Search Results: Titles starting with P from WALDEN Rarebooks

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FIRST EDITION.
Who is the enigmatic "Mr. W H." to whom are dedicated Shakespeare's Sonnets published in 1609? Much has been written about the mysterious dedication written by the printer at the time, and many hypotheses are still being discussed today. When he published this first version of the Portrait of Mr. W. H. in 1889, in Blackwood's magazine, Oscar Wilde echoed certain existing theories, and showed that he was perfectly familiar not only with the Elizabethan context of the Sonnets, but with the text of the strange poems in which the great playwright expresses the subtle and passionate flame of a complex love that hides and spreads out in the passage of a verse or a rhyme.
The fact remains that through this little drama with three characters linked around two letters, Wilde does the work of a novelist by staging his own reflections on the art of forgery and lying, which he believes to be at the heart of every work of art. Published a year before The Portrait of… Read More

[Paris, circa 1950], (120 x 170 mm), signed in graphite. The proof is signed "Man Ray" in graphite in the lower right-hand corner, and on the back is the poet Char's handwritten note "René Crevel ".
This proof is one of several that Man Ray supplied to his close friends in the 50s and 60s. A identical photo proof to this one - but unsigned - appeared in the Breton sale (2003, no. 5106).
Our proof is that of René Char, with a note on the verso in the poet's hand.
Crevel's suicide hit him hard. Years later, he would confess: "Since the death of this precious brother, I have not been able to reread a single one of his works. That's how much I miss him, the brilliance of his presence, the conquests of his thought of which he was prodigal. Of all the men I've known, he was the one who gave away the gold of his nature best and quickest. He didn't share, he gave."
The poet and literary critic Léon-Gabriel Gros castigated good society, which saw the poet's suicide as nothing more than a vulgar news item:… Read More

Paris, J. Barbou, 1764
1 vol. (100 x 170 mm) with [3] f., XLII p., [3] f., 292 p. and [4] f. Long-grained green morocco, richly ornamented spine, ornately framed boards with central medallion, silk spine boards and endpapers decorated with a gilt roulette, fillets on the edges, gilt edges (binding signed P. Bozerian on the spine).
A nice edition illustrated with a portrait-frontispiece of the author engraved by Louis Jacques Cathelin, after Daniel Dumonstier.
The Notes are by Anne Gabriel Meusnier de Querlon, and the Vie de Malherbe is taken from "Mémoires pour la vie de Malherbe" by Honorat de Bueil de Racan. This is the first edition to contain the "Lettre de Malherbe à Louis XIII, à l'occasion de la mort de son fils, qui fut tué en duel" (3 f.).
From the Henri Béraldi and Auguste Garnier libraries (ex-libris).
A magnificent copy in a delightful binding by Jean-Claude Bozerian l'aîné: "A binder of great renown during his lifetime, best known for his bindings decorated with borders in the… Read More

Mougins, Hotel "Vaste Horizon", August 7, 19371 postcard (120 x 160 mm) from the Facteur Cheval's palace in Hauterives, addressed to "Mr. Man Ray, 49 rue Denfert-Rochereau, Paris XIVe", signed by Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar, Paul, Nusch and Cécile Éluard, - then aged 19.
[the other visuals are given as illustrations of this summer of 1937 and these prints are not for sale.]Un été à la Garoupe: an exceptional account of the summer of '37, in Mougins, where the Eluard and Picasso couple were waiting for the Man Ray- Ady Fidelin couple. It's Monday, July 26, 1937: the departure date for Picasso and Dora Maa, who take their friends on the road to the Côte d'Azur: aboard the imposing Hispano-Suiza driven by Marcel, his personal chauffeur, we find Paul Éluard, his daughter Cécile and his wife, Nusch.
Picasso is coming off a fruitful and historic peruide: he has just completed Guernica, in his studio at 7, rue des Grands-Augustins. For the first time, Picasso painted in the presence of an observer: Dora… Read More