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Autograph working manuscript of a collection of essays and pensées entitled ‘La Marche du Jeu’.
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Autograph working manuscript of a collection of essays and pensées entitled ‘La Marche du Jeu’.

by FRICKER, Bernard.

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4to maquette, comprising a printed general title-page and dedication (to the author's father and Jean-Henry Lévesque), and 7 autograph manuscript essays, written on loose sheets on rectos only in blue pen, and heavily corrected in pen and pencil throughout; each part preserved in a hand-decorated chemise; the whole group in a folding painted chemise with the general title-page, and in a black card box, decorated in scraffito on the front with an image of Brahma, and with a chess-board in perspective on the rear (edges worn), the interior faces with a black and white typographic design.
An extraordinary, unique production, with seven long, unpublished observational essays by Fricker on the post-war Parisian art world, including long discussions of the work of Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, and Blaise Cendrars; assembled in hand-decorated chemises and a folding box designed by his sister Jeanine Fricker, one of the leading lights of modern French… Read More
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A collection of five Christmas Poems

A collection of five Christmas Poems: 1953, 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1963, all in the issues printed for distribution by Frost himself.

by FROST, Robert

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Five works, various formats; in uniformly excellent condition.One more Brevity. New York, Spiral Press, 1953. Pp [12]; illustrations byPhilip Grushkin; small stain to one page, else very good, stapled in theoriginal wrappers, booklabel of D. G. Bridson, inscribed 'To GeoffreyBridson from Robert Frost after the pleasantest sort of encounter Dec13 1956', namely the recording they made together – see Prospero andAriel pp. 214-5). Crane B25 (one of 587 printed for distribution by Frost).A-wishing Well. New York, Spiral Press, 1959. Pp. [12]; illustrations byThomas W. Nason; fine, stapled in the original wrappers, booklabel of D.G. Bridson. Crane B31 (one of 670 printed for distribution by Frost).Accidentally on Purpose. New York, Spiral Press, 1960. Pp. [10]; fine,stapled in the original wrappers, booklabel of D. G. Bridson. Crane B32(one of 700 printed for distribution by Frost).The Wood-pile. New York, Spiral Press, 1961. Pp. [10]; cover andillustrations by Thomas W. Nason; fine, stapled in the… Read More
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An Historicall Collection of the continuall Factions, Tumults, and Massacres of the Romans and...
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4to, pp. [16], '20' [i.e.
209], [7], with the initial and medial blanks *1 and A4 (often wanting); early inscription to title-page sometime obscured, title-page slightly toned; withal, a fine crisp copy in contemporary limp vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, original ties (lower tie partly lacking); contemporary annotation to a rear endpaper concerning 'the divers and disagring (sic) opinions of histographers'.
First edition. Fulbecke's Historicall Collection
'was a narrative history of the last years of the Roman republic and it is significant as one of the very few attempts by a Renaissance Englishman to write such a work … An interesting attempt to weave together such often-contradictory sources as Sallust, Dio Cassius, and Lucius Florus, the work features an extended consideration of the rebellion of the turbulent nobleman Catiline' (ODNB).
This section was undoubtedly included as a reference to the Earl of Essex, for whom contemporary comparisons to Catiline are practically a… Read More
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