DOYLE, Arthur Conan; WOLLEN, William Barnes, illustrator

Adventures of Gerard

London: George Newnes, Limited, [1903]. Tales of a Napoleonic Soldier DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. Adventures of Gerard. London: George Newnes, [n.d. 1903]. First English edition. Octavo (7 5/16 x 4 7/8 inches; 166 x 124 mm.). vii, [3], 374 pp. Sixteen tipped-in plates by William Barnes Wollen. Publisher's dark blue cloth decoratively stamped (with a fleur-de-lis design) and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, white endpapers. Some light foxing, mostly to edges. Minimal marginal foxing, neat early ink signature on front flyleaf, minimal rubbing to extremities. Otherwise a near fine and bright copy. 10,000 copies were published on 22nd September 1903 priced 6/-. Eight additional tales of Etienne Gerard, a cavalry officer in Napoleon's army, a sequel to The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1896). "The author was very fond of these stories, which he found easy to write. He felt that they were accurate as a portrayal of the French soldiers of the period even down to the smallest details of the costumes and of the historical background" (Green and Gibson, p. 93, note to The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard). Green and Gibson A27a; Wolff 1897. .

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Book number: 04998

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: WOLLEN, William Barnes, illustrator Literature Naval and Military

[DOYLE, Richard, illustrator]

The Christening Procession of Prince Taffy

London: [Printed by W. Kohler for Messrs. Fores, 1842. The Christening Procession for the Prince of Wales [DOYLE, Richard]. The Christening Procession of Prince Taffy [later King Edward VII]. [Printed by W. Kohler for Messrs. Fores, Published 1, March, 1842]. Oblong twelvemo (4 15/16 x 8 5/8 inches; 126 x 219 mm.). Bound without the pictorial wrappers. Twenty-four hand-colored lithographed plates on twelve leaves depicting caricatures of royalty and court personalities in the christening procession for Edward VII (which took place on 25 January 1842). The figures depicted include: "Heralds," "Beadle of the Chapel Royal," "Choir of the Chapel Royal," "The Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, with the Baptism Water; out of the Pordan," "Bishops," "Chaplains in Ordinary to Her Majesty," "Her Majestys Private Organist, and Assistant," "Chapel Keeper, and Pew opener," "Women of the Bedchamber," "Court Physician and Apothecary," "The Royal Cot," "H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, borne by the Duchess of Buccturck. His Tail supported by two Pages," "The Wet Nurses," "The Dry Nurses," "Pap Bears to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales," "Knights of the Garter," "Maids of Honor," "The August Grand-Mama," "Beef Eaters," and "Spectators." Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 - 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and nicknamed "Bertie", Edward was related to royalty throughout Europe. He was Prince of Wales and heir apparent to the British throne for almost 60 years. Contemporary quarter brown roan over marbled boards. An excellent copy. From the library of J.R. Abbey, with his ink annotation on rear pastedown ("J.A 3408./1939"). Note: This panorama does not seem to appear in Abbey. Life in England. Gumuchian 2256; Victoria & Albert Museum E.2665:5-1953. .

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Book number: 05526

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Keywords: Caricatures English History Panoramas

DOYLE, Arthur Conan

Green Flag, the

London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1900. I have chosen them as the fittest survivors out of the tales which I have written during the last six years" DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Green Flag and other stories of War and Sport.. with a frontispiece. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1900. First English edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches; 192 x 130 mm.). viii, 348, [4, advertisements]. With an inserted frontispiece by Charles E. Fripp. Publisher's red cloth, front cover and spine pictorially blocked in black and lettered in gilt, black coated endpapers. Spine ends worn, front inner hinge slightly cracked, early ink inscription (dated 1904) on front pastedown. A few leaves poorly opened affecting blank margins only. A fair copy priced accordingly. 5,000 copies were published on 27th March 1900 priced 6/-. "It is difficult to make a volume of short stories homogeneous, but these have this in common, that they concern themselves with war and sport - a fact which may commend them to the temper of the times. Such as they are, I have chosen them as the fittest survivors out of the tales which I have written during the last six years. A. Conan Doyle (Preface). The Green Flag and Other Stories is a collection of action and adventures stories including Captain Sharkey, The Crime of the Brigadier, The Croxley Master, The Lord of Chateau Noir, A Shadow Before, The King of the Foxes, The Three Correspondents, The New Catacomb, and others.. The Green Flag was first published in the Pall Mall Magazine in June 1893. Green and Gibson A25a. .

