Search Results: Authors starting with A from WALDEN Rarebooks

Paris, Émile-Paul frères, (September) 1913.
1 vol. (115 x 185 mm) with 366 p. and 1 f. Doubled ivory morocco, ribbed spine, gilt title, date at foot, double gilt fillet on edges, gilt edges on leaves, moiré endpapers, covers and spine preserved, cigar case (binding signed by Huser). First edition. Copy of first issue (text and cover). One of 1000 copies on satin-finish vellum (no. 555), the only paper after the 10 copies on green paper (Japons and Hollandes were printed later). First issue copy with dates of September for the printing of the text "15822-9-13" p. 366 and of October for the cover "15824-10-13", and with the mention on the back of the price 3F.50. Numbered copy no. 555 at the compositor, part of an edition of 1,000 copies of the current print run on cream satin-finish vellum.A precious copy, enriched by an important letter from Alain-Fournier, written a few months before the publication of Le Grand Meaulnes, in the spring of 1913: "L'Opinion, [. ...], found, I believe, very… Read More

Paris, Gallimard, (March 4) 1957. 1 vol. (120 x 190 mm) of 231 p., [3] and 1 f. Paperback, uncut. First edition. One of 210 copies on pur fil (no. 146)Inscribed : "to Monsieur Gian-Franco Zaffrani, in very cordial and faithful homage, Albert Camus". The six short stories in L'Exil et le royaume (La Femme adulère, Le Renégat, Les Muets, L'Hôte, Jonas and La Pierre qui pousse) were all written between 1954 and 1955.
La Chute was originally a seventh short story, before Camus turned it into a full-length novel - as recalled in the February 1957 insert: "La Chute, before becoming a full-length narrative, was part of L'Exil et le Royaume. This collection comprises six short stories (...). Yet a single theme, that of exile, is treated in six different ways, from interior monologue to realistic narrative. In fact, all six stories were written in succession, although they were taken up and worked on separately. As for the kingdom also referred to in the title, it coincides with a certain free and naked… Read More

[Leysin, Alpes Vaudoises, January 1948]Vintage silver print (90 x 120 mm), handwritten on the back, framed.
Original and unique original proof photo print of the "portrait of Leysin".
René Char's copy, with his initials on verso, and this note:
"Albert Camus jeune homme", with the initials "R.C." on top, from Char's hand.
The latter was then 35 years old. It was January 1948, and Albert Camus had to be treated for tuberculosis.
He went to the Grand Hôtel sanatorium in Leysin, Switzerland (canton of Vaud), where he joined Michel Gallimard, who was staying for the same reason; the two men, accompanied by Michel Gallimard's wife, Janine, stayed there from January 19 to February 8. It was during this period that Camus completed L'État de siège and began writing Les Justes.
This famous portrait, a countertype of which was later returned to the Gallimard archives, was used by the publisher after the Nobel Prize was awarded; it was enlarged several times (175 x 230 mm) and released to the press at the… Read More

Paris, Gallimard, (November) 1960
1 vol. (120 x 185 mm) of 172 p. and [2] f. Paperback. Jack Kerouac's personal copy.with the official stamp of this archive of the Kerouac Estate: "Property of the Estate of Jack Kerouac, John Sampas, Executor the Estate of Jack Kerouac", enriched with the "Jack Kerouac Estate" dry-stamp.J
Jack Kerouac, in this month of November 2023, would have been 101 years old. He died on October 21, 1969, at the age of 47: he lived the last months of his life in a modest bungalow at 5169 10th Avenue North, in St. Petersburg, Florida, in the company of his mother Gabrielle-Ange, with whom he conversed all his life in French - and his third wife Stella. His mother survived him by four years, his wife, Stella, by 21. When he died, his brother, John Sampas, became the executor of the Kerouac family archives and property.
In the last years of the 1960s, if there was one last destination that haunted him, it was Brittany, France, his roots. Kerouac became increasingly concerned with it,… Read More

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Paris, Gallimard, (6 février) 1958. 1 vol. (120 x 190 mm) de 69 pp. et 3 ff. In wrappers. As published.
First edition. This is a service de presse copy.
Inscribed : "to Jean Schlumberger, in faithful and friendly thought, Albert Camus".
Nice copy given to Jean Schlumberger, one of the four founders of the Nouvelle revue française in 1908, together with Gide, Copeau and Ruyters, before being joined by Gaston Gallimard to the destiny that we know. Camus, since L'Etranger in 1942, has published all his works with this publisher.
The copy is enriched with a photograph of Camus, congratulated by the Swedish King Gustav VI Adolph, at the gala dinner of December 10th 1957 in Stockholm. Several passages of the text are underlined in pencil, probably by Jean Schlumberger.
These speeches (since there are three of them) were written with some advice from Martin du Gard, for whom Camus had accepted to preface his complete works in La Pléiade the previous year. Martin du Gard… Read More

Paris, Gallimard, (May 24) 1947.
1 vol. (115 x 180 mm) of 337 p. and [1] f. Green half-maroquin with corners, ribbed spine set with cold filets, gilt title, date at foot, covers and spine preserved, lined slipcase (binding signed by Mercher, 1967).
First edition.
Printed copy from the service de presse.
Handsigned inscription: "à M. René Lalou avec la gratitude et les sentiments de vive sympathie d'Albert Camus".
The post-war period marks a period of growing fame for Camus. From L'Etranger to the committed writings of Combat, Camus remained faithful to his values, to his friends, and to those to whom he owed much. The "gratitude" mentioned here to René Lalou is the same as the one he will evoke at the same time to his other "masters": his teachers in Algiers and Oran, the Louis Germain, the Paul Mathieu, the Jean Grenier, and René Lalou, an English teacher in Oran, at the Lycée Lamoricière. The city where, at the end of 1940, Francine and Albert Camus - who had just married in Lyon - settled at… Read More

S.l.n.d. [circa 1937]
6 pages en 6 feuillets (210 x 270 mm) à l'encre noire | in black ink, numbered in graphite and in another hand; folds of mailing paper.
A beautiful, long unpublished text on the desert, its oases and its people: a foretaste of Terre des hommes, which contains in its middle - and probably for the first time - three terms that sum up Saint-Exupéry's work itself: wind, sand and stars.
These words will be the subtitle of the exhibition organized by Gallimard in 2019, as well as that of the editions of the complete works published in 2021, in the Quarto collection:
"Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's work is made of wind, sand and stars: therein lies his profound humanity" (Alban Cerisier, in Présentation de l'exposition Gallimard).
These three words were originally the title of the novel for which these notes were written. In December 1938, at the printing works in Lagny-Sur-Marne, Saint-Exupéry changed the title Étoile par grand vent on the proofs to Terre des hommes, which his cousin… Read More

New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, [1943].
1 vol. (175 x 230 mm) de 91 p. Percaline rose ancien et chemise à rabats illustrée de l'éditeur.
First edition.One on 260 signed and numbered copy (n° 33).
The iconic signed first edition of one of the world's most famous books.
After the publication of Pilote de guerre (Flight to Arras) on February 20, 1942, Americans were bowled over by the writer's story: the novel topped the bestseller lists in the USA for six months. In France, only 2,100 copies of the book were published at the end of the year, but the Vichy authorities banned it.
Because Saint-Exupéry often drew a little character, Curtice Hitchcock, his American publisher, suggested he write a children's story. Saint-Exupéry decided to illustrate the story himself, and immediately set to work. He buys paper, colored pencils and watercolors, and isolates himself with his wife Consuelo in the Bevin House mansion in New Jersey. Cloistered in his library, he worked in fits and starts, usually at night.… Read More

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