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90 - DU BOS, Charles. Excerpts from a Diary, 1908–1928.
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DU BOS, Charles. Excerpts from a Diary, 1908–1928. Paris, Editions de la Pléiade, Jacques Schiffrin, 1928. In-8 (21.5 x 15 cm), paperback, cloth-bound cover. Untrimmed. 369 pp. First edition of this selection of pages from the diary of Charles Du Bos (1882–1939). It was Father Mugnier who advised Charles Du Bos, who suffered from writer’s block, to keep a diary to get started. The writer began it very seriously in 1908, and this practice would take precedence over all other literary endeavors to form the bulk of his body of work. Printed in a run of 800 numbered copies. This one is a non-commercial edition, marked “H.C.,” on Marais vellum, signed with the author’s initials. A very fine copy, enhanced by an autographed dedication by Charles Du Bos to the journalist and musicologist Jacques Benoist-Méchin (1901–1983): “… this book, in which music serves as the point of convergence between ‘the real and the spiritual’...”
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