Bruxelles: Les Auteurs Associés. [1943]. First. 12mo. 65 pp. Illustrated with 19 b/w reproductions including one on the cover. Warmly inscribed in blue ink by Magritte on the half title to the publishers of the work "felicite les Établissements generaux d'Imprimerie pour leur beau travai,l" congratulating the printers (as recorded at the end of the volume, the "Établissements Généraux d’Imprimerie") "for their fine work,"dated 15/12/1943 and surrounding his signature with a small geometric drawing. Ref: Mariën, Surr. in Belgium, p. 333. Scattered foxing and toning, overall a fine copy. Read More...
A green glass posy holder with the etched inscription "To Oscar Love Bosie" and measuring approximately 1 x 7 cm. Small crack to rear lip of the glass, else fine. Read More...
London: Duckworth. 1940. First. Signed copy of Lord Douglas's final book on the Irish playwright and author, inscribed on front free endpaper to cricket broadcaster John Arlott (1914–1991) and dated February 1943. Inscription is faded but signature remains bold. Purple cloth in dust jacket. 143 pp. Frontis portrait of Wilde, portrait of Lord Alfred Douglas, from the drawing by Walter Spindler; facsimile of letter written to Douglas from Wilde in 1897. Foxing throughout, wear and some small tears and edge losses to dust jacket, else fine. Read More...
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[Literature & Art]
Picabia, Francis. (1879 - 1953). "Celui qui devient un grand homme n'est plus un homme" - Autograph Aphorism
An intriguing autograph aphorism, ca. 1920, by the Dadaist painter and poet. 1 pp. 8vo (8.25 x 10.5 inches; 21 x 27 cm). Ink on paper. In French, "Celui qui devient un grand homme n'est plus un homme" ("He who becomes a great man is no longer a man"). Rare. Read More...
Wooden chair of cross-back form, with painted floral decorations to the back, arms, and legs, ca. 1930, owned and used by the Pulitzer-Prize winning American Modernist poet. Formerly displayed in the now closed Wallace Stevens Room at Fort Andross in Brunswick, Maine and acquired directly from the Curator, Alison Johnson, Author of Wallace Stevens: A Dual Life as Poet and Insurance Executive and Producer/Director/Writer of The World of Wallace Stevens. Stevens's grandson, Peter "Zeke" Hanchak, has noted that Wallace Stevens kept his small secretary and this chair in his sitting room in CT, which was to the right at the top of the stairway. That secretary, which now resides in the Poetry Room at Harvard, has floral paintings on it that are very similar to the ones on the present chair.
Exceptional gelatin silver print by American artist and writer Michael McKenzie, who has captured the legendary American fashion designer and novelist looking debonaire-as-ever while posed at an office desk, ca. 1980. Signed and inscribed along the lower left margin by Capote, "for Halston / much love / Truman", and by McKenzie, "For Halston - Who IS Fashion", who has also signed and dated "McKenzie '80" to lower right. In fine condition. Unmatted, set in an acrylic box frame; 11.6 x 17.15 inches (29.5 x 43.5 cm.). Read More...