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Title: "Je Sais Saluer la Beauté"
Author: VOINQUEL, Raymond
Price: $ 15
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Publisher: Paris (2006). 32pp
Year: 2006
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Catalogue of an exhibition of Voinquel's photographs, with numerous reproductions: Cocteau, Piaf, Audrey Hepburn, Gerard Philipe, Arletty, Orson Welles and others.
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Title: (Alexandrian Songs)
Author: KUZMIN, M[ikhail]
Price: $ 650
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Publisher: Petersburg: Prometei (ND) [1921]. 74pp.
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The gay Symbolist poet's free verse cycle drawn from his early experiences in Alexandria. Written between 1905 and 1908, these love poems are said to be the first significant cycle of free verse written in Russian and form the basis for their author's international reputation. Kuzmin employed several voices, both male and female, to express the love for young men to recreate the atmosphere of Alexandria under Hadrian the Great. Harold Bloom included this title in The Western Canon (1994). A good copy in worn wrappers, the front wrapper is detached and the rear wrapper is not present, small chips and marks to front wrapper. The book is laid into plain brown wrappers. Rare.
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Title: .au jardin des jeux secrets
Author: L'HERBIER, Marcel
Price: $ 750
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Publisher: Paris: Sansot (1914). 271pp.
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An early dramatic work written when the renowned film director was 26 years old and just beginning his career in film. The work references a number of personalities of the period: Gabrielle d'Annunzio, Ida Rubinstein, Bakst and a cast of characters including many of unconventional sexuality. The theme of Socratic love permeates the work and the primary character "Sir Gerald" is at the center of a series of complicated relationships, set mostly in France. A very good copy in somewhat dusty wrappers, light edgewear and sunning. Th ebook bears a printed dedication to Oscar Wilde "créancier de nos paroxysmes." Uncommon.
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Title: 14, rue du Centre
Author: (WILSHAW, Arturo Lopez) Jullian, Philippe
Price: $ 1100
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Publisher: Privately Printed: Monaco (1961). oblong 4to
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The lavishly produced testament to Lopez-Wilshaw's extraordinary home in Neuilly sur Seine. Thirty original photographs by Jean Vincent of the interior decor and gardens are tipped into the text by Philippe Jullian. Printed in two colors on heavyweight Auvergne papers, red silk endpapers. One of 300 numbered copies, this example is inscribed by Patricia Lopez-Wilshaw to Philippe Tallieu in 1964 on colophon page. Laid into the book are two original typed pages entitled “Decoration de la Salle des Fetes” and “Renseignements de Provenance”. Both describe in detail the decoration of the room with various kinds of shells (more than 169,300 in total). Internally the book is fine with all tissue guards present. Uncommon.
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Title: 1830
Author: CREVEL, René
Price: $ 600
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Publisher: Englewood: As Stable Publications (1926)
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The surreal story of a young one-legged woman and her paramour and the bizarre events surrounding their ill-faited union. The story was given by Crevel to the young George Platt Lynes on his first visit to Paris and he returned home and printed the book at his home in New Jersey, before embarking on his career in photography. A lovely copy of an uncommon publication, issued here in French. The first English edition of the work was issued by Elysium Press in 1996, with illustrations by Jonathan Hammer. One of 300 copies, this example unnumbered in original wrappers with drawing by Phelan Gibb.
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