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First edition. Université de Paris, Paris, 1936. Uncut edition in Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Softcover with glassine wrap on front cover and light edgewear, No. 25 of 230 copies. With original lithograph in violet on tissue by Cournault. Tear on page 29, faint water stains to inside back cover and edges. First published Collection of Poems by René Daumal (1908-1944) visionary French poet-philosopher spiritual para-surrealilst writer and poet. Awarded Jacques Doucet Prize on 9 July 1935 by Literary Committee of Friends of the Doucet Library composed of Julien Benda, André Gide, Jean Gireaudoux, Adrienne Monnier, Jean Paulhan, André Saurés, Paul Valéry.Inscribed by Barbara Church "to Monique" Noel 1936.

De Blegny, Etienne,Very Rare original edition of L'Ortografe françoise. Paris: G. André, 1667, 155 pp., elegantly rebound in green leather with gilt titles and gilt decoration to spine; top edge gilt, slight bumping to corners. First book published by Writing Master and Calligrapher Etienne de Blégny. a member of the guild of maîtres écrivains. This early pedagogical work is a treatise on French orthography. Notation inside front cover suggests this volume is from library of Augustin de Backer (1809-1873), Belgian Jesuit and renowned bibliographer.

2 volume 1951 3rd Spanish edition of Miguel de Unamuno Essays. Leatherbound with gilt tooling and lettering. Volume 1 Prologue and notes by Bernardo G de Candamo, 2 portraits, 1073 pp. Volume 2, 1240, pp. With an epistolary anthology commented by Bernardo G de Candamo, 2 plates.

Well-preserved rare copy of Twice a Year, Number Two, Spring Summer 1939, Biennial Journal published in 1939 by Dorothy Norman, social activist, photographer and devotee of Alfred Stieglitz, with works by Proust, William Carlos Williams, John Marin, James Laughlin. Very little wear. Some fraying to corners of spine. Sunning to strip on top cover edge. binding tight. Interior immaculate. 247 pp.

Twice a Year, nO. 1, Fall-Winter 1938, Very well-preserved copy of Biennial Journal published by Dorothy Norman, social activist, photographer and devotee of Alfred Stieglitz, with works by by Rilke, Bourne, Dreiser, Silone, Anais Nin, Olson and photographs by Alfred Stieglitz.Shelfwear to corners of spine and cover. Binding tight. Immaculate interior.

Very good First Edition / First Printing hardcover copy of Autobiography of American Songwriter and Classical Composer Vernon Duke (1903-1969). A Russian emigré whose songwriting talents were encouraged by George Gershwin, he was also a gifted composer of Concertos, Syphonies and Ballets. In 1924 he moved to Paris, where, as Vladimir Dukelsky, he wrote music for Serge Diaghilev's renowned Ballet Russes. His First Symphony (1928) was premiered by Koussevitsky. He was a close friend of Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev as well as Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, George Balanchine, and Coco Chanel. He frequently visited London, where, as Vernon Duke, he contributed songs to British musical comedies. No dust jacket. No wear to cover or binding. Interior clean and bright.