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Piece of paper, measuring 7,5 x 12 cm, showing the following message, handwritten in ink:
“Friedrich Gundolf / in wahrer Hochschätzung und Ergebenheit / L. Andrian / 24 Oct. 30.”.
A fine genuine dedication from Leopold Freiherr Ferdinand von Andrian zu Werburg (1875-1951), Austrian diplomat and poet, author of the cult classic Der Garten der Erkenntnis, to Friedrich Gundolf, born Friedrich Leopold Gundelfinger (1880–1931), Weimar academic, poet, author and prominent member of Stefan George’s circle.
This dedication was written on the half title of Gundolf's copy of Andrian’s book Die Ständeordnung des Alls. Rationales Weltbild eines katholischen Dichters (München 1930), a fine and rare book we sold in the 1990's.
Apparantly the buyer did not like this title: sadly enough this is what's left of this association copy when we retrieved it a number of years ago...
However, handwritten material related to any of these two authors - let alone in a combination like this - is very hard to find.
LEOPOLD ANDRIAN - De Tuin van de Openbaring/Der Garten der Erkentniss - Amsterdam, Astèr, 1984 - gilt cloth (Phoenix) - large 8vo - 60 euro
Dutch translation by Albert Verwey and Stefan George of Leopold Andrian's most famous work, Der Garten der Erkenntnis, first published in 1905/06.
Privately printed in a limited edition of 125 copies and stylishly bound in gilt red cloth.
Dutch private press edition finely printed by hand in green and black in a limited edition of 73 copies.
This is one of 33 deluxe copies with a signed lithographed portrait made by Czech artist Vladimir Suchanek as a frontispiece.
Splendid copy from a famous Dutch library.
Copy of the "deuxième edition" of Nadja, the classic Surrealist novel by André Breton (1896-1966), founder of the Surrealist Movement.
This copy, rebound in silver paper-covered boards, comes with a SIGNED DEDICATION by the author: “E. Van Moerkerken / très amical souvenir d’André Breton”.
Emiel van Moerkerken was a Dutch photographer who worked in the tradition of the French Surrealists in his early years.
According to a note in his handwriting, this dedication was obtained in Paris, August 1936.
During several interviews Van Moerkerken has given accounts of further interactions with Breton, who offered to mediate in his efforts to have some of the photographer's work in the famous MINOTAURE magazine.
Unfortunately this was not to be, as contact stopped abruptly due to some sort of "political misunderstanding" between the two of them.
André Breton's legacy is well preserved and well documented, his former collection contains at least 5 of Van Moerkerken's photographs.
Broadside printed in 4 colours on very thin blue paper announcing Bukowksi's 1983 short story Bring Me Your Love, illustrated by Robert Crumb: a "mind-destroying collaboration between two giants of the American Underground".
This example is part of the edition issued for the Dutch market with adjusted publisher’s address in the lower margin, pricing in Dutch guilders.
Clean copy of this vulnerable item, with just one very vague horizontal fold.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI - Hot Water Music, Broadside/Flyer Nr. 10 - Santa Barbara/Amsterdam, Black Sparrow Press/Small Press Distribution, 1983 - 43 x 25,5 cm - 35 euro
Broadside printed in 4 colours on very thin white paper, announcing Bukowksi's 1983 novel Hot Water Music, revealing the first few lines of the book.
This example is part of the edition issued for the Dutch market with adjusted publisher’s address in the lower margin, pricing in Dutch guilders.
Clean copy of this vulnerable item, with just one vague horizontal fold.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI - Talking to my Mailbox, Broadside/Flyer Nr. 13 - Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1984 - 38 x 25 cm - 1st edition - 40 euro
Broadside printed in 4 colours on peach paper, showing a printed poem soon to be published in Bukowski's 1984 book War All The Time: Poems 1981-1984.
UNFOLDED copy with some very mild traces of handling.
Paper target from Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, SIGNED BY WILLIAM BURROUGHS in black feltpen during a signing session in a bookshop in the same city, during a European tour, November 1984. William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) was one of the most influential authors from the Beat generation, his fascination with guns and shooting has been widely documented.