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Book number: 05009

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Nineteenth-Century Literature Naval and Military

DOYLE, Arthur Conan

Land of Mist, the

London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. 1926. Another Professor Challenger Story.. DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Land of Mist. London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. [1926]. First English edition. Octavo. [i]-viii, 9-294, [295, advertisement], [1, blank], [-296 ad], [24, Hutchinson catalog for Spring of 1926] pp. Publisher's dark green cloth, front cover bordered and lettered in light green, spine lettered in light green, white endpapers. Top and bottom of spine, and lower joint worn. A good copy. This book was originally to be titled The Psychic Adventures of Edward Malone. Doyle wrote to the editor of the Strand Magazine on 23rd October 1924 to tell him about his latest book: "I have for years had a big psychic novel in me which shall deal realistically with every phase of the question, pro and con. I waited, I knew it would come. Now it has come, with a full head of steam, and I can hardly hold onto my pen it goes so fast - about 12 or 15,000 words in three days." Malone, as an inquiring newspaper man, and [Professor] Challenger as an outside sceptic are two of the main characters but every type will be drawn. I don't think it has ever been done by anyone who had the subject thoroughly at his fingers' ends before." "The book can be grouped with the other semi-autobiographical novel The Stark Munro Letters. It gives a detailed picture of the author's later years as a spiritualist, as the earlier one does of his years as a doctor. The characters and events in the book are drawn from life" (Green and Gibson). Approximately 3,000 copies were published on 19th March 1925 priced 7/6. Green and Gibson A45. .

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Book number: 05015

Catalogue: English Literature

DOYLE, Arthur Conan; WYETH, N.C. illustrator; ROUNTREE, Harry, illustrator

Last Galley, the

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1911. From Historical Romance to Swashbuckling Pirate Adventure.. DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Last Galley. Impressions and Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle. With Illustrations. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1911. First English edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches; 190 x 124 mm.). [viii], [1-3]-298, [299-312, publisher's catalog] pp. With a frontispiece by N.C. Wyeth and one plate by Harry Rountree. Publisher's dark red cloth, front cover blocked and titled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, white endpapers. With a neat early ink inscription dated 1911 on front pastedown. Some very light, mainly marginal foxing to first few leaves only. Minimal rubbing to extremities, an excellent copy. 6,000 copies were published on 26th April 1911 priced 6/-. The Last Galley is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle that was first published in The London Magazine in November 1910 and then in the 1911 collection of short stories, The Last Galley; Impressions And Tales". This fantastic collection includes stories spanning a multitude of genres. From historical romance to swashbuckling pirate adventure, this volume has got it all, and will appeal to a wide range of readers. Between 1910 and 1922, N.C. Wyeth did nineteen illustrations for Arthur Conan Doyle's fiction novels - The White Company (1922) having thirteen of them. Green & Gibson A35a. .

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Book number: 04996

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: WYETH, N.C. illustrator ROUNTREE, Harry, illustrator Illustrated Books

DOYLE, Arthur Conan

Our American Adventure [&] Our Second American Adventure. London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd. , [1923 & 1924]

London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1923. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Lectures on Spiritualism DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan. Our American Adventure [&] Our Second American Adventure. London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd. [1923 & 1924]. First English editions. Two octavo volumes (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 216 x 140 mm.). 205, [3, blank] pp. Inserted photographic frontispiece; [vi], 250 pp. Inserted photographic frontispiece and eight photographic plates. Publisher's black ribbed cloth, spines lettered in gilt, white endpapers. Spine extremities of second volume slightly worn, otherwise near fine. 1,500 copies were published on 16th March 1923 [&] 1,000 copies published on 15th February 1924 [both] priced 10/6. Our American Adventure is a trip report written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published serialized from 3rd September to 17th December 1922 in Lloyd's Sunday News, and in book form on 16th March 1923 by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. Arthur Conan Doyle tells about his trip to America and Canada from 9th April to 24th June 1922 where he toured lecturing about spiritualism in New York, Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, New Haven (Yale), Buffalo, Toronto, Detroit, Toledo and Chicago. Our Second American Adventure is a sequel to Our American Adventure and was first published on 15th February 1924 by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. Arthur Conan Doyle tells about his second tour of America and Canada (one year after the first one) from 3rd April and 4th August 1923 where traveling from New York to Rochester, Hydesville, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver and Canada. Green and Gibson B32a. [&] B33a. .

