Search Results: Authors starting with H from WALDEN Rarebooks

Jean HELIONThey Shall Not Have Me (Ils ne m'auront pas)
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1943 1 vol. (150 x 215 mm) de 435 pp. et 2 ff. Toile éditeur rouge, jaquette. 435 pp, 2 leaves. (21 x 15 cm). hardcover, ill. dust jacket.
First edition.
Inscribed f: " à Dorothea et Max Ernst, affectueusement, Hélion, Nyc 45 ".
They shall not have me form Jean Helion's testimony on his experience of captivity in Germany, from the June 1940 defeat to his escape in 1942. One of the most prominent painters in the field of non-figurative painting, Jean Helion left New York in January 1940 where he lived with his wife, Jean Blair: he ardently wanted to participate in the Second World War, " perhaps because I felt that I had not fought enough to prevent it from happening," he explained later. However, from 19 June, on the borders of the Eure-et-Loir and the Loir-et-Cher, he was interned in an abandoned barracks and then transferred to Pomerania. There he discovered the world of forced labour camps, from which he… Read More

Paris, Tournai, Casterman, [1954 and 1974]
1 vol. (230 x 300 mm) with 62 plates. Illustrated publisher's boards, red cloth spine, fourth plate type B (B11)
1 vol. (229 x 304 m), 62 plates. Illustrated publisher's paperback, green laminated spine, fourth board type B (B42)
Fine reunion of two albums:

The original first edition from 1954 ;
The last edition (1974) with type B variation: the album is here inscribed by Hergé and signed by "Buzz Aldrin (Apollo XI LMP)" - the second astronaut after Armstrong to set foot on the lunar surface, after the steps drawn fifteen years earlier by Tintin, Haddock, Dupont and Dupond, and of course Snowy, on the surface of the moon.

The ex-dono is signed "Buzz Aldrin, Apollo XI LMP" [ for Lunar Module Pilot: the manned missions of the Apollo program consisted of a crew of 3 astronauts, the Commander (CDR, Neil Armstrong), in charge of the crew; the Command Module Pilot (CMP, Michael Collins), who remained in orbit while his two crewmates were on the Moon, and the… Read More