(WILLIAM BURROUGHS) Robert A. Sobieszek - Ports of Entry: WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS and the Arts - New York,Thames & Hudson, 1996 - stiff paper wrappers - 4to - 1st and only edition - 28 euro
Illustrated survey on the subject, with an afterword by William Burroughs.
Work by WSB / works inspired by WSB, including Brion Gysin, but also Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
A near mint copy of the first publication of these 14 hard boiled stories by Raymond Chandler (1888-1956), in very bright near mint (but clipped) dustjacket finely printed after a very powerful design by Youngman Carter.
CHEVALIER de CHEVRIER - Les amusements des dames de Bruxelles. Histoire honnête et presque édifiante - Bruxelles, Gay & Doucé [1881] - with a frontispiece by FELICIEN ROPS - contemporary half calf - small 8vo - 85 euro
Texts by playwright and satirist François-Antoine Chevrier, originally published in 1762, charmingly printed in red and black on yellow paper in a limited edition of 500 copies, with a frontispiece by FELICIEN ROPS.
Fine, in contemporary calf-backed boards with corners, original wrappers bound in.
First UK edition of Bob Dylan's first and only novel, written in 1966 but not officially published until 1971 (although heavily bootlegged in the mean time).
Fine copy in unclipped dustjacket, showing an early portrait by Jerry Schatzberg.
(EROTICA) L Erotica Rarissima - Utrecht, J.L. Beijers, 1981 - illustrated - stiff paper wrappers - small 8vo - 40 euro
Small but fine sales catalogue, issued in an edition of 250 hand numbered copies, presenting 50 rare pieces of erotica from the library of a Dutch author and collector.
Mint, with price list, in original envelope issued by The Mediaeval and Renaissance Bookshop / J.L. Beijers.
(EROTICA] L Erotica Rarissima - Utrecht, J.L. Beijers, 1981 - illustrated - stiff paper wrappers - small 8vo - 22 euro
As above.
Nice copy with price list, but with a nick in the right hand upper corner.
Second edition of the author's first and only novel, with a new introduction by Thomas Pynchon.
Richard Farina (1937-1966), one of the top talents to emerge from the 1960's New York Greenwich Village folk music scene, died shortly after publication of the first edition of this work.
The classic tale, first published in 1877 as one of Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)’s Trois Contes, now printed in a limited edition of 500 copies, with original illustrations by GEORGES ROCHEGROSSE “gravées à l'eau-forte” by E. Champolion, preface by Anatole France.
This is one of 300 copies on Velin d’Arches and one of only 50 large paper copies.
This copy comes in a fine and elegant binding by CHARLES MEUNIER: straight orange crushed morocco spine, decorated with a Roman legionary’s helmet in gold surrounded by gilt and inlaid flowers, boards with morocco corner pieces and covered with finely marbled paper, top edge gilt.
Clean and crisp copy, original wrappers bound in, as well as a 4 page publisher’s brochure with 2 of the etchings from the book.
A fine combination of a first class author, illustrator and bookbinder: Georges Rochegrosse (1859-1938) was a highly respected painter/illustrator and Charles Meunier (1866-1946) was one of the greatest binders of the period.
Monod 4639; Carteret IV,161; Vicaire III,731.
As above.
The image shows the spine of Charles Meunier's excellent binding amidst a few other finely bound books described on this page.
SP copy of the first edition of this short historic novel by André Gide (1869-1951), rebound in plain greyish cloth, with a SIGNED DEDICATION by the author: “ Monsieur E. van Moerkerken / en cordial hommage / Andre Gide”.
Emiel van Moerkerken was a Dutch photographer (see our photography section), known for a great number of portraits of Dutch and foreign artists and authors, including Paul Leautaud, Henri de Montherlant and Andre Gide.
Moreover this copy comes with a typed letter by Gide’s private secretary, September 1946, which proofs that this copy has been sent on Gide’s behalf, as a token of gratitude for the receipt of a number of photographs.
