Search Results: Titles starting with C from WALDEN Rarebooks

[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

S.l.n.é. [Londres], [Hoberkon pour Jean Nourse], 1759. 1 vol. (105 x 165 mm) de 299 p. et [1] f. Maroquin rouge foncé, dos à nerfs orné de filets à froid, titre doré, date en pied, tranches dorées, doublures de maroquin bleu encadré du même maroquin rouge, large dentelle d'encadrement dorée, étui bordé, double filet sur les coupes (reliure signée de E[mile] et A[ndré] Maylander).
Bibliographers have identified 17 different editions of Candide, published with the same title page, on the same date, without the name of a town or mention of a printer or publisher, and in the same format. Which edition is the princeps has long been "one of the most controversial problems in Voltairian bibliography" (Bengesco, I, p. XVII).
Giles Barber, like André Morize, asserts that the problem of textual variants is only a chronological problem in the history of the Genevan edition and that all the 1759 editions are from a single source (cf Giles Barber, Modèle genevois et modèle européen. Le cas de… Read More

Barcelona, Galeries d'Art Catalonia, October 1, 1934. Minuscule (35 x 8 mm). Paperback.
Josep Dalmau gallery catalog; Dali's second exhibition in Barcelona. Rare Josep Dalmau gallery catalog; Dali's second exhibition in Barcelona.
In 1934, Dali exhibited at the Exposition du Cinquantenaire at the Salon des Indépendants in the Grand Palais in Paris, disregarding the opinion of the rest of the Surrealists who had decided not to take part, a fact that practically led to his expulsion from the group led by Breton. He then held his first solo exhibition at the Zwemmer Gallery in London, before embarking with Gala on the Champlain for his first trip to the United States.
Two of Dalí's solo exhibitions were held there: one at the Julien Levy Gallery and the other at the Avery Memorial at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Harord (Connecticut).
But five of the paintings would be shown a few months earlier in Barcelona: from October 2 to 4, Josep Dalmau i Rafel, one of the key figures of the Spanish avant-garde since… 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

[NOTICE EN FRANÇAIS À LA SUITE]
Paris, Louis Broder, collection " Écrits et Gravures ", n° 2, (24 October) 1956. 1 vol. (190 x 255 mm) of 122 p. and [1] f. In wrappers and its original slipcase.
FIRST EDITION.
Printed by :
Imprimerie Union for the text and typography
Atelier Desjobert for the lithographs
Atelier Georges Leblanc for the drypoints
Georges Aubert for the woodcuts.
Print run
First issue printed at 170 copies on vergé de Montval, of which :
30 copies with the suite on old japon (1-30) - which contain the lithograph of the frontispiece and the 3 drypoints [the justification of the print run announces only the frontispiece without the suite] ;
120 numbered copies (31-150);
20 extra numbered copies in Roman numerals (I-XX).
All signed by the artist, only in the justification.
Our copy is one of the first 30, with the 3 drypoints on japon ancien and the frontispiece suite (copy no. 2).
Note the existence of a unique hors commerce copy, produced for and by the publisher Louis Broder,… Read More

[NOTICE EN FRANÇAIS À LA SUITE]
Paris, Louis Broder, collection " Écrits et Gravures ", n° 2, (24 October) 1956. 1 vol. (190 x 255 mm) of 122 p. and [1] f. Garnet morocco, cold fillet decoration on the boards, repetition of the decoration on the spine, blue morocco lining, silk endpapers, gilt title, gilt edges on witnesses, illustrated cover preserved, lined folder and case (binding signed by Semet et Plumelle, 1960).
FIRST EDITION.
UNIQUE COPY PRINTED ON JAPON. THE EDITOR'S ONE, WITH ORIGINAL DRAWING BY PICASSO AND UNIQUE EXTRA SUITE.
Printed by :
Imprimerie Union for the text and typography
Atelier Desjobert for the lithographs
Atelier Georges Leblanc for the drypoints
Georges Aubert for the woodcuts.
Print run
First issue printed at 170 copies on vergé de Montval, of which :
30 copies with the suite on old japon (1-30) - which contain the lithograph of the frontispiece and the 3 drypoints [the justification of the print run announces only the frontispiece without the suite] ;
120 numbered… Read More