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Book number: 05012

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Biography

DOYLE, Arthur Conan; ROUNTREE, Harry, illustrator

Poison Belt, the

London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1913]. Humanity is Shocked into Placing a Higher Value on Life" DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Poison Belt. Being an account of another adventure of Prof. George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Prof. Summerlee, and Mr. E.D. Malone, the discoverers of "The Lost World". With 16 Illustrations by Harry Rountree. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1913]. First English edition. Octavo (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 188 x 124 mm.). [viii], [1-2]-199, [1, blank] pp. Frontispiece and fifteen plates tipped-in. Publisher's light blue cloth front cover blocked and titled in black, spine blocked in black and lettered in gilt, white endpapers, all edges untrimmed. Lower joint with small 1 1/2 inch split, spine slightly faded, corners and spine extremities a little rubbed. Still a much better than usually seen copy. 10,000 copies were published on 13th August 1913 priced 3/6d. The Poison Belt is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, the second book about Professor Challenger. Written in 1913, much of it takes place in a single room in Challenger's house in Sussex. This would be the last story written about Challenger until the 1920s, by which time Doyle's spiritualist beliefs had begun to influence his writing. Challenger sends telegrams asking his three companions from The Lost World— Edward Malone, Lord John Roxton, and Professor Summerlee— to join him at his home outside London, and instructs each of them to 'bring oxygen'. During their journey there, they see people's behaviour become excitable and erratic. On arrival they are ushered into a sealed room, along with Challenger and his wife. In the course of his researches into various phenomena, Challenger has predicted that the Earth is moving into a belt of poisonous ether which, based on its effect on the people of Sumatra earlier in the day, he expects to stifle humanity. Challenger seals them in the room with cylinders of oxygen, which he (correctly) believes will counter the effect of the ether. The five wait out the Earth's passage through the poison belt as they watch the world outside, human and animal, die and machines run amok. (According to Victorian values—or to Doyle's understanding of them—Challenger's servants are left outside the sealed room, and they continue to perform their duties until the ether overtakes them.) Finally, the last of the oxygen cylinders is emptied, and they open a window, ready to face death. To their surprise, they do not die, and conclude the Earth has now passed through the poison belt. They journey through the dead countryside in Challenger's car, finally arriving in London. They encounter only one survivor, an elderly, bed-ridden woman prescribed oxygen for her health. After returning to Challenger's house, they discover that the effect of the ether is temporary, and the world reawakens with no knowledge that they have lost any time at all. Eventually Challenger and his companions manage to convince the world what happened— a task made easier by the tremendous amount of death and destruction caused by runaway machines and fires that took place while the world was asleep—and humanity is shocked into placing a higher value on life. (Wikipedia). Green & Gibson A38a. .

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Book number: 04995

Catalogue: English Literature

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DOYLE, Arthur Conan; PAGET, Sidney, illustrator

Rodney Stone

London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1896. Arthur Conan Doyle's Boxing Novel, "Rodney Stone," with Eight Plates by Sidney Paget DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. [PAGET, Sidney, illustrator]. Rodney Stone. With Illustrations. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1896. First English edition. Octavo (7 9/16 x 5 inches; 192 x 127 mm. ). [8], 366, [10, publisher's advertisements] pp. Eight plates by Sidney Paget (including frontispiece, with tissue guard). Publisher's black diamond-grain cloth decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Dark brown coated endpapers. Front joint neatly repaired, otherwise a very good copy. 20,000 copies were published on 13th November 1896 priced 6/-. "‘They say that every form of knowledge comes useful [sic] sooner or later. Certainly my own experience in boxing and my very large acquaintance with the history of the prize-ring found their scope when I wrote ‘Rodney Stone.' No one but a fighting man would ever, I think, quite understand or appreciate some of the detail.'—Memories and Adventures (p. 273). "The author's knowledge and experience of boxing went back to his youth. In September 1894 he decided to use it in a ‘boxing play' which he hoped to write in conjunction with his brother-in-law, E.W. Hornung..He also envisioned a novel..During the summer of 1895 while at Upper Engadine and Caux he began the novel, having put the play aside, and it was finished in September..The book was very successful financially..The subject of boxing in the Regency period had already been touched on in ‘The Brigadier in England', and there are many subsequent stories. ‘An Impression of the Regency' is the one of most interest in connection with this book. It was the preliminary sketch which the author wrote to get the feel of the period, and although not intended for publication, it was published later. "The author believed that he was a pioneer, the first to get the ‘focus of the Regency as the subject of Romance'. He believed that his book was an important element in the surge of interest in the sport after the turn of the century and especially during the 1920, a belief supported by the number of newspapers and magazines which reprinted the story. The author placed Rodney Stone as the first volume of the Crowborough Edition, implying that he rated it, at least at the end of his life, on a par with The White Company" (Green and Gibson, pp. 97-98). Rodney Stone was serialized in The Strand Magazine, January-December 1896, with illustrations by Sidney Paget. Green and Gibson A20a. .

