Search Results: Titles starting with H from WALDEN Rarebooks

S.l.n.d. [circa 1940]
12 pages in 13 sheets (210 x 270 mm) in black ink, numbered in graphite and in another hand; folds of mailing paper.
Unpublished film script, one of seven known drafts, of which only three are autographed.
Important manuscript, in which the author of The Little Prince creates gloomy characters on borrowed time in a down-and-dirty atmosphere - or rather, a bilge atmosphere - during a Rio-Lisbon crossing.
Like all young people of his generation, Saint-Exupéry was a film buff. His inclinations as a screenwriter were evident between 1931 and 1936, during which time he wrote seven screenplay projects and participated in the adaptation of some of his books for the cinema. Only three of these are autographs, the other four only exist as corrected typescripts. Close to an earlier screenplay entitled Igor, it tells a story that is the antithesis of the novelistic universe of The Little Prince, a dark story populated by hoodlums and prostitutes that begins in the underworld of Rio and… Read More

Henri CARTIER-BRESSONHyères
[1932].
1 black silver print (36 x 25 cm), signed in ink in the lower right margin. Modern print [circa 1990]. Framed.
Precious photograph, signed by Cartier-Bresson in the margin.
An iconic image from the french Master photographer.
"Hyères" was taken at the very beginning of Cartier-Bresson's photographic career, after his return from a trip to Africa in 1931. He stood at the top of a staircase on rue Edith-Warton, triggering his 50mm Leica, purchased a few days earlier in Marseille, at the fleeting passage of a cyclist.
Around 1931," said Cartier-Bresson, "I saw a photograph by Martin Munkàcsi [...] three black children running in the waves. I must say that it was this photo that set the world on fire. There is in this picture such an intensity, such a spontaneity, such a joy of living". He then abandoned his initial training - painting and literature - and devoted himself to photography. At the beginning of 1932, he was in Hyères - where he took this photo.
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Hyeres, Mauvanne, France, circa 1935, paper-framed, "Marie-Louise".
13 x 20.5 cm ; on blue headed paper and vignette of the Domaine de Mauvanne, Salins d'Hyères.
With a black ballpoint pen, Charlot drew his hat, cane and shoes and signed " Charlie Chaplin ". He was then Simone Berriau's host; it was for her that the drawing was made, during a stay of Chaplin in the south of France, near Hyères, where Simone Berriau offered herself "a vineyard": the magnificent Domaine de Mauvanne. Max Ophüls will be filming Divine there, and Charlie Chaplin will be staying for several weeks, taking advantage of the small beach that Simone rents near her estate, at the Vieux Salins d'Hyères.
After the Second World War - Mauvanne, the scene of a bloody battle, was occupied and pillaged by the Germans. Nothing of the collection of the library or archives was saved, and Simone Beriau, who ran a theater in Paris (she was the director of the… Read More