study of Rimbaud's career in East Africa 1881-91  =  ÉDITION ORIGINALE de la première étude sérieuse sur Rimbaud en Afrique de l'Est 1881-91; notable especially for Starkie's discovery of unpublished documents in the Foreign Office (London) suggesting that Rimbaud had been involved in the slave-trade -- a question still hotly debated today, eg by Petitfils (1984) 84n, Robb (2000) 390-92. Bibliography, pages [154]-155; index of names, [157]-158.  This is an unusually attractive copy, nicely preserved in its original dust-jacket and VERY SCARCE in such condition. (Series: Oxford studies in modern languages and literature.)   ||| Collation: 222 x 138 mm: 84 leaves, paginated [i-v] vi [vii-viii], [1] 2-158 [159-160].  Illustration: Full-page map.  Binding: Publisher's oxford-blue cloth lettered in gilt, plain wove endpapers, no… Read More

Brussels: Maison de la Francité, 1992     ¶ Thirty full-page portraits by various artists 1866-1986, with essays by François Carrassan, Olivier Rometti, and Jean Gillibert, also the dedication of Rimbaud's bust at Charleville 1927 (by André Breton et al) and an introduction 'D'Hyères à Bruxelles' by B. J. Ridopoulos; published in conjunction with the Rimbaud exhibition at Hyères 1991, Brussels 1992. Long out of print and VERY SCARCE on the market.   ||| At head of title: Évocation littéraire.  Cover imprint: L'Or des Îles.  Collation: In 8s (235 x 183 mm): 38 leaves, paginated [1-6] 7-73 [74-76]. Pages [1-2] and [76] are blank as issued.  Illustration: Thirty-nine full-page and two smaller illustrations (mostly portraits), after Rimbaud (3), Carjat (3), Delahaye (3), Fantin-Latour, Régamey, Verlaine (2), Isabelle Rimbaud (3),… Read More

In: Historia (Paris, 1955-  ) no. 242 (January 1967), pages 120-31     ¶ ONLY EDITION: This is the original magazine whose cover inspired the American artist Jim Dine to embark on his extraordinary series of nine Rimbaud portraits 1971-73, now very scarce and highly prized. In an interview with Thomas Krens (1976), Dine recalled that he had been "impressed by Rimbaud first as a still life. The Rimbaud series began several years ago when I found a French popular history magazine in a bookstall on the quai in Paris. The cover of the magazine had a portrait of Rimbaud, probably by some nineteenth-century academician [but in fact after Carjat 1871/2], and I was attracted by the way the face looked, physically. Seeing his face in a bookstall on the Seine--it just struck me how interested I was, how much he looked like a young boy, how amazing his face was. I then read his poems, and about his life, and that really fascinated me, but it was his face that I was… Read More

Charleville: Les Amis de Rimbaud, 1963     ¶ Only edition; including papers by Petitfils on "La fin d'une légende (Rimbaud négrier)" and Briet on "Deux sources du Bateau ivre et autres poèmes dans le sillage du Capitaine Cook et de Lamartine"; together with an unsigned account -- probably by Petitfils -- of Arthur Rimbaud vu par des peintres contemporains 1962. The last includes a charming and little-known anecdote of Picasso's portrait of Rimbaud 1960, undoubtedly closer to the truth than Fowlie's account 1993. The lower wrapper illustrates a sculpture called Hommage à Rimbaud (Le bateau ivre), by François Stahly. Scarce.   ||| Collation: In 8 (230 x 156 mm): Eight leaves, paginated [1] 2-16.  Binding: Pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Fine, largely unopened.  Reference: ISSN 1141-7218.  Provenance: (1) Pierre Petitfils (1908-2002), the editor; presented to l'… Read More

Charleville: Les Amis de Rimbaud, 1964     ¶ Only edition; including papers on "Le nouvel autographe des Effarés", "Une source d'inspiration des 'Chansons' de Rimbaud?" and "Le manuscrit des Mains de Jeanne-Marie".   ||| Collation: In 8 (230 x 157 mm): Eight leaves, paginated [1] 2-14 [15-16].  Binding: Printed wrappers.  Condition: Fine, unopened.  Reference: ISSN 1141-7218.  Provenance: (1) Pierre Petitfils (1908-2002), the editor; presented to l' (2) Auberge Verte (Rémi Duhart), of Paris; (3) Frédéric Porta, of Clichy; sold 2005.  ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below.  Pour plus de détails, veuillez contacter Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, comme ci-dessous.  .

