LESORT Paul-André Le fer rouge. Complete manuscript of this novel published in 1…

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LESORT Paul-André

Le fer rouge. Complete manuscript of this novel published in 1957 by Seuil. 108 pages in-4 numbered, numerous erasures and corrections. Autograph letter signed by the author to André Damien, "these pages sometimes still so uncertain and which afterwards take a strange unity", dated July 1973. Bound in-4 full brown morocco, spine with 5 nerves, title-pieces on orange leather, gold lettering and fleuron. Attached an autograph letter and card signed to Damien.

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LESORT Paul-André

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Francis JAMMES (1868-1938). Autograph manuscript signed, Le Rosaire au soleil, 1914; 127 small folios (30.5 x 20 cm) plus covers, bound in one volume in midnight blue morocco, ornate spine, inner lace, slipcase (Y. Massénat). Complete working manuscript of this novel. Le Rosaire au soleil was published in 1916 by Mercure de France. It is "the novel of the religious vocation of a young girl who spends herself lavishly on charitable work, from slums to bourgeois interiors" (H. Hargous). The title page bears the original title of the novel Dominica ou Le Rosaire de Lourdes, changed to Une Française ou Le Rosaire de Lourdes, the indication: "Commencé vers le 23 Mars 1914", and this note: "Action se passe en 1911-1912"; the subtitle "Roman catholique" has been crossed out. Complete first draft and working manuscript, abundantly crossed out and corrected, with passages crossed out and deleted. It is divided into three parts (of which the green covers have been preserved), each comprising several chapters for which Jammes has noted the date of the action: - (joyful mysteries): L'Annonciation (March 25, 1911), La Visitation (May 8), La Nativité (May 15), La Purification (June), Le recouvrement de N. Seigneur au Temple (June); - (sorrowful mysteries): The Agony (October), The Flagellation (December), The Crowning with Thorns (December), The Carrying of the Cross (January 1912), The Crucifixion (February); - (glorious mysteries): The Resurrection (May), The Ascension (May), Pentecost (June), The Assumption. Former Daniel Sickles collection (March 19, 1986, no. 83).

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