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MAURIAC Claude
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Grasset, Paris 1968, 12x21cm, broché.
Reference : 8469
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"[BALLETS RUSSES] - DE BRUNOFFF, DIAGHILEV, APOLLINAIRE, COCTEU, BAKST, etc.
Reference : 53655
(1909)
Collection des plus beaux numéros de Comoedia illustré et des programmes consacrés au Ballets & Galas Russes depuis le début a Paris 1909-21. - [THE GREATEST REVOLUTION IN THE HISTORY OF THEATRE AND BALLET]
Paris, (1909-21). Folio. Silk over bevelled boards. Front board with a splendid large inset colour illustration (from ""The Firebird"" by Natalia Gontcharova). Binding sunned and with professionally restored spine. Corners a bit bumped. A bit of creasing to extremities of some leaves, as the size varies somewhat. A few loose leaves. Profusely illustrated in colour (some pochoir) and in black/white throughout. A very nice copy of this magnificent book. 4 pp., being title-page and note from the editors +1909: 2 pp. introduction + 1909 Saison Russe - Opera et Ballet: 10 pp., including a cover illustration by Bakst +1910: 3 pp. introduction + cover illustration of Comoedia Illustré no. 18 (June 15, 1910) with portrait of Catherine Gheltzer + Comoedia Illustré special issue - supplement to no. 18: 14 pp., including two cover illustrations by Bakst +1911: 2 pp. introduction + Programme Officiel des Ballets Russes. Théâtre du Châtelet. June 1911: the extra goldembellished transparent paper covers + 34 pp., including cover illustration by Bakst (Nijonsky in La Péri) and another eight illustrations by Bakst (costume designs for Narcisse and Dieu Bleu and stage design for Narcisse) + 10 pp. from the sixth season of the Ballets Russes at Chatelet, with costumes by Jean Cocteau + 10 pp. on ""Petrouchka"" and ""Schérezade"" + ""Le Carnaval"" + 1 leaf of text introducing ""Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien"": 12 pp. from Comoedia Illutré devoted to this, including a cover illustration by Bakst (showing Ida Rubinstein as St. Sebastien) +1912: 2 pp. introduction + Comoedia Illustré 7th season: 16 pp. devoted mainly to ""Dieu Bleu"" and ""Daphnis et Chloé"", including cover illustration by Bakst and a further five illustrations by Bakst (costume designs, decor and scene) + 5 pp. from Comoedia Illustré on ""Le Dieu Bleu"" + 1 p. being the illustrated cover for the June 1912 special issue of Comoedia Illusté, showing Karsavina and Bolm in Thamar (costumes by Bakst) + 8 pp. on ""Thamar"", ""Petrouchka"", and ""Scherezade"", including the 4 pp. spread on ""Scherezade"" that is laid in loose and which contains illustrations of Bakst's nine costumes + two covers mounted back-to-back from the special issue of the seventh season of the Ballets Russes, showing Bakst's illustration of Nijinsky in ""L'Après-Midi d'un Faune"" + 8 pp. on ""L'Apres Midi di Faune"" + 10 pp. from Comoedia Illustré on ""Le Carnaval"", ""Daphnis et Chloé"" + 2 pp. (""title-page"" for Ida Rubinstein in ""Hélène de Sparte"" and Salomé) + special issue on ""Hélène de Sparte"": 16 pp., including cover illustration by Bakst (of Ida Rubinsein as Helen) and a further five costume and scenic designs by Bakst + 6 pp. from Comoedia Illustré on Helen of Sparta + 4 pp. from Comoedia Illustré on Oscar Wilde's ""Salomé"" + 20 pp. including illustrations by Bakst for ""Boris Godounoff"", text on and illustrations for ""Jeux"", ""Sacre du Printemps"", ""Kowanchina"", and ""Daphnis et Chloé"" +1913: 2 pp. introduction + Eigth Season of Ballets Russes: 6 pp., including cover illustration of Schollar, Nijinsky, and Karsavina in ""Jeux"" by Valentine Gross + 1 p. (""title-page"" for Ida Rubinstein in ""La Pisanelle ou la Mort Parfumée"" with costumes by Bakst + Comoedia Illustré No. 18, June 1913: 17 pp., including cover illustration of Ida Rubinstein in ""La Pisanelle, in couture by Worth, decor by Bakst, etc. +1914: 2 pp. introduction + 28 pp. on the Ballets Russes 1914-season, including a full-page illustration of Kousnetzoff in costume by Bakst, , costume designs for ""La Légende de Joseph"" by Bakst, and a two-page costume-spread for ""Rossignol"" by Benois + 2 pp. on ""Le Rossignol"" by Maurice Ravel"" + 4 pp. from Ballets Russes on ""Le Coq d'Or"" + 2 pp. on ""Les Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilew"" by Calvocoressi + 1915: 1 p. introduction +1917: 1 p. introduction + the special issue of ""programme des Ballets Russes"", 1917: 26 pp., constituting THE MAY 1917 ""THÉATRE DU CHATELET"" SEPARATE PUBLICATION MAINLY DEVOTED TO JEAN COCTEAU'S GROUNDBREAKING BALLET ""PARADE"", INCLUDING APOLLINAIRE'S FAMOUS FOREWORD (COINING ""SURREALISM"") AND THE TWO FAMOUS COLOUR-ILLUSTRATIONS BY PICASSO +1919-20: 2 pp. introduction + 4 pp. of ""Les Ballets Russes a l'Opéra"", Jan-Feb. 1920 + Cover from the Comoedia Illustré special issue with costume designs for ""Tricorne"" by Picasso + the complete programme for the Ballets Russes 1919-1920: 32 pp., including drawings by Picasso, set and costume designs by Derain, and costume designs by Bakst + 1920: 2 pp. introduction + complete special issue for the ""Ballets Russes à l'Opéra"", May-June 1920: 10 pp., including cover design of costumes for ""L'Austice feminine"" and designs by Sert +1921: 2 pp. introduction + 20 pp. from Commoedia Illustré , including drawings of Strawinsky and Picasso and a 2-page spread of costume and scenic designs for ""Le Bouffon"" by Larionow. This is a stunning 380-page limited edition, compiled by the programme publishers of the Ballets Russes themselves, Maurice and Jacques de Brunoff.
Very rare limited original edition of this splendid production by the Brunoff-brothers, which constitutes a collection of the most important, most influential, and most beatiful parts of the original Ballets Russes-publications, together with explanatory forewords By V. Svetloff, written and printed for this collection. ALL THE PROGRAMMES ARE THE ORIGINAL PRINTINGS, collected and bound here in this special compilation, which presents a selection of extracts from the magazines, together with the souvenir programmes (that were published as supplements), arranged in chronological order. This work vividly documents the famous ballet company that premiered such groundbreking productions as Igor Stravinsky's Firebird, Petrushka, Rite of Spring, Parade, etc.Among the most important of all the publications present, is the magnificent May 1917 ""Théatre du Chatelet"" separate publication (mainly devoted to the ballet ""Parade""), which constitutes one of the most important publications in the history of modern art. It is here, in his presentation-article to ""Parade"" that Apollinaire coins the term ""surrealism"" and thus lays the foundation for the seminal cultural movement that Bréton came to lead. Furthermore, the ballet ""Parade"" represents a historical collaboration between several of the leading artistic minds of the early twentieth century: Erik Satie, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Léonide Massine, and Serge Diaghilev, and is especially famous, not only for its contents and its music, but also for its magnificent costumes designed by Picasso, the drawings of which are presented in the present publication for the first time - most famously the front cover for the ""Parade""-programme, which depicts the ""Costume de Chinois du ballet ""Parade""/ aquarelle de Picasso"", an etching with original, stunning pochoir-colouring (hand-painted by Picasso himself!).This one programme epitomizes the importance and infuence of the magnificent ""Comoedia Illustré"", of which all the most important contributions are collected here, in this one stunning volume. This amazing ballet monthly was published in Paris between 1908 and 1921. The special issues are generally speaking the most important ones, as they were often devoted to the annual Paris season of Serge Diaghilev's Balletes Russes and Ida Rubinstein's Galas Russes and document the amazing endeavours of these. These groundbreaking special issues (the May 1917 being merely an example), are geerally lavishly illustrated, usually in full colour, often heightened in gold, with costume and set designs and enriched with portraits of the leading singers and dancers in the ballets. The vast amount of colour illustrations throughout this collection includes contributions to the magnificent history of the Ballets Russes by such distinguished artists as Pablo Picasso and Léon Bakst. As the groundbreaking 1917 ballet ""Parade"" - the first of the modern ballets - originally presented for the first time in the present publication, marks Picasso's entry into the public and bourgeois institutions of ballet and theatre and presents Cubism on the stage for the first time, so Bakst's splendid costume and set designs depicted over numerous issues here for the first time presents the application of art nouveau design concepts to the stage. The present compilation of original publications presents an outright revolution in the history of art, theatre, and ballet on many levels.The introductory leaves to each year are almost all written by Svetloff (= Valerian Ivchenko), who was a famous Russian critic and the first biographer of Anna Pavlova.
