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IMPRESSIONS. Critique littéraire et artistique. (Virginia Woolf association copy)

IMPRESSIONS. Critique littéraire et artistique. (Virginia Woolf association copy)

Roger Brocas / Yves Picart (editor), Marguerite Yourcenar, et al. (Virginia Woolf association copy) Twenty issues bound in one volume, a complete run of this extremely rare literary journal (I could locate only the BN copy). VIRGINIA WOOLF'S SET, WITH THE RETAINED CARBON COPY OF HER UNPUBLISHED LETTER THANKING THE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL FOR DEVOTING DOUBLE ISSUE 19-20 (the final issue, as it turned out) TO A HOMAGE IN HER HONOR. Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987), still in her twenties but already gaining recognition in French literary circles, had just translated "The Waves" into French and had gone to meet Virginia Woolf in Bloomsbury. Perhaps at Yourcenar's instance, the journal decided to devote an issue to Woolf. Woolf wrote a brief letter thanking the journal for this honor: the letter is printed on page four of the issue, just before Yourcenar's article. After the issue was published, the editors sent her a complete set (THE SET I AM OFFERING) and Woolf wrote a second letter of thanks (about 150 words), this one unpublished, HER REACTION TO THE FIRST HOMAGE SHE EVER RECEIVED FROM A LITERARY JOURNAL (please correct me if I'm wrong) and the only such honor she received before her early death (the letter is dated 31st March 38, less than three years before her death.) Her retained copy of this letter, neatly folded once, is laid into this book. While it is a carbon copy and thus unsigned, there are two tiny corrections in Woolf's hand--amusingly, she corrects "Tavisock Square" to "Tavisotck Square" [sic] in ink. A TRULY REMARKABLE ASSOCIATION COPY, AND A COMPLETE SET OF AN EXTREMELY RARE LITERARY JOURNAL. Thick 4to. Quarter cloth and decorated boards. FRONT AND BACK WRAPPERS OF ALL PARTS PRESERVED. Tiny traces of wear to extremities, else FINE AND BRIGHT. (NOTE: SInce Woolf's letter is unpublished, I WILL NOT send full pictures of it to interested parties.)
  • $9,750
  • $9,750
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Lumière du Mexique. Lithographies originales de Yves Brayer.

A UNIQUE COPY of this evocative livre d'artiste, illustrated with 29 ORIGINAL COLOR LITHOGRAPHS BY YVES BRAYER, sympathetically depicting daily life in Mexico. One of 150 copies printed on very fine Arches wove paper. This copy printed for "Le Docteur Zerbib", with a SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION from Brayer to Zerbib on the half-title. In addition to the book itself, this copy includes: (A) One of ten suites of the lithographs printed on Auvergne wove paper (another ten suites were printed on Japanese paper); (B) A menu from the gala dinner of the Bibliophiles de l'Automobile-Club de France, at which the book was presented, printed on Arches wove paper (4 pp, the last blank). The full-page lithograph on the cover has been signed in ink by Brayer. The third page, with the list of dishes to be served, includes a signed presentation inscription from the author and a SIGNED DRAWING by Brayer of a Mexican on a horse; (C) A CHARMING SIGNED ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR BY BRAYER; (D) Two signed and annotated bons à tirer for lithographs appearing in the book; (E) Page proofs for pp. 29-32, with a lithograph SIGNED by Brayer, and three color separation proofs for that lithograph, of which two are annotated. Folio. Loose as issued in original wraps. FINE AND BRIGHT. Housed in the original cloth chemise and slipcase. The suite is housed in a matching chemise and slipcase. AN OUTSTANDING COPY OF A SENSITIVE AND ENGAGING LIVRE D'ARTISTE.