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Book number: 05008

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: PAGET, Sidney, illustrator Boxing Nineteenth-Century Literature Illustrated Books English Literature Illustrated Books Nineteenth-Century Literature Sports

DOYLE, Arthur Conan; CASTAIGNE, A, illustrator

Round the Fire Stories

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1908. A Collection of Short Stories to be Read Round the Fire on a Winter's Night "Concerned with the Grotesque and with the Terrible" DOYLE, Arthur Conan. Round the Fire Stories. With a frontispiece by A. Castaigne. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1908. First English edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches; 191 x 124 mm.). [viii], [1]-372, [373-376, publisher's catalog] pp. With a tipped-in frontispiece by A. Castaigne. Publisher's dark red cloth, front cover blocked and titled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, white endpapers, lower edges uncut. Minimal darkening to spine, a few slight marginal smudges, otherwise near fine. 6,000 copies were published on 24th September 1908 priced 6/-. "In a previous volume, "The Green Flag," I have assembled a number of my stories which deal with warfare or with sport. In the present collection those have been brought together which are concerned with the grotesque and with the terrible - such tales as might well be read "round the fire" upon a winter's night. This would be my ideal atmosphere for such stories, if an author might choose his time and place as an artist does the light and hanging of his picture. However, if they have the good fortune to give pleasure to any one, at any time or place, their author will be very satisfied." (Preface). Green & Gibson A33a. .

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Book number: 04997

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: CASTAIGNE, A, illustrator Horror

DOYLE, Arthur Conan; STEPHENS, Alice Barber, illustrator

Stark Munro Letters, the

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895. Mr. Stark Munro attempts to create a medical practice in partnership with the brilliant but unorthodox James Cullingworth.. DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Stark Munro Letters. Being a series of sixteen letters written by J. Stark Munro, M.B. to his friend and former fellow student, Herbert Swanborough, of Lowell, Massachusetts, during the years 1881-1884. Edited and arranged by A. Conan Doyle. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1895. First English edition. Octavo (7 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 184 x 124 mm.). [vi], 346, [1, printers device], [1, blank] pp. Publishers 24 pp catalog dated August 1895 bound in at end. Inserted frontispiece by Alice Barber Stephens with original tissue-guard. Minimal scattered marginal foxing otherwise fine. Publisher's dark green cloth over beveled boards, front cover and spine lettered in gilt, black coated endpapers. A near fine copy. 7,500 copies were published on 5th September 1895 priced 6/-. The Stark Munro Letters is an epistolary novel that takes the form of twelve long letters written by J. Stark Munro between March 1881 and November 1884 and sent to his friend Herbert Swanborough of Lowell, Massachusetts. Stark Munro is a recent graduate from medical school, and the letters detail his attempts to create a medical practice in partnership with the brilliant but unorthodox James Cullingworth. The novel is in fact a thinly disguised account of Doyle's experiences with George Turnavine Budd with whom he was in partnership in Plymouth, before finally setting up his own practice in Southsea, Portsmouth in 1882. Green and Gibson A18a. .