Kjærlighed paa Nicolai Taarn eller Hvad siger Parterret. Heroisk Vaudeville i 1 Act. - [ANDERSEN'S THEATRE-DEBUT]
Kjøbenhavn, Reitzel, 1829. Small 8vo. Original blank wrappers.A few scattered brownspots, but a very good copy in completely original condition, as it was issued.
First edition of Hans Cristian Andersen's third publication in book form and his first dramatic work. This seminal publication marked his stage-debut and was not only the first work that he wrote for the theatre, but also the first of his works that was performed on the stage. It is with the present work, ""Love in Nicolai Tower"" that Hans Christian Andersen inaugurated his dramatical production, a genre that came to define much of his literary production for the next forty years, over the cause of which he produced about as many plays - i.e. ab. 40. The question as to acceptance from the theatre and the the set-up of the plays, however, -especially at the beginning of his career - would often postpone the actual theatre debut by many months, sometimes years. Thus, many of his early plays were only performed on the stage much later. ""Kjærlighed on Nicolai Taarn"", however, was accepted almost immediately and was performed already the following year, marking his theatre debut.
A Mr. D'Alembert...sur son Article Genève dans le VIIme. Volume de l'Encyclopédie et particulierement, sur le projet d'établir un Théatre de Comédie en cette Ville. - [THE PLACE OF ENTERTAINMENT IN SOCIETY]
Amsterdam, M.M.Rey, 1758. 8vo. Beautiful contemporary full mottled calf with five raised bands and gilt red leather title-label to richly gilt spine. All edges Minor loss to lower capital, but apart from that an absolutely beautiful copy, internally as well as externally. Very nice, clan and fresh. Printed on good paper, with good margins. Engraved title-vignette. XVIII, 264, (8) pp.
The rare first edition of this important work, which inaugurated one of the most significant intellectual debates of the 18th century.The letter is Rousseau's answer to the article on the city of Geneva, which his friend d'Alembert had written for the French ""Encyclopédie"". In the article, d'Alembert had suggested that the citizens of Geneva establish a theatre which - so d'Alembert - would lead to a refinement of the mores and ways of the Genevans, not to mention adding a bit of sparkle to a city which he described as dreary and sad. The response by Rousseau opened up what was one of the most important intellectual polemics of the 18th century.Rousseau, a citizen of Geneva by birth, uses the article by d'Alembert as a springboard for a reflection on the place of culture in society. He relates the institution of the theatre to the question of political morality and attempts to define boundaries between the morally innocuous and corruptive forms of entertainment. The letter is permeated by a pronounced Platonism. The arguments which Rousseau advances against the theatre closely recall those advanced by Plato in the Republic against the poets. As Plato, Rousseau focuses his attention on the artificial nature of the theatrical spectacle, which leads the mind astray, away from the concerns of an industrious and fulfilled life. For anybody with an interest in the work and life of Rousseau, the ""Lettre à d'Alembert"" is an invaluable document. Not only does it connect Rousseau's earlier writings - the Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (1750) and the Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality among Men (1754) - to his later major work"" it also offers an insight into the differences of opinion that would lead Rousseau to break with the circle around the encyclopaedists. The present edition is unknown to Dufour and Tchmerzine, but recent research has determined that this is the actual first printing (see for instance: Azers, ""Histoire de l'Impression et la publication de la ""Lettre à d'Alembert"""", Sénelier).
Hedda Gabler. Skuespil i fire akter. - [PMM 375 - REVOLUTION IN THE THEATRE]
København, 1890. Orig. komp. brunt helshirtbd. m. helt guldsnit. Lidt slitage v. kapitæler og hjørner. Lille svag plet på forperm. Gl. ejernavne og tilskrifter på forreste friblad. Indimellem lettere brunplettet, men et nydeligt eksemplar.
