Search Results: Titles starting with J from Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts

¶ First typographical edition of the first 'Jane Eyre' in Urdu; one of 1000 copies. Inscribed by the publisher Amar Shahid.

First edition, published simultaneously in French (as here) and in Flemish (Dutch); including correspondence with Patti Smith, in English, about her participation in Rimbaud's sesquicentenary 2004, and a reproduction of her portrait "St. Rimbaud 1973", pages 80–[91]. Inscribed "To Marshal Pierce" and signed "Patti Smith | NYC" on the title-page (page 3). Marshal Lawrence Pierce (b. 1961) published the fictional Lost diaries of Jim Morrison 2003. -- Spine title: Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891): Une saison en enfer. Cover title: Passeport. -- References: OCLC 799201252 &c. Not in Byler-Mills!

First edition, published simultaneously in Flemish (as here) and in French; including correspondence with Patti Smith, in English, about her participation in Rimbaud's sesquicentenary 2004, and a reproduction of her portrait "St. Rimbaud 1973", pages 80-[91]. Inscribed "To Marshal Pierce" and signed "Patti Smith | X" on the title-page (page 3). Marshal Lawrence Pierce (b. 1961) published the fictional Lost diaries of Jim Morrison 2003. -- Spine title: Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891): Une saison en enfer. Cover title: Paspoort. -- References: Byler-Mills b1194710; OCLC 57149177.

Lyon: La Manufacture, 1985     ¶ ONLY EDITION of an interesting hommage to Jean-Paul Vaillant (1897-1970), "le sourcier de l'Ardenne", founder of the journal La grive 1928-73 and a leading figure in Rimbaud studies; including a biographical Portrait (pages [13]-64) by his son Philippe, a checklist of Levaillant's series Les cahiers ardennais 1928-84 (65-67), selected reprints from La grive ([72-135]), and a detailed index of the journal 1928-73 (137-83).  This is a PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED to the dialect-writer Jean-Pol Cordier, "le sourcier de nos langues", on Rimbaud's birthday 20 October 1985. Scarce.  (Series: Les classiques ardennais, [no. 5].)   ||| Cover title: Jean-Paul Vaillant et la revue La grive.  Collation: In 8s (220 x 159 mm): 94 leaves, paginated [1-10] 11-68 [69-136] 137-183 [184-188].  Illustration: Portraits, numerous facsimiles. … Read More

Oxford: Oxford university press, 1963 ¶ FIRST EDITION. 'A study of J. Colet's copy of the Epistolae of Marsilio Ficino, including the original text with a translation of Colet's marginalia and of some correspondence between the two' (LC), together with a Bibliography of John Colet, pages [149]-159. ||| Collation: In 8s (246 x 186 mm): 92 leaves, paginated [i-ii blank] [iii-xii], [1-3] 4-172. Halftone frontispiece (two portraits), five halftone plates (seven figures on three leaves, mostly printed recto and verso). Binding: Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt. References: LCCN 63005309; OCLC 900390. Condition: Ex library. .

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina press, 1986 -- First printing. Three facsimiles. LCCN 86-004285//r87.. First Edition. Red cloth, dust-jacket. A fine copy.. 228 x 152 mm. Pp. xii, [1], 303.

Buenos Aires: Casa Pardo S.A., 1973   ¶ ONLY EDITION of the best bibliography to date, based upon the author's own collection. Out of print.   ||| Collation: In 8s (264 x 178 mm): Pp. 245. Numerous facsimiles.  Binding: Printed wrappers.  Provenance: (1) Jose Gilardoni, whose own outstanding Borges collection was exhibited at Buenos Aires in 1985 (Borges himself attended the opening) and sold by Sotheby's (New York), 24 September 1986, lot 131, for $47,300; given to (2) the present owner (inscription), 6 May 1986. A printed bookmark promoting the Buenos Aires exhibition is laid in.  Condition: Near fine.   ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below. .

New York, 1993     ¶ Only edition of this extraordinary catalogue, lavishly illustrated throughout; including "many excellent examples of rare crystal pendulum figural mystery clocks, as well as a good number of bronze and spelter conical pendulum clocks. Among the many industrial clocks in the collection are rare and unusual models of many different sizes, including lighthouses, windmills, locomotives, boilers and nautical and aero-nautical items. The collection is further enhanced by some fine decorative French clocks; unusual English skeleton clocks; table, longcase and mystery clocks; and a variety of American shelf and wall clocks." (Page 9.)  500 lots, printed estimates.  (Sotheby's sale 6447, 28 June 1993.)   ||| Collation: 270 x 210 mm: Eighty-six leaves, paginated [1-7] 8-163 [164-172].  Illustration: Numerous color and black-and-white illustrations throughout.  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers. … Read More

Paris: NRF / Gallimard, 1945     ¶ Wartime diary of a young French girl aged 12-16, written for her father who was stranded in New York for the duration; INSCRIBED to a longtime friend of her father's, "Pour Béatrice Leval, qui maintenant n'est plus seulement l'amie de Papa, mais aussi la nôtre. Avec toute l'affection de Martine." (Beatrice Leval, of New York, was also a close friend of Jacques Schiffrin, who had founded the Éditions de la Pléiade in 1925 and who was then 'eliminated' from the cultural life of Paris in 1940; he emigated to New York, where he founded Pantheon Books in 1942 and published an English version of this Journal -- by Rimbaud's translator Louise Varèse -- in 1946.)   ||| Collation: In 8s (185 x 117 mm): 142 leaves, paginated [1-7] 8-281 [282-284].  Binding: Half green calf lettered in gilt, patterned boards and endpapers, top-edges gilt, others untrimmed, preserving the original… Read More

Paris: Librairie Vanier, 1886   ¶ FIRST EDITION of Verlaine's biographical sketch of Barbey d'Aurevilly, novelist and critic, the author of Les diaboliques (1874) and other light classics. Verlaine's essay is enlivened here by a wonderful full-page caricature of Barbey striking an imperious pose as he jabs his palm with his own pen, perhaps a hint of his extreme Catholicism. His foppish boots sprout needlelike spurs; and the names of his books spill out from a tipped bottle of 'encre du lion'. (The latter recalls the use of the word 'lion' in French as near-synonym for the word 'dandy', eg in Baudelaire "Le peintre de la vie moderne" ix: "Que ces hommes se fassent nommer raffinés, incroyables, beaux, lions ou dandies, tous sont issus d'une même origine". For this suggestion we are indebted to Mr David Cocksey of the University of Sheffield.)  (Series: Les hommes d'aujourd'hui, no. 282.)   ¶ It was Barbey, incidentally,… Read More