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Book number: 05019

Catalogue: Nineteenth-Century Literature

Keywords: STEPHENS, Alice Barber, illustrator Medicine

DOYLE, Arthur Conan

Three of Them

London: John Murray, 1923. This little book is an attempt to catch some of the fleeting phases of childhood.." (Introduction) DOYLE, Arthur Conan. Three of Them. A Reminiscence.. With a Frontispiece. London: John Murray, 1923. First English edition. Small octavo (6 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 172 x 120 mm.). viii, 99, 1, blank], [4, advertisements] pp. Sepia toned frontispiece on leaded paper tipped-in. Publisher's red linen spine over gray boards. Spine with printed paper label. Original pictorial dust jacket, minimal wear to extremities. Some light offset from publisher's glue on endpapers, otherwise a fine copy. Three of them is a series of five short stories that were first published in The Strand Magazine from April to December 1918. On 2nd November 1923, John Murray added two other short stories Billy Bones (1922) and The Forbidden Subject (1923) to the five, making a total of seven, with an introduction written by Doyle. .

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Book number: 05003

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Children's Books Modern Firsts

DOYLE, Arthur Conan; SAUBER, Robert, illustrator

Uncle Bernac

London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1897. I dare say that I had already read my uncle's letter a hundred times, and I am sure that I knew it by heart" DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. Uncle Bernac. A Memory of the Empire. London: Smith, Elder, & Co. 1897. First English edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 191 x 127 mm.). x, 300, [8, publishers advertisements] pp. Monotone frontispiece (with tissue-guard) and eleven monotone plates by Robert Sauber. Three leaves with slightly creased corners, a few light marginal stains, otherwise very good. Publisher's red cloth, front cover blocked and titled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, black coated endpapers. Inner hinges cracked, spine ends and corners a little rubbed. A good copy. 12,500 copies were published on 14th May 1897 priced 6/-. "I dare say that I had already read my uncle's letter a hundred times, and I am sure that I knew it by heart. None the less I took it out of my pocket, and, sitting on the side of the lugger, I went over it again with as much attention as if it were for the first time. It was written in a prim, angular hand, such as one might expect from a man who had begun life as a village attorney, and it was addressed to Louis de Laval, to the care of William Hargreaves, of the Green Man in Ashford, Kent. The landlord had many a hogshead of untaxed French brandy from the Normandy coast, and the letter had found its way by the same hands.." (Chapter I - The Coast of France). Robert Herman Sauber (1868-1936) was a British painter and illustrator. Green and Gibson A21a. .

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Book number: 05018

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: SAUBER, Robert, illustrator Nineteenth-Century Literature Naval and Military

DUHAYON, Henri; ROMAINS, Jules; BOFA, Gus [RAYON d'OR/LIBRAIRIE GALLIMARD]