Paris: Librairie Henri Leclerc / L. Giraud-Badin,, 1927 ¶ ONLY EDITION OF THE FIRST DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RIMBAUD; comprising transcriptions of title-pages, collations, justifications de tirage, and detailed publishing histories of the twelve éditions originales of Rimbaud's works published 1873-1923, including variant readings (June/July 1873) for Une saison en enfer (October 1873) and the variant texts of five poems as they appeared in Une saison en enfer 1873 and Les illuminations 1886; together with an appendix on recent publications 1922-25. FIRST PRINTING, ONE OF ONLY TWO HUNDRED COPIES, and very scarce in the market. Series: Les bibliographies nouvelles (Colléction du Bulletin du bibliophile), no. x. ||| Collation: In 8s (250 x 165 mm untrimmed): 40 leaves, paginated [1-5] 6-77 [78-80]. Halftone frontispiece (portrait after Carjat 1871/2), two plates (after Rimbaud, Régamey).  Binding: Printed blue wrappers.  References: BN/Briet 803; SMSU/St Aubyn… Read More

Paris: Librairie Henri Leclerc / L. Giraud-Badin,, 1927     ¶ ONLY EDITION OF THE FIRST DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MALLARMÉ; comprising transcriptions of title-pages, collations, justifications de tirage, and detailed publishing histories of the twenty-six éditions originales published 1875-1925.  ONE OF ONLY TWO HUNDRED COPIES, and very scarce in the market.  (Series: Les bibliographies nouvelles [Colléction du Bulletin du bibliophile], no. ix.)   ||| Collation: In 8s (249 x 164 mm untrimmed): Fifty-two leaves, paginated [1-5] 6-99 [100-104]. Pages [102-104] are blank as issued.  Illustration: Four plates (portraits, facsimiles).  Binding: Printed blue wrappers.  Condition: UNOPENED, the half-title partly browned as usual, wrappers partly sunned as usual, withal a very good copy.   ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below. … Read More

Paris: Marpon et Flammarion (26, rue Racine) [et] Librairie Physiologique (38, boulevard St.-Germain), 1882 . . . et Ch. Dufaure de la Prade. Édition elzévirienne. Deuxième mille.    ¶ Twelve "méditations" -- (1) La mariage selon la physiologie expérimentale, (2) La manière d'habiter et de faire génération, (3) L'appareil générateur du genre humain, (4) Le spasme génésique chez l'homme et chez la femme, (5) Le théologie et la fonction génésiaque, (6) Les instruments de l'amour experimental, (7) Règles à suivre dans l'art de fair l'amour, (8) Les symphonies conjugales de l'amour, (9) L'épouse incomprise et le mari battu, (10) Hygiène physique et morale de l'amour, (11) Le fécondation de l'épouse, (12) Les devoirs physiologiques de l'époux --;… Read More

Paris: La Nouvelle Édition, 1949     ¶ FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, notable for its striking art-naïf wrappers after Delacroix (1883-1990).   ||| Collation: In 8s (192 x 143 mm untrimmed): 48 leaves, paginated [1-8] 9-94 [95-96].  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Fine, UNOPENED.  Provenance: Beatrice Reiter Leval (1911-2004), of New York, picture-collector.   ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below.  Pour plus de détails, veuillez contacter Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, comme ci-dessous..

London &c, 2000 ¶ Only edition; including a three-page description of the Charles de Valois (duc d'Angouêlme) copy of Don Quixote 1605, £223,250 ($321,976). (Sale no. L00210, 7 December 2000.) ||| Collation: 270 x 212 mm: Pp [1-10] 11-136. Illustration: Numerous color and monochrome facsimiles and illustrations. Binding: Pictorial wrappers. Condition: Fine. .

Paris: Librairie Vanier, 1886   ¶ FIRST EDITION, and in fact the only separate edition, of Verlaine's sketch of the elder Goncourt, novelist, diarist, and legendary testator whose famous will established the Prix Goncourt and gave heart to auctioneers everywhere: It is my wish, he wrote, that my drawings, my prints, my curiosities, my books--in short, these works of art which have been the delight of my life--shall not be consigned to the cold tomb of a museum and subjected to the stupid glance of the careless passerby. Instead I require that they should be dispersed under the auctioneer's hammer, so that the pleasure I have had in acquiring every one of them shall be given again, in every case, to some inheritor of my tastes.   ¶ Verlaine's essay is enlivened here by a striking full-page caricature of Goncourt in his library, listing his novels while six fat volumes of "Souvenirs" are strewn behind him: The bust over his shoulder represents his late… Read More

Hamburg: Romanisches Seminar der Universitaet Hamburg, 1982     ¶ A critical edition of Julien Macho's fifteenth-century version of Aesop in Middle French; based on the first complete edition, Lyon: Mathias Huss, 9 April 1486 (GW 370). Hecker's introduction discusses Steinhöwel's Aesop and its diffusion, early printing in Lyon, Julien Macho as editor and translator, the French Aesop and its editions, the woodcuts and their model, the history of the text, and Macho and his translation of Aesop, with a bibliography of 152 primary and secondary works. Index of fables, pages 284-88. Dissertation (PhD), Universität Hamburg, 1982. (Series: Hamburger Romanistische Dissertationen, 20.)   ||| Collation: 210 x 147 mm: Pp. cxiii, 288, [1]. Photo-offset from typescript original. Facsimiles.  Binding: Printed wrappers.  Condition: Very good, lower wrapper slightly stained.   ||| For further details please contact Jay… Read More