By means of the same letter Van Moerkerken is granted permission for the inclusion of a portrait (“cette seule photo”) in his book Reportages in Licht en Schaduw (“dans se seul album”), published in 1947.
Added is a small original print of another image of Gide with the photographer’s stamp and handwritten remarks on the back.
W.S. GILBERT - The Bab Ballads, with which are included Songs of a Savoyard - London/New York, George Routledge and Sons, 1902 - with illustrations by the author - contemporary gilt half morocco - large 8vo - 5th edition - 85 euro
Fifth edition of this collection of light verses by William Schwenck Gilbert (of GILBERT AND SULLIVAN fame), illustrated with his own comic drawings, published during the 1860/70’s, first published as a collection in 1897.
This copy in an attractive contemporary private binding: black morocco spine with gilt decorations in Art Nouveau-style, black morocco corner pieces, top edge gilt.
Some damage to the binding, some staining inside.
Deluxe edition, issued in a limited edition of 350 copies, all numbered and SIGNED BY JOHN GRISHAM, bound in green cloth-covered boards and matching slipcase.
A fine copy, only slightly sunned around the edges, of this great novel: Grisham's first major work outside the legal thriller genre
Short autobiographical text written in 1900, printed in a limited edition of 1221 copies, originally published in printed wrappers.
This copy superbly bound in the late 1980's by renown Swiss bookbinder Roland Meuter (Ascona): dark blue morocco spine with titles in gold, boards pasted over with handpainted paper also showing a text in letterpress, partly blindstamped.
Very fine, in plain paper slipcase.
NB: The printed and blindstamped texts on the binding are handset letterpress parts of Der Dichter, from Hesse's Zwei Märchen, issued by Meuter’s Ascona Presse in 1986.
Photograph of a buste of Herman Hesse (1877-1962), author of Der Steppenwolf, Siddharta and other famous novels, INITIALLED "H.H." BY HERMANN HESSE in blue ink.
On the back we read the following message in pencil, in Hesse's handwriting:
"Büste von O. Bänninger 1957 / Der lieben Frau ENGLERT von Ihrem H. Hesse".
The photograph is packed in an envelope hand addressed by the author to Frau G. ENGLERT / Ober Alpina / St. Moritz, postmark 1958.
NB: GEORGINE ENGLERT was the widow of JOSEF ENGLERT (1874-1957), an engineer and architect who had met Hesse in Montagnola in 1920. The two men became close friends, and as Englert became wealthy in the late 1920s, he increasingly acted as Hesse's patron, commissioning calligraphic manuscripts from him, supporting private publications, etc.
HERMANN HESSE - initialled original photograph - 11 x 8,5 cm - 160 euro
Small original black and white photograph showing Herman Hesse (1877-1962) wearing a straw hat, at rest while at work in the garden of his Casa Rossa in Montagnola, Ticino, Switzerland.
This photograph, taken by his son Martin Hesse in 1935, has been INITIALLED "H.H." BY HERMAN HESSE in blue ink.
From the collection of Josef and Georgine Englert (see items above), some residue of glue on the back.
Original black and white photograph showing a portrait of Herman Hesse (1877-1962), author of Der Steppenwolf, Siddharta and other famous novels.
This fine photograph by an unknown photographer shows the author in a pensive mood and has been INITIALLED "H.H. / 1952" BY HERMAN HESSE in blue ink.
From the collection of Josef and Georgine Englert (see items above), some residue of glue on the back.
HERMANN HESSE - signed postcard reproduction - 15 x 10 cm - 190 euro
Picture postcard showing a black and white reproduction of a watercolour by Herman Hesse (1877-1962).
This card has been SIGNED AND DEDICATED BY HERMAN HESSE: "Herzlich grüsst Ihr H. Hesse".
A fine item from the collection of Josef and Georgine Englert (see items above), presumably dating from the 1950’s.
Residue of glue and some damage on the back, not visible on the front.