Les Coupains

Paris: Le Rayon d'Or/Librairie Gallimard, 1952. A Spectacular Copy in a Stunning Binding Signed by the Author with an ALs by the Artist [DUHAYON, Henri, binder]. [BOFA, Gus, illustrator]. ROMAINS, Jules. Les Coupains. Avec douze aquarelles par Gus Bofa. N.p. [Paris]: Le Rayon d'Or, (1952). First edition illustrated by Bofa, limited to 3500 numbered copies sur vélin blanc des Papeteries de Lana, this being copy 3152. Octavo (8 1/4 x 6 1/8 in; 208 x 153 mm). 200, [1], [1, blank], [3, table], [1, blank], [1, colophon], [1, blank] pp. Twelve aquarelle plates, one of which has been inscribed by the artist to the owner. In a stunning contemporary binding by Henri Duhayon of Nice (stamp signed in gilt to inside front turn in) in full crushed cordovan morocco with large hand painted panel to upper and lower sides. Gilt lettered spine. Top edge gilt. Custom endpapers. A flawless copy in binder's leather edged slipcase. Signed and dated Nov. 1958 by the author, with a tipped in ALs by the artist, an inscription by French novelist and playwright Georges Duhamel dated Septembre 1958, and a TLs by the owner, Jean Francesche (with his blindstamped signed ex libris on inside front cover turn in). The eighth volume in Librairie Galimard's illustrated collection, Le Rayon d'or, a reissue of Romain's celebrated novel of 1913. Renowned artist Gus Bofa (b. Gustave Blanchot 1883-1968) was an illustrator for Rire and Sourire, a costume and set designer, a celebrated poster artist, and illustrator for the literary journal, Crapouillot. He soon became one of the most in demand illustrators of editions of Swift, La Fontaine, Cervantes, etc. ultimately with one hundred and seventeen volumes to his credit. (Ref. gusbofa.com). French novelist, poet, dramatist, and essayist Jules Romains (pseud. of Louis Farigoule 1885-1972) was, "early in his career..associated with a short-lived artistic community, the Groupe de 'Abbaye, which published his poems, La Vie unanime, in 1908. These poems wnad much of his later verse and prose, were influence by Unanimist theories of social groups and collective psychology. Before the war in 1914 he published more collections of poetry, a verse play..and two novels, Mort de quelqu'un (1911) and the farcial Les Copains [The Pals]" (New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, p. 707). Georges Duhamel's (1884-1966) experience as a surgeon during World War I produced Vie des martyrs (1917, tr. The New Book of Martyrs, 1918) and Civilisation (1918, tr. 1919). These collections of sketches are noted for their compassionate accounts of human suffering. He was successful as a dramatist; his Dans l'ombre des statues was performed in 1912 (tr. In the Shadow of Statues, 1914) and L'oeuvre des athlètes in 1920. His fiction includes two cycles of novels—Cycle de Salavin (1920-32, tr. 1936), about a sensitive eccentric, and Chronique des Pasquiers (1933-45, tr. 1937-46), about a bourgeois Parisian family. Essays in Scènes de la vie future (1930, tr. America: the Menace, 1931) and other collections reflect Duhamel's aversion to overindustrialization" (Columbia Enclyclopedia). He wrote passionately against war and its atrocities , and against the rise of Naziism. He was elected to the Académie Français in 1935. Though now largely forgotten, he is perhaps best remembered for his timeless epigram: "It is always brave to say what everyone thinks" The TLs by owner Jean Francesche reads: "The owner of this copy had read a book by Jules Romains, edited in 1958 by the Fayard Publishing House. It was the fourth book from the collection 'The Forty: MEMORIES AND SECRETS OF A WRITER.' "Page 128: 'In THE PALS, what part of the book is autobiographical and contains actual events?' "Page 129: 'It is not impossible to find a resemblance between the cheeks and glasses of Huchon with those of Duhamel, just as it is not impossible to find a certain pretentiousness in the future author of DESERT OF BIEVRES when Huchon prepares the veal stew as no one else can (to be more precise it was more like something between a stew and a roast)' "This revelation has led me to question the author's childhood friend on this detail, and Georges Duhamel, who like the author, has been made a member of the French Academy, was kind enough to write his answer on the half-title of this edition, which is illustrated by Gus Bofa. "I was also intrigued by the drawing where the artist had brought together 'THE PALS' and in which , I told him, it appeared that one of the characters had lost his head, or at least his cranium. "I asked him to please complete the drawing with a skillful stroke of his pencil. "He returned the drawing to me with an inscription as well as a curious letter which follows:. "I think that all of this adds to the interest of this charming volume [signed] Jean Franceche" Bofa's ALs response reads: Mr. N.D. des Champs Lundi 24 Novembre 88 Cher Monsieur, Votre lettre soulève un cas de conscience ! Votre «copain sans visage » n'a pas perdu la tête - il n'en a jamais eu - Jules Romain l'a voulu ainsi - lui, dans le même temps, mettait hors des soins, a une grande tendresse a portraiturer les autres copains. Bien loin de vouloir ajouter a ce bonhomme le coup de crayon que vous me demandez, je devrais plutôt regretter de lui ???? déjà, supposé un peu de menton, de bouche et de crâne, sans y être autorisé par le contexte. Avec mes deux mains bien sympatiques, [signature] Gus Bofa [Mr. N.D. des Champs Monday November, 24, ‘88 Dear Sir, Your letter stirs up a question of conscience! Your "pal without a face" has not lost his head - he never had one - Jules Romain wanted it like this, and at the same time he got a lot of tenderness into the process of drawing the other friends. Far from wanting to add the stroke of pencil to this man that you have asked me to, I regret that I cannot give him the supposed bit of chin, mouth and head, not being authorized to do so in this context. "With my two sympathetic hands, [signature] Gus Bofa] Duhamel's inscription reads: LES COPAINS Je n'ai aucune qualité pour poser ma signature sur le livre d'un ami de ma jeunesse; mais je dois dire que ma spécialité culinaire était alors le ragoût de moutons, & non le ragoût de veau. -[signature] G Duhamel Septembre 1958 [THE PALS I have no authority to put my signature on the book of my childhood friend; but I must say that my culinary specialty was lamb stew, not veal stew. -[signature] G. Duhamel September 1958] Monod 9851. .

