Null Aragon. In French in the text. Published in Neuchatel by Ides et Calendes i…

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Aragon. In French in the text. Published in Neuchatel by Ides et Calendes in 1943. In-8 format, paperback. First edition printed in an edition of 1610 copies, of which this work is numbered 1310 on Biberist cream laid paper. Excellent condition.

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Aragon. In French in the text. Published in Neuchatel by Ides et Calendes in 1943. In-8 format, paperback. First edition printed in an edition of 1610 copies, of which this work is numbered 1310 on Biberist cream laid paper. Excellent condition.

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Louis ARAGON (1897-1982). Autograph manuscript signed, Madame à sa tour monte; 9pages in-fol. (minor wear to fold on last leaf). First version of the tale published in Le libertinage (Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1924). Significant variants from the published text. According to Aragon ("Avant-lire" in the 1977 edition), this first version dates from 1919; he adds: "I have perhaps never in my life rewritten, reworked a text so much", speaking of three or four successive versions. This one, via a typescript kept at Yale's Beinecke Library, was translated into English in The Dial in January 1922. The manuscript, written in black ink on large leaves with narrow margins, shows a few erasures and corrections. At the bottom of the last page, Aragon has inscribed a line from Baudelaire: "La froide majesté de la femme stérile C.B." (The cold majesty of the barren woman C.B.). In this tale, Aragon portrays a young woman named Matisse. "For the first time in literature, Matisse is not a Russian princess, but a redhead born in Les Batignolles, more than twenty years ago. Her arms, the longest in the world, end in barely outlined hands, so large that one imagines them made to support a pensive forehead"... And he concludes: "If Matisse weren't so coldly reasonable, she would soon dominate the city like Ninon in the past, and Sorel today. She's content to inhabit it.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 200 EUR

Louis ARAGON (1897-1982). Autograph manuscript signed, Note in vita di Madonna Elsa, [1960]; 3pages in-4, with a few erasures and corrections. Beautiful text in which Aragon talks about his poetry and acknowledges authorship of his translation of Petrarch's Five Sonnets (1947, with an etching by Picasso). This text was published at the head of the Poésies d'Aragon anthology presented by Jean Dutourd (Club du Meilleur Livre, 1960). "Cinq sonnets de Pétrarque avec une eau-forte de Picasso et les explications du traducteur" bears no other reference than the name of an imaginary publisher at La Fontaine de Vaucluse, and a date mcmxlvii. It is here for the first time that this book is admitted to be mine; it has never before appeared in the list of my works"... The myth of Petrarch and his muse Laure has always been of particular importance to Aragon, Laure often becoming a figure of Elsa, or the other way round: "I refer the curious to the Cantique à Elsa and to this part of my Henri Matisse, as yet unpublished [...]. Also to the poem at the end of Le Roman inachevé (Prose du bonheur et d'Elsa), to which I am particularly attached. [...] I would like to say here that everything I am, everything I have been, my heart, my life, my dreams, goes against a conception of poetry that makes the lyrical art of love a minor activity. For me, this art is man's highest achievement, his justification for being"... Etc. And he concludes: "And if anything remains of me, it will be, I swear, for having written everything I wrote in vita di Madonna Elsa".

Estim. 250 - 500 EUR

[Amsterdam maps and plans] Guicciardini/ Silvius. Amsterdam. 1567-1568 Handcol. etched bird's-eye plan, 25 x 34.5 cm (excluding letterpress caption and legend), w. French text verso. Centre fold as publ., marginal folds, otherwise a very fine copy. Hameleers 6, one of the two French Guicciardini eds. by Willem Sylvius, Antwerp, 1567 or 1568. Rare.

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Jean Cocteau and Aragon During the C.N.E. annual sale, 1952 Vintage silver print, typed caption in French on the back 18.3 x 13.2 cm

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