Search Results: Authors starting with L from Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts

Paris: Gustave Barba, 1860 ¶ A SCARCE AND VERY VALUABLE COMPILATION comprising 232 moral fables in French verse, selected from the works of 127 fabulists other than La Fontaine and INCLUDING A FABLE ATTRIBUTED TO NAPOLÉON BONAPARTE, said to have been composed by him as a schoolboy at Brienne-le-Château. Each fabulist's work here is prefaced by a short bio-bibliographical note, ranging from two or three lines to a quarter page: Together these notes amount to a rudimentary BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE MINOR FRENCH FABULISTS circa 1530 - 1851, documenting some 140 fable-books in all. The editor inserts five of his own fables as well, explaining that 'Après avoir réuni les matériaux du présent recueil, il doit s'excuser d'y avoir inséré les fables suivantes, qui le déparent peut-être, mais qui ont l'avantage d'être inédites'. The whole work is prefaced by an essay on the history of the fable genre. The illustrator was… Read More

New York: St Martin's press, 1991 -- ONLY EDITION. Out of print.. First Edition. Black boards, dust-jacket. As new.. In 16s (234 x 156 mm). Pp. xii, 319..

Paris, 1931 210 x 135 mm: Two leaves, paginated [1-4]. Pages [2-4] are blank. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ('FNohain'), in French, 80 words, written in purple ink, 14 lines, recto only, on machine-made wove paper headed 'L'Echo de Paris / 6, Place de l'Opéra / Rédaction'. Envelope: 115 x 147 mm, the recto headed L'Écho de Paris &c top left, manuscript address in Legrand's hand to 'Monsieur Victor Moremans / rédr à la Gazette de Liege / 49 rue du General Bertrand / Liege' with 'Belgique' top right, in purple ink, stamped (75c x 2) and postmarked Paris-85 / 19 30 / 24 X / 1931 / Rue Gluck &c. One original fold, paperclip-stain top left, withal fine. *** THANKS FOR A FAVORABLE NOTICE OF LEGRAND'S 'FABLES': Writing from his office at the Echo de Paris to the Belgian journalist Victor Moremans at the Gazette de Liege, Legrand says that he is "well and deeply touched by such friendly and understanding lines as those that you generously agreed to devote to my… Read More

Venlo (The Netherlands): Uitgeverij Van Spijk, 1995 ¶ ONLY EDITION of the only monograph on the paintings of Jean-Michel Lengrand (1955– ), a contemporary French artist working mainly in oils on panel and employing materials and techniques descended from those of the Netherlandish masters of the fifteenth century; SIGNED by the artist. His work is almost unknown in the book world — and in America —; and yet a remarkably large number of his pictures will be OF EXCEPTIONAL INTEREST TO BOOKMEN: These include richly anthropomorphic portraits of writers (La Fontaine), scientists (Newton, Linnaeus, Darwin), and at least one printer (Gutenberg); subjects from Classical and early modern literature (Circe, Quixote) and fables (‘The wolf and the lamb’); and ‘archetypes’ in which books themselves appear as the elements of composition (Babel as a tower of books, the Ark built entirely of books). Lengrand is no illustrator; but rather he creates a parallel universe of… Read More

St Petersburg: izdatel'stvo LOLGU im. A. A. Zhdanova, 1967 -- ONLY EDITION; comprising an essay On the collection of incunabula at Leningrad university (pages 5-[16]), a catalogue of eighty-one incunabula (including thirty-seven from the library of Karl Wencke), indexes of printers, dates, names, and provenances, and concordances with GW and Hain. Twenty halftone facsimiles. One of 2,000 copies.. First Edition. Beige cloth, dust-jacket. Near fine.. In 8s (217 x 167 mm). Pp. 41, [42-64].

Hadley (Massachusetts), 1994     ¶ Only edition of this pioneering catalogue, annotated and priced. Contents: Native American literature: Fiction, poetry, art, items 1-415; Literature with Native American themes by non-native authors, 416-472; Nonfiction, primarily by Native American authors, 473-635.   ||| Collation: 229 x 153 mm: Forty leaves, paginated [1-80] (ie, not paginated). Text continues on lower wrapper recto.  Binding: Pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Fine.  .