Originaludgaven af et et Ibsens internationalt mest berømmede værker, det norske bidrag til Printing and the Mind of Man: ""Ibsen's influence on the whole course of modern drama may be indicated by the inclusion of his plays in the repetoire of every Anvant-garde theatre of his day - the Théâtre Libre, Paris, 1887, Die Freie Bühne in Berlin, 1887, and The Independant Theatre in London, 1891-"" (Printing and the Mind of Man: 375).
Cyrano de Bergerac. Comédie héroïque en cinq actes en vers. Représentée à Paris, sur le Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, le 28 décembre 1897. 136e mille. - [""ONE OF THE CENTURY'S GREATEST SMASH HITS""]
Paris, 1898. 8vo. Contemporary half calf with five raised bands, gilt spine. Single gilt lines to boards. Capitals and corners worn. Inner hinges a bit weak. With Eugen Zabel's book plate to inside of front board, a postcard depicting Edmond Rostand's residense at Cambo, obviously posttamped on verso, pasted on to front free end-paper, contemporary newspaper-clipping about the numerous performances of ""Cyrano von Bergerac"" around the world pasted in to hinge of fly-leaf, where the presentation-inscription (for Eugène Zabel) is written, and finally, the original handwritten address in Rostand's hand, cut out from the envelope in which the book was sent to Zabel, is pased into hinge of half-title. Internally nice and clean.
First edition, 136th thousand (same year as the first), presentation-copy ""à M. Eugène Zabel/ très cordial envoi, -/ remerciement, -/ et sympathie./ Edmond Rostand/ Octobre 98"" of Rostand's masterpiece, which against all odds became one of the most popular plays of the century and an overnight success throughout Europe.At the end of the 19th century in France, as well as in the rest of Europe, the industrialization was the force that dominated almost all aspects of society, i.e. everything from politics and sociology to science, art, philosophy, etc. And thus, also literature and theatre in this period were products of this new power. This meant that the trend that became prevailing within literature and drama was that of realism, which in France soon developed into naturalism. In the midst of this all-encompassing emphasis on objective documentation of everyday life which rejected romance, idealization and dreaming of any kind, emerged suddenly a work that no one could believe would have any success whatsoever, but which against all odds became the hugest dramaturgical success of the period and a theatrical monument that has been remembered ever since and which still stands as thus: Rostand's ""Cyrano de Bergerac"", the unlikely play about romantic heroes, fairy-tale like maidens, medieval-inspired sword-fights, about poetry, love, and art. The play had been taken on already in 1897, when the manuscript was finished, but the directors of the theatre regretted their decision immediately, not least due to the public reaction to the ""outdated"" romantic comedy-drama, which nobody would want to go see, and thus they severely cut the budget so that Rostand had to pay for all the costumes himself. Even the actor playing the main part, a leading actor at the time, regretted having taken the part, and Rostand is reported to have apologized to him for involving him in this ""disastrous adventure"". ""Therefore, when the curtain rose on ""Cyrano de Bergerac"" for the first time on December 28, 1897, expectations were low. The audience, however, was about to be pleasantly surprised. From the hero's last first majestic entrance to his last farewell, he transfixed his viewers. Theatergoers cheered Cyrano's triumphs, sighed at his suffering, laughed at his witty wordplay, and cried as his fate became known. A full hour after the curtain fell, the audience was still applauding thunderously. It is not easy to explain why Rostand's play confounded everyone by becoming one of the century's greatest smash hits. Perhaps the answer lies in ""Cyrano de Bergerac's"" stark contrast to the grimly realistic plays of its day, which often focused on modern society's darkest problems. The figure of the swashbuckling Cyrano dueling his way across the stage and stunning his compatriots with his verbal cleverness took Paris by storm. In fact, many critics, both of Rostand's time and later, attributed the play's tremendous success to its romanticism, or emphasis on idealism and heroism."" (Glencoe Literature Library, Study Guide for Cyrano de Bergerac).The work immediately became a huge success and within a very short amount of time, it had been translated into almost all European languages and was performed at theatres throughout Europe.Eugen Zabel was a famous literary critic and author, who at the time of ""Cyrano de Bergerac"" was editor of the ""Nationalzeitung"". He was born in Königsberg in 1851 and died in Berlin in 1925. In his youth he wrote poems, and after his move to Berlin, he worked as a journalist, critic, and writer. He did a lot of work on Russian themes, both political, historical, topographical, and literary, and he became closely connected to the country. He was highly respected for his liiterary criticism and his opinions, though often controversial, played an important role in public opiniation.