Bi-lingual edition (French and Dutch) of a number of poems by Dutch author Gerrit Kouwenaar, hand-printed in a limited edition of only 50 copies (plus 6 H.C.), all with a SIGNED ETCHING and an EMBOSSING by COBRA-artist CONSTANT [= Constant Nieuwenhuys].
All copies, printed on 230 grs Hahnemühle, were SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ARTIST in the colophon and come with a loosely added COLOUR ETCHING (sheet size 36 x 27 cm, image, size 14 x 18 cm) numbered and SIGNED by CONSTANT, one of the pages shows a embossed image of this fine etching.
Superb and delicate; mint in original white paper covered heavy card slipcase.
NB: The second collaboration between the two artists: in 1949 they created the book Goede Morgen Haan (Good morning, Rooster) one of the highlights in the field of Cobra publications.
As above.
The image shows Constant’s wonderful etching.
The Constant Foundation lists this etching, in combination with the embossing, as “The Chair [III]”. Versions [I] and [II] were published in 1971 in an edition of 20 and 200 copies respectively.
Handwritten letter by the famous French romantic poet Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869), 16 lines in brown ink on a sheet of tinted paper, verso and recto, and finely signed.
This is a letter of recommandation to a “Monsieur le Comte” concerning the request for financial support (“votre interest pouvait jamais été mieux employé”) of a young artist and sculptor named Francois Jouffroy.
The identity of “Monsieur le Comte” remains unknown, however, FRANCOIS JOUFFROY became a succesful artist and sculptor, who was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1832.
In 1843 Jouffroy made a marble buste of Alphonse de Lamartine, now in the Musée Lamartine, Marcon, France.
Third printing of this famous novel, March 1964, published a mere 6 months after the original, in exactly the same shape.
The title of the book became an inspiration for the legendary New York band which was formed late 1964.
Tight and clean copy with some minor faults only.
First illustrated edition of this short historical novel (1894), printed in a limited edition of 400 copies, with 12 etchings in various sizes by Xavier Leseur after Louis-Edouard Fournier.
This is one of only 30 copies with the etching in 3 states, each with an ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING IN PENCIL BY LOUIS-EDOUARD FOURNIER on one of the first blank pages, this copy (on Japanese paper) contains a delicate image (ca. 15 x 10 cm) of the nymph AMALTHAEA.
Finely bound by master binder PETRUS RUBAN: straight brown crushed morocco spine with Art Nouveau flower designs laid in, boards pasted over with marbled paper, large morocco corner pieces, a 4 page annoucement bound in, original decorated wrappers preserved.
NB: Louis Edouard Fournier (1857-1917) was a French painter and illustrator. His most famous painting is The Funeral of Shelley, which is in the collection of the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Stage adaption of Lennon's In His Own Write (1964) and A Spaniard in the Works (1965), as performed by the National Theatre Company in 1967, directed by Victor Spinetti.
Foreword by Victor Spinetti, frontispiece by Tony Walton, stage designer of the play.
A surprisingly bright and clean copy of this uncommon book, with unclipped dustjacket.
JOHN LENNON - A Spaniard in the Works - London, Jonathan cape, 1965 - decorated boards - small 8vo - 3rd edition - 45 euro
Contemporary reprint from 1965 (the same year the first edition was published) of John Lennon’s second book, printed in green and brown after a great design by Robert Freeman, with illustrations by the author.
Nice copy, the laminate on the cover partly wrinkled.
Piece of roughly cut beige cardboard, 15 x 12 cm, EMBELLISHED BY HAND in black feltpen by JOHN LENNON.
The scrap shows the handwritten text LOVE, JOHN LENNON 78 plus an original self caricature.
PROVENANCE:
Made by John Lennon in Rupert Jasen Smith’s studio, Soho, New York, around Christmas time 1978.
Rupert Jasen Smith (also Andy Warhol’s master silkscreen printer from 1974 until the artist’s death in 1987) was working on a project called Yoko as Mona Lisa), an exclusive silkscreen created by John Lennon, a work not commonly known as there were just a handful of copies made as a present for his wife Yoko Ono.
