"KENTON, MAXWELL [pseud., recte: TERRY SOUTHERN AND MASON HOFFENBERG].
Reference : 46276
(1958)
Paris, The Olympia Press, (1958). Original printed green wrappers. Green border on title-page. Spine a bit worn, with minor loss of upper layer of paper to hinges and capitals. Light wear to extremities. Lower corner of front wrapper slightly bent. Internally nice and clean.
The scarce first edition, first issue (Traveler's Companion Series, number 64, printed October 1958, with the Francs 1.200 to back wrapper, not overstamped. - N.B. the 1.200 has been crossed out by hand, with a pen, but it is NOT stamped over) of Southern and Hoffenberg's greatly scandalous novel, which was confiscated by the Brigade Mondaine (i.e. ""La Brigade de répression du proxénétisme"" (BRP)) and officially banned in France. ""Candy"" not only caused an inevitable furor for its vulgar take on contemporary culture, but brought about landmark changes in how the First Amendment applied to erotic literature. The work, which constitutes the unison of three greatly provocative and time-changing minds (Southern, Hoffenberg, and Girodias), quickly gained classic status and is now one of the most famous ""Beat""-novels. It was famously made into an all-star film (starring Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, James Coburn, Charles Aznavour, John Huston, Ringo Starr, Walter Matthau, John Astin, and Ewa Aulin) by Christian Marquand in 1968, and in 2006 Playboy Magazine listed it among the ""25 Sexiest Novels Ever Written"", describing the story as a ""young heroine's picaresque travels, a kind of sexual pinball machine that lights up academia, gardeners, the medical profession, mystics and bohemians.""The work was published pseudonymously by Maurice Girodias, owner of the scandalous ""Olympia Press"", in October of 1958. Almost immediately noticed by the BRP, who seized copies of it in the Paris bookshops, ""Candy"" was officially banned in France in May of 1959 (under a statute called the ""1939 Decree"", an amendment to the law of 1881, which gave the French government more power to ban offensive publications in foreign languages).In December of 1958, Maurice Girodias changed the title of ""Candy"" and reissued it as ""Lollipop"" in order to fool sensors and sell the remaining copies of the work. This supposedly work quite well and many copies of the book survived thus, leaving the first edition with the original title quite a scarcity, both in the first (not-overstamped) issue and the second issue. Later on, ""Candy"" was published in North America, by Putnam, under the authors' own names, those being Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg. In an interview, Terry Southern explains the origin of the pseudonym as thus: ""Yeah. And the name of the author was Maxwell Kenton. A name I first used with David Burnett, of all people. He was the son of Martha Foley and Whit Burnett of The Best American Short Stories fame. We were collaborating on some short detective stuff, and even sold a couple to Argosy Magazine, and we used the pseudonym 'Maxwell Kenton'. So when Mason at one point had an attack of conscience and said, ""Man, I've decided I don't want my mother to know about this book,"" we took the name Maxwell Kenton so his mother would be spared anguish at her Mah-Jong parties."" (Smoke Signals).Terry Southern, though mostly famous for his bestseller ""Candy"", which greatly influenced popular culture of the 1960'ies, was known for a lot of things, including writing much of the film dialogue of the landmark films ""Dr. Strangelove"" and ""Easy Rider"". In his ""The Candy Men. The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel ""Candy"""", Nile Southern tells the story of the book, the men behind it, and the furor that it caused: ""When I was in grade school in 1967, one of my six-year-old classmates, Daisy Friedman (now a writer), turned to me and said, ""Your father is a dirty old man!"" I asked how she knew that, and she said, ""He wrote a book called ""Candy"" - and it's a dirty, dirty book!"" Again, I asked how she knew all this, and she said, ""Because my parents told me - they have it on their bookshelf."" Not knowing what a ""dirty old man"" was, I came away with the impression that whatever my father was, he was a great Upsetter. I would later learn that young, literate New Yorkers had no issue about having a copy of ""Candy"" in their libraries, but this was certainly not the case across the country - censorship and prudishness were in fact still alive and well, not only in the United States but abroad.I first got the idea for ""The Candy Men"" after reading a letter in Terry's files from a British barrister advising how (even in 1968) the only way ""Candy"" could appear in England would be to undergo a ""pornectomy"" - eliminating about eighty instances of what was considered ""indecency,"" which the barrister had handily indexed in a kind of blueprint for the operation. The assessment featured page after page of cryptic references to offending words and passages to be excised or modified: Page 60 line 7 ""COME"" amend to ""come to you"" without capitals"" Line 15 ""jack-off"" amend to ""liberate"""" Page 93 line 2 ""exactly like an erection."" Delete.(...)There were three men responsible for bringing the erotic fantasy Candy to fruition - and they could not have been more different. The first, Maurice Girodias, was Europe's most infamous publisher and indefatigable survivalist. Girodias put out otherwise unpublishable works of (mostly) erotic literature in English when the English-speaking world needed them most: Lolita, Naked Lunch, Henry Miller's The Tropics, the Marquis de Sade. As Girodias wrote of himself, ""The connecting link is clear enough: anything that shocks because it comes before its time, anything that is liable to be banned by the censors because they cannot accept its honesty."" Girodias was also a seasoned gambler. ""A day out of court is a day wasted,"" he used to quip.Mason Hoffenberg, the second of the three, was one of the smartest, hippest, most undisciplined poets on the scene - whether it be Joe's Dinette, the Riviera bar in the Village, or the Old Navy on the Left Bank of Paris. A ""permanently kicking junkie"" as William Burroughs once described him, Mason the writer never really got started - though Terry, his best friend, described him as a ""Nobel Prize-type genius.""And Terry Southern, a writer with a destiny and a killer ear for dialogue. Terry's mandate was to take things as far out as they could go - with absolute credibility. A prose stylist gone Hollywood - his Texan, Irish, and Native American roots made him Trickster and Taurus bull - oblivious to the rules of the Game.""