Aix-en-Provence: H. Gaudibert, 1829 *** ONLY EDITION; CONTAINING NINETY-EIGHT FABLES IN PROVENCAL (OCCITAN) VERSE glossed in French, together with a verse prologue celebrating La Fontaine and a long introductory essay in French on the Provencal language. The latter was written originally for an etymological dictionary whose publication had been delayed and which was, in fact, never published. ONE OF ONLY 200 COPIES, printed for friends of the author and fans of 'lo gai saber'--ie, the Troubadour aesthetic. (The allusion here is to the Consistori del Gai Saber, a literary school or circle established at Toulouse in 1323, which codified Troubadour versification and fostered Troubadour-revival poetry slams.) -- Known for his numerous and charming poems and songs, the author was born at Eguilles, a commune about six miles northwest of Aix, on 19 September 1771. He taught for some years at Eguilles, and then married the owner of a silkworm-farm at Rognes. He moved afterwards to Aix, where he served as the… Read More

Paris: Librairie Vanier, 1893   ¶ FIRST EDITION, and indeed the only separate edition, of Verlaine's biographical sketch of Francis Poictevin, a minor Symbolist writer. Verlaine's work is enlivened here by Luque's punning caricature of Poictevin as a corkscrew. The artist's most famous work was his caricature of Rimbaud coloring the vowels 1888 (Dillon no. H000335). (Series: Les hommes d'aujourd'hui, no. 424.) ||| Collation: 292 x 202 mm: Two leaves, paginated [1-4] (ie, not paginated).  Illustration: Wood-engraved portrait 201 x 149 mm after Manuel Luque (b. 1854), signed "M Luque" in a stylized pallette in the block lower left, printed in black and HAND-COLORED au pochoir, AS ISSUED.  Binding: (A bifolium loose as issued, never bound.) Condition: Slightly browned as usual, top margins slightly chipped without loss, withal a very good copy of a scarce and fragile pamphlet.  References: Vicaire (1894-1920) vii 1002; Carteret (1924-28)… Read More

Paris: Librairie Vanier, 1885   ¶ FIRST EDITION, and in fact the only separate edition, of Verlaine's sketch of François Coppée; enlivened by a striking caricature of the poet holding a red rose and toting a wagonload of hearts across the Place de l'Odéon--where his comedy Le passant had given Sarah Bernhardt her first triumph.   ¶ Coppée was a leading poet and dramatist of the 1870s and '80s, and the progenitor of Les Vilains Bonshommes ("The Nasty Boys")--a group of younger Parnassians whose monthly dinners were celebrated, famously, by Fantin-Latour in his large canvas Coin de table, now in the Musée d'Orsay. (It was at one such dinner, in 1871, that Rimbaud made his Paris debut. The Nasty Boys were not amused.) Coppée is now remembered chiefly for his role in excluding Mallarmé and Verlaine and Charles Cros from the third volume of Le Parnasse contemporain 1876. (Series: Les hommes d'aujourd'hui,… Read More

Memmingen (Bavaria): Edition Curt Visel, 1973     ¶ AN ORIGINAL LINOCUT SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, depicting a man imprisoned in a tower or pergola surmounted by a giant octopus, set in a volcanic wasteland relieved only by a peacock lower right. The accompanying text, interestingly, omits Rimbaud's last line -- "Ce n'est rien! j'y suis! j'y suis toujours" (It's nothing! I'm here! I'm still here) -- which is perhaps to be understood from the illustration itself. This print was originally issued as a supplement (Beilage) to the German graphic-arts periodical Illustration 63: Zeitschrift für die Buchillustration (1964-    ).   ||| Collation: In 2 (260 x 200 mm): Two leaves, paginated [1-4] (ie, not paginated).  A bifolium of machine-made wove paper, unmarked, loose as issued.  Contents: [1] linocut (202 x 156 mm) printed in black, signed "Strauchmann" in pencil lower right;… Read More

New York: Pantheon Books Inc, distributed by Jacques Schiffrin & Co publishers, 1943     ¶ FIRST EDITION, and the first book published under the Schiffrin imprint in New York; AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY from the library of the publisher's friends Fernand & Beatrice Leval.   ||| Collation: In 8s (198 x 132 mm): 128 leaves, paginated [i-iv], [1-2] 3-242 [243-252]. Pages [i-ii] and [248-252] are blank as issued.  Illustration: Halftone frontispiece (photograph of Gide) signed [ ]eirens lower left.  Binding: Printed wrappers, Schiffrin imprint, top- and tail-edges untrimmed as issued.  Condition: Fine, largely unopened.  Provenance: Beatrice Reiter Leval (1911-2004), of New York, picture-collector.   ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below.  Pour plus de détails, veuillez contacter Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, comme ci-dessous..