John Lennon was there to supervise the final printing and while waiting for the results he killed time by making silly texts, doodles and drawings on any material on hand, like scraps of paper, pieces of cardboard, paper bags and even porcelain plates; encouraged by a third person who luckily happened to be at the right place at the right time.
A number of similar pieces made during this session were sold at succesful auctions in Tokyo (Bonham's, 1997) and London (Christie's, 2000 and 2002).
Further details available on request.
Plain white ceramic plate EMBELLISHED BY HAND in black feltpen by JOHN LENNON.
The text on the upper rim reads LISTEN TO THIS PLATE (a reference to the 1974 Walls and Bridges publicity campaign), the middle shows an original self caricature which has been signed JOHN LENNON 78.
PROVENANCE:
Executed in Rupert Jasen Smith (Andy Warhol's printer)'s studio, Soho, New York, 1978.
See the first of the Lennon items on this page, further details available on request.
NB: There were two similar plates in the collection, both were sold at Christie's London in April 2000.
The piece marked PLATE LOVE ended up in the Toronto Hard Rock Cafe, the whereabouts of FOOD FOR THE PEOPLE are unknown to us.
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Collection of previously unpublished texts and drawings, including Two Virgins and The Ballad of John and Yoko.
Printed in blue and black and issued in silver-lettered blue cloth with decorated dustjacket (design: Yoko Ono).
Poem in prose, hand printed by Alan Anderson (Tragara Press) in a limited edition of 160 copies, all SIGNED BY THOMAS LIGOTTI and initiator/published David Tibet, who provided the edition with a frontispiece.
Mint copy in fine custom made RED CLOTH-COVERED BOX with fine lettering on the spine, also holding the compact disc, featuring Ligotti reading the poem, accompanied by a musical setting composed and performed by Current 93's David Tibet.
Ligotti is "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction" [Washington Post].
Book of hours, consisting of over 80 pages, ca. 18,5 x 14 cm, with preprinted texts and elaborate pictorial borders in a fine Neo-Gothic style.
Both the text and the borders have been extremely delicately ILLUMINATED BY HAND in various colours, including gold and silver.
Handbound in an exclusive binding stamp-signed GRUEL (see below).
This fine prayer book was executed on occasion of the marriage of Juliette PÉAN and Tony SAINT CLAIR, in the Eglise La Madeleine, Paris, France, October 1892.
Illumination done by an anonymous but highly skillful artist.
NB: The marriage happened to be some sort of social event, as the Parisian periodical LA NOUVELLE REVUE had the following fashion report printed...:
“A la Madeleine, le 24, le mariage de Mlle Juliette Péan, fille du célèbre chirurgien docteur Péan, membre de l'Académie de médecine, avec M. Tony Saint-Clair, sous-lieutenant au 2t dragons, neveu de Mme la comtesse de Rancy, avait attiré foule nombreuse et très élégante. Mais ce courrier, déjà long, ne me permet guère d'énumérer toutes les toilettes que j'y ai notées pour les lectrices de la Nouvelle Revue. A la vérité, la mode, si variable qu'elle soit, dure cependant plus de quinze jours; je renverrai donc à ma prochaine causerie là description de quelques-unes d'entre elles."
As above.
The image shows the exquisite binding by Gruel, one of the most highly esteemed French bookbinder firms: full brown morocco with silk doublures and gilt inside dentelles, two finely engraved metal clasps, a large engraved metal monogramme in Art Nouveau style mounted on the front, all edges gilt and finely gauffered.
Stamp-signed in gold on the foot of the spine. Some minor faults.
Deluxe edition of the classic novel by Pierre Louys (1870-1925, author of Les Chansons de Bilitis and other works), issued in a limited edition of 609 copies, all with a photogravure of the painting EL PELELE (the Straw Manikin) by Francisco Goya as a frontispiece.
This one of 500 numbered copies on Papier Alfa, this copy finely bound in half morocco (signed Dupré), raised spine with richly gilt compartments, red morocco corner pieces, original wrappers bound in.
