CHAYEFSKY PADDY: (1923-1981) CHAYEFSKY PADDY: (1923-1981) American playwright, s…

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CHAYEFSKY PADDY: (1923-1981)

CHAYEFSKY PADDY: (1923-1981) American playwright, screenwriter and novelist, Academy Award winner. Vintage signed and inscribed 7.5 x 9.5 photograph of Chayefsky seated in a three-quarter length pose holding a tobacco pipe in one hand and with an open book resting on his lap. Signed across a light area of the image, ´To Jim Wiggins, Where did you ever get this photograph? Paddy Chayefsky´ and dated 27th February 1962 in his hand. Scarce in this form. A few light surface creases, otherwise about VG

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CHAYEFSKY PADDY: (1923-1981)

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[Autographs]. [Gens de lettres et historiens]. Important collection of letters and signed documents, almost all autographed. Eighteenth to nineteenth centuries (moderate defects, the most serious are noted). - BEAUFORT D'HAUTPOUL, Anne-Marie de (1763-1837). Woman of letters. 1 supposedly autograph letter, to Baroness Paulin, April 8, 1830 + 1 lithograph portrait (wet)). - BÖTTIGER, Charles Auguste (1760-1835). German archaeologist, philologist and writer. 1 L.A.S. in German, to a friend, Dresden, 1824 + handwritten translation + 1 lithograph portrait. - CAILHAVA, Jean-François (1730-1813). Playwright, poet and critic. 1 autograph letter of condolence signed, to M. Laya in Sevran. - CESAROTTI, Melchior (1730-1808). Italian Catholic priest; professor of ancient Greek and Hebrew at the Seminary of Padua. 1 L.A.S., in Italian, from Padua, March 13, 1801, 1 page in-4 (foxing). - CHÉNIER, Marie-Joseph de (1764-1811). Member of the Convention, the Conseil des Cinq Cents and the Tribunat. Author of tragedies and lyricist of numerous revolutionary songs. 1 autograph bill signed, to Monsieur Laia [i.e. Laya], July 22, 1789, 1 page in-12 + 1 printed, Querelle de Saint-Roche, 8 pages in-12 + 2 portraits, one engraved (freckles), the other lithographed (wet). - COLET, Louise (1810-1876). French poet and woman of letters. I L.A.S., Tuesday 21, 2 p. + 1 lithographed portrait. - CUBIERES, Michel de (1752-1820). Writer, poet and philosopher. 1 L.A.S., Paris, 6 germinal an 13, 1 page in-folio (foxing). - DALTON, Jane (c. 1742-1817), British translator, botanist and bibliophile, who owned in particular the botanical books from Jean-Jacques Rousseau's library; correspondent of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, for whom she translated the first English version of Paul et Virginie, entitled "Paul and Mary, an Indian story" and published in 1789. L.A.S., to J. H. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. [Paris, s.d.]. 2 pages in-8. Staying in Paris, and having received no reply to her letter sent from London six weeks earlier, worries that she has not had "the pleasure of doing some errands for you", and adds "I want to flatter myself that you have preserved for me a remnant of friendship", and requests permission to visit Bernardin de Saint-Pierre at his home, "I wish infinitely to see [...] Virginie & little Paul". - DAMIRON, Jean-Philibert (1794-1862), Professor of philosophy at the Paris Faculty of Letters. Autograph bill signed. - DU CERCEAU, Jean-Antoine (1670-1730) French Jesuit priest, poet. Signed receipt dated February 1, 1718. - FAIN, Agathon-Jean-François (1778-1836). Intendant and private secretary to Napoleon I; keeper of the Imperial Archives. 1 L.A.S., Mainz, April 21, 1813, [to his son Camille], to his children, "mes chers petits amis", as he leaves for Germany. 2 p. in-12 + 1 medical prescription for him. - GUILLARD, Nicolas-François (1752-1814). Poet, playwright and librettist. 1 L.A.S., Paris, April 15, 1813, to Picard, director of the Acad. de Musique. 1 p. in-4. Announces his resignation from the literary jury. - LEGOUVÉ, Gabriel (1764-1812). Poet and playwright, member of the Institut and Académie française. Autograph bill signed, to a friend, July 7, 1811, 1 p. in-16. - LONGEPIERRE, Hilaire-Bernard de (1659-1731). Playwright, translator of Anacreon and Sapho, Bion and Moschus, secretary to the commands of the Duc de Berri. One signed receipt, on stamped parchment, [1690 ?]. - MARIN, François-Louis-Claude (1721-1809). Playwright and gazetier, royal censor and general secretary of the direction de la librairie. 1 Autograph letter signed, 1 p. ½ in-4, in which he denounces a publication likely to be favorable to Calvinists. - MARTAINVILLE, Alphonse (1776-1830). Playwright and journalist. A supposedly autograph song signed "fait par Martainville", 2 p. ½ in-4 + copy of his "Ode à Napoléon, 1807", 2 p. in-8 + 2 f. of later notes on the author. - PANARD, Charles-François (1689-1765). Poet, author of comedies, erotic poems and dithyrambs. A handwritten song, supposedly autograph. 1 p. in-folio (browning). - PELTIER, Jean-Gabriel (1760-1825). Journalist and pamphleteer, co-editor with Rivarol of Les Actes des Apôtres. An autograph letter signed, to M. Baudus in Hamburg, from London, August 22, 1787. 1 p. ½ in-4. Discusses newspapers whose late delivery (probably to Martinique) thwarts success with few subscribers + 1 signed autograph receipt for 2 subscriptions to his newspaper L'Ambigu, August 12, 1802. - SAINTE-BEUVE, Charles-Augustin (1804-1869). Novelist, poet and critic, member of the Académie fran

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