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Book number: 01079

Catalogue: Fine Bindings

Keywords: ROMAINS, Jules BOFA, Gus [RAYON d'OR/LIBRAIRIE GALLIMARD] Books in French Fine Printing French Literature Literature

DUKE, Vernon

Passport to Paris

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1955. April in Paris" DUKE, Vernon. Passport to Paris. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1955]. First edition. Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 213 x 143 mm.). [x], [1]-502 pp. Eight pages of photographs between pp. 146 & 147. Publisher's green cloth over boards, front cover with publisher's blind stamp, spine ruled and lettered in silver. A very good copy in the original price-clipped pictorial dust jacket, small crease on front panel, small closed tear on rear panel repaired with tape. "Vernon Duke calls himself a musical Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and here are his memoirs. Passport to Paris is the story of a symphonic- vs. -stagestruck composer - born Vladimir Dukelsky in a small railroad station in Russia - who wrote a Diaghilev ballet, symphonic music praised by the critics, as well as numerous Broadway hits, including the score to Cabin in the Sky, and the ever-popular tune "April in Paris." Paris is the pivot on which these confessions turn - the full-blown Paris of Christian Bérard and Jean Cocteau and "Les Six," of the Ballet Russe under its incomparable impresario, Diaghilev. Vladimir Dukelsky fell in love with Paris. He writes vividly and longingly of his life there - of his plush and penniless days; his friendships and quarrels with Prokofiev, the Sitwells, Serge and Natalya Koussevitsky and a host of other luminaries..(jacket, front flap). Vernon Duke (1903-1969) was a Russian-born American composer and songwriter who also wrote under his birth name, Vladimir Dukelsky. He is best known for "Taking a Chance on Love," with lyrics by Ted Fetter and John Latouche (1940), "I Can't Get Started," with lyrics by Ira Gershwin (1936), "April in Paris," with lyrics by E. Y. ("Yip") Harburg (1932), and "What Is There To Say," for the Ziegfeld Follies of 1934, also with Harburg. He wrote the words and music for "Autumn in New York" (1934) for the revue Thumbs Up! In his book, American Popular Song, The Great Innovators 1900-1950, composer Alec Wilder praises this song, writing, "The verse may be the most ambitious I've ever seen." Duke also collaborated with lyricists Johnny Mercer, Ogden Nash, and Sammy Cahn. .

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Book number: 05880

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Dance Music Theater

DULAC, Edmund, Illustrator

Belle Au Bois Dormant, la [the Sleeping Beauty]

Paris: L'Edition d'Art H. Piazza & Cie, 1910. Numbered and Signed by the Artist In The Publishers Deluxe Morocco by Durvand A Variant Not Noted by Hughey [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. La Belle Au Bois Dormant [The Sleeping Beauty]. Et quelques aures contes de jadis. Préface de Edmund Pilon, Illustrations de Edmund Dulac. Paris: L'Edition d'Art H. Piazza & Cie, (1910). First edition in French, limited to 400 copies signed by the artist, this being copy no. 266. Quarto (11 5/8 x 9 in; 293 x 228 mm). 172, [1, limitation], [1, blank], [3, adv.], [1, blank] pp. With thirty color plates as in the first English limited edition but with grey-green borders, captions in French, and guard sheets as tissue. With an additional four extra head- and tailpieces, four decorated initials and border designs for text and chapter pages, and two small medallions, all printed in grey-green, not found in the first English limited edition. In the publisher's original full crushed brown morocco deluxe binding by Durvand (with elaborate gilt decoration, wrappers bound in). Top edge gilt. Spine very slightly sunned. A fine copy. Includes Le Barbe Bleue (Bluebeard), Cendrillon (Cinderella), and La Belle et la Béte (Beauty and the Beast). A variant not noted by Hughey, numbered and signed as 23x but specially bound as noted in 23z, aa yet in a variant leather color ("green or red"). "[Dulac's] best work..is to be found in The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales. His designs for the title story and 'Cinderella' have ornate eighteenth century settings ..No less ornate and rather more attractive are the eastern scenes conceived by Dulac for 'Bluebeard' and 'Beauty and the Beast'" (Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England 1790-1914, p. 209). "The most beautiful book ever published at a popular price" (Advert. 1910). "It is all that could be desired" (Illustrated London News, Dec. 3, 1919). Hughey 23x, 23z, aa. .

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Book number: 02808

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Fine Bindings Books in French French Literature Signed Limited Edition