A superbly bound and superbly preserved book.
Good copy of one of Thomas Mann's lesser known works, with an EXTENSIVE SIGNED DEDICATION BY THOMAS MANN to Dutch author Jan Greshoff:
"An Jan Greshoff, in aufrichtiger Sympathie, froh ihm wieder begegnet zu sein, mit herzlichen Wünschen für ihn, für sein Haus und für Holland / New York, den 26. Nov. 1943 / Thomas Mann."
Dedication copies by Thomas Mann are rare, clearly legible dedications like this one, are even rarer!
NB: Thomas Mann (1875-1955), the foremost German novelist of the 20th century, moved to the USA in 1938, in 1944 he officially became a US citizen. Greshoff (1888-1971), prominent literary figure of the Dutch interbellum, spent much of his time in New York in the period between 1943 and 1945.
Good copy: spine slightly faded, small bump in the left hand upper corner of the front board.
“Bilderroman” with 83 woodcuts by Flemish expressionist artist Frans Masereel (1889-1972), introduction by HERMAN HESSE.
This copy superbly rebound by renown Swiss bookbinder Roland Meuter (Ascona): black morocco spine with titles in white, boards pasted over with paper finely marbled in black and white, black endpapers, wrappers preserved, in plain paper slipcase.
The 11th issue of the periodical Stroker, The Henry Miller Issue, printed in a limited edition of 500 copies, comprising an 8-page essay by Henry Miller, some other short texts and occasional facsimiles of Henry Miller (1891-1980)'s art.
Fine copy, with remark "Copy # 24 - Henry Miller" HANDWRITTEN by the author on the title page.
Contains a reprint of Robert Brown's article from HiLife magazine "Why don't they give Henry Miller the Nobel Prize?"
HENRY MILLER - Der Welt des Sexus - Reinbek, Rowohlt Verlag, 1960 - original cloth in slipcase - 1st German edition - 110 euro
Kurt Wagenseil's translation of The World of Sex by Henry Miller, originally issued in 1940, with a preface by Lawrence Durrell.
Very fine copy, in cardboard slipcase with printed title ticket, with a full page SIGNED DEDICATION by the author, reading:
This copy especially inscribed for Hein Kohn, with friendly greetings from Henry Miller, 9/1/61, Reinbek/Hamburg"
Hein Kohn was a German-born publisher and literary agent who worked in Holland from 1933 to well into the 1970's.
“Roman érotique” attributed to the French poet Alfred de Musset (first edition: 1833) published in 1920 in an edition of 110 copies by French artist Jean-Gabriel Daragnes, who embellished the work with 15 of his wood engravings.
This copy in a later but old style full burgundy morocco binding (Bayntun/Riviere, Bath, England), gilt spine with raised bands, original wrappers bound in.
NB: The authorship of Gamiani has long been attributed to Alfred Musset (1810-1857) and Georges Sand - the second part - but never proven. Through the years many illustrated editions have been published.
First paperback edition of the revised and expanded version of Yoko Ono's Grapefruit, a Book of Instructions, which was first published in Japan, 1964, in a limited edition of 500 copies.
This revised edition, first issued in 1970, contains a short but very appropriate introduction by John Lennon.
This copy SIGNED BY YOKO ONO and JOHN LENNON in blue and black felt tip pen on the first blank page.
These signatures were obtained during a short and hectic signing session at the Selfridge's department store, Oxford Street, London, July 1971.
First edition of this Rackham-illustrated edition of Goblin Market, a poem by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894, sister of Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti), first published in 1862.
The book contains a frontispiece and plates in colour by ARTHUR RACKHAM (1867-1939) as well as some text illustrations in black.
Clean and bright copy in very fine stiff paper wrappers showing a design by Rackham, with the rare - rather stained and damaged - dustjacket repeating the design.
First edition of one of the great but lesser known novels by Francoise Sagan (= Francoise Quoirez, 1935-2004).
A nice S.P. copy with a short, rather hastily SIGNED DEDICATION by the author: “á Guy / amicalement / Francoise Sagan”, in ballpoint pen on the halftitle.
