Lot n° 393
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- Lot 393
Jean PAULHAN - A collection of 7 works enriched with a mailing from Jean Paulhan to various personalities of the literary world.
Paris, Gallimard (6) or Société des médecins bibliophiles, various dates. In-12 or in-8, paperback.
- La Guérison sévère. With a portrait of the author by Pierre Creixhams engraved on wood by G. Aubert. Paris, La Nouvelle Revue Française, 1925. FIRST EDITION. Sent to Christian Bussy. Limited edition of 841 numbered copies. One of 750 numbered copies on vellum (n° 665). (Cover and spine faded).
- Carnet du spectateur. N° 1. Paris, Nouvelle Revue Française, November 1st, 1928. Slipped in the copy on a loose leaf a letter dated Nov. 19: "Dear Sir, I think Aytré has decided never to appear. Please accept in its place this beginning of a "critical method" [...]"
- Interviews on various facts. Portrait of the author by André Lhote. Paris, Georges Crès (for the Société des Médecins Bibliophiles), 1930. FIRST EDITION. Address "to Mr. Georges Crès, with the deepest gratitude and already, if he wishes, the friendship of Jean Paulhan (who is proud to see himself so well dressed). 'We must try to assure truths of the powerful support which comes to them from victory over doubt, and which they risk losing at any moment' (Sidgwick)."
- The Hain-Tenys. Paris, Gallimard, (1939). FIRST EDITION. Press copy. Sent to E. Leroy. Uncut.
- Key to poetry which allows to distinguish the true from the false in any observation or doctrine concerning rhyme, rhythm, verse, the poet and poetry. Paris], Gallimard, "Métamorphoses", (1944). FIRST EDITION. Copy of the press office. Letter to P. G. van Hecke (1887-1967), writer and especially editor of the famous avant-garde review "Variétés", with a quotation from volume II of Flaubert's correspondence "Nothing is more dissimilar than the pleasures of the body and those of the soul. One should therefore not look for them together" enriched with a drawing representing a key (allusion to the title), held by a string at the end of which is the following letter: "To Mr. P.G. van Hecke, with all the deep sympathy of Jean Paulhan, 1.2.45". Spine bent, cover faded.
- Interview on various facts. Illustrated by André Lhote. Paris], Gallimard, (1945). Letter to "Louis Thomas, his old comrade" accompanied by a quotation from Marivaux's "Cabinet des philosophes" "It is not that I lack illusions, he said. I have just as many as you. But I fear I have lost the sense of illusion."
- Of Straw and Grain. [Paris], Gallimard, (1948). Sent to Émilie Noulet (1892-1978), literary critic and professor at the ULB, a recognized specialist in Valéry and Mallarmé, accompanied by a quotation from Guizot's "Des Conspirations" "When war is between the parties, the parties work to carry war everywhere." Provenance: stamps of the bookshop A. Van Loock bookstore. Spine faded.
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