NB: The author personally adapted her novel for the motion picture La Chamade (1968, English title: Heartbeat), starring Catherine Deneuve and Michel Piccoli.
“Light novel”, published in the series Collection Gauloise.
Between 1923 and 1933 Georges Simenon (1903-1989) made a living and practised his skills by writing “pulp fiction”, using various pseudonyms like Georges Sim, Jean du Perry, Gom Gut, George d’Isly, Christian Brulls, a.o.
This is a very fine unopened copy of one of the rarer of these titles.
Rather used copy with a fine FULL PAGE SIGNED STATEMENT BY GEORGES SIMENON concerning a meeting during a P.E.N. Club meeting, in pencil, dated Amsterdam, July 1958.
Folded card, issued by Unicef, preprinted with season’s greetings in 5 languages.
The card has been SIGNED GEORGES SIMENON 1988 in black felt-tipped pen in a rather shaky hand.
Sent from Lausanne, Switzerland, the city where the author died in September 1989.
(GEORGES SIMENON) Pierre Hebey - Album Simenon - Paris, Gallimard/Bibliotheque de la Pleiade, 2003 - gilt calf with transparent dustjacket in slipcase - 30 euro
Album nr. 42 issued in the the famous Bibliotheque de la Pleiade, finely illustrated and in perfect condition.
Limited deluxe edition of this collection of early poems and prose (Ha! Ha! Houdini, Witt, Babel. a.o.) and hitherto unpublished texts by the great PATTI SMITH, embellished with photographs by Robert MAPPLETHORPE, Judy Linn and others.
This special edition is limited to 150 copies only, all NUMBERED and SIGNED BY PATTI SMITH on the limitation page, in full black cloth lined along the fore-edges with speckled paper, lettering in silver on front and spine, in sturdy pictorial slipcase.
A close to mint copy (nr. 57) of this fine and rare book, not te be confused with the "regular" first hardback edition which came in cloth-backed boards and a similar dustjacket, without slipcase.
Reproduction of Andy Warhol's silkscreened portrait of American author Gertrude Stein, one of a series of images titled Ten Portraits Of Jews From The Twentieth Century, issued in 1980, comprising portraits of Stein, Kafka, Einstein, Freud, Buber and others,
This plate reproduces the silkscreen in offset lithography in reduced size (18 x 14 cm) and has been boldly SIGNED BY ANDY WARHOL in black feltpen.
Cover of the folder holding the announcements plus info page added and rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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Lyrics of a song by David Tibet, poet, artist and founder of Apocalytic Folk Outfit Current 93, handprinted by Alan Anderson (Tragara Press) in a limited edition of 200 copies, all SIGNED by David Tibet.
Added is a CD in handprinted wallet containing 3 versions of the song, which was first issued on the Current 93 album Nature Unveiled (1984).
Author’s statement:
It will be remarked by anyone familiar with Lautréamont's Les Chants de Maldoror how much my lyrics here rely on it, even down to almost identical lines. This was due to a chance meeting of my admiration for the novel with large quantities of amphetamine sulphate and vodka at a tender age.
DAVID TIBET/CURRENT 93 - Maldoror is Dead - London, Durtro, 2002 - CD in handprinted sleeve - 40 euro
As above.
Separate edition of the CD, issued in a limited edition of 333 numbered copies, in handprinted sleeve.
Mint, in original clear plastic wallet.
Handwritten lyrics for a traditional lullaby from the USA, calligraphed by David Tibet who recorded the song in 1995/96 with his band Current 93 and had it released on the album with the same name.
The full text was calligraphed in white ink on a single sheet of A4-sized black paper, titled and signed on the back, packed in a custom made hinged black cloth box, with titles blocked in white on front and spine.
N.B.: For a very short period only David Tibet (= David Michael Bunting, 1960) made works of art out of his lyrics, using his distinctive, curly, almost hypnotic handwriting, thus creating a number of weird and wonderful, close to illegible pieces....
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