CHICAGO,CURT TEICH, 24 : 31 cm.Original Wraps. Good +. Oblong 4to. ca 1910. 25 color illustrations tipped in. Route map, 2pp descriptive text.(4) (title, description of plates, map), [24] mounted colored plates, (1 folding panorama); exterior and Interior is clean & tight. Includes the magnificent double page fold-out photo of "Moonlight Over the Salton Sea".
Advertisement booklet for the Southern Pacific Railroad, showing views from El Paso, Texas to Los Angeles, CA. Contains twenty-five tipped in illustrations. album tres frais
Me CORQUODALE & CO. 1937. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 1 grille de prix de la société Southern Railway, dépliant. Ouvrage en anglais. Tampon sur la première page.. . . . Classification : 1700-Documents Divers
N° 18C. Service of principal trains and fares between London and whitstable 1 Tankerton, Chestfield 1 swalecliffe Halt, Herne Bay Birchington, Westgate, margate, Broadstairs, Dumpton, Park and Ramsgate. Classification : 1700-Documents Divers
San Francisco Southern Pacific San Francisco Southern Pacific Company SD (vers 1960), In-4 broché, couverture illustrée en couleurs par Maurice LOGAN, 46 photos à pleines pages prises le loge de la SHASTA ROUTE qui va de SAN FRANCISCO à SEATTLE. Bon état.
Toutes les expéditions sont faites en suivi au-dessus de 25 euros. Expédition quotidienne pour les envois simples, suivis, recommandés ou Colissimo.
San Francisco Southern Pacific San Francisco Southern Pacific Company SD (vers 1960), In-4 broché, couverture illustrée en couleurs par Maurice LOGAN, 62 photos à pleines pages prises en CALIFORNIE. Bon état.
Toutes les expéditions sont faites en suivi au-dessus de 25 euros. Expédition quotidienne pour les envois simples, suivis, recommandés ou Colissimo.
Mourgues Marcelle & G.Southern-Holt Mary
Reference : R100054982
(1983)
ISBN : 2862760641
Jeanne Laffitte. 1983. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 219 pages - couverture contrepliée - nombreuses illustrations, figures, phrases musicales en noir et blanc dans et hors texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 793.3-Danse
"Diagrammes Jean-Guilhem Prax d'après les dessins de M.G.Southern-Holt - Collection ""inventaires"". Classification Dewey : 793.3-Danse"
SOUTHERN Thomas (& HAMELIUS P., ed. with introduction and notes)
Reference : T33437
(1911)
Liège/Paris, Vaillant-Carmanne/Champion 1911 131pp., in the series "Bibliothèque de la Faculté de philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège" fasc.20, [texts in english], back repaired, G
"Bablet Albert Allio Bosson Canac Dort Duvignaud Francastel Gussmann Horowicz Kolbe Kouril Kumbatovic Lunari Marrey Mielziner Monnet Mourier Nelson Piscator Polieri Ruhnau Sonrel Southern Unruh Vilar Villiers Voisin"
Reference : 19535
(1978)
"1978. Paris Éditions du CNRS « Le Choeur des Muses » 1978 2ème ed. - Cartonné bien complet du rhodoïd 21 5 cm x 27 5 cm 248 pages XXXIX planches avec photos plans et ills noir & blanc in et hors-texte -Etudes de Albert Allio Bablet Bosson Canac Dort Duvignaud Francastel Gussmann Horowicz Kolbe Kouril Kumbatovic Lunari Marrey Mielziner Monnet Mourier Nelson Piscator Polieri Ruhnau Sonrel Southern Unruh Vilar Villiers Voisin réunies par Denis Bablet et Jean Jacquot avec la collaboration de Marcel Oddon - Manques sur la jaquette sinon très bon état"
London, Waterlow & Sons, sans date ( ca 1930 ), plaquette agrafée format 215x140mm, 80 pages + 1 carte dépliante, quelques photographies in et hors-texte, agrafes oxydées sinon bon exemplaire.
Edition en langue anglaise.
paris Robert Laffont 1968 1 Un volume broché de format in 8° de 248 pp.; couverture à rabats.
Dos légèrement insolé; sinon bn état. Voir photo.
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Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1966 xvi + 389pp., 23cm., publisher's hardcover, dustwrapper, text clean and bright, very good condition, H98498
Paris : Flammarion (« Nouvelle Bibliothèque Scientifique »), 1987. in-8°, 314 pages, broche, couverture illustree.
Tres bel exemplaire. [NV-15]
Oxford 1970 Harper & Row Hardcover 1st Edition
Medieval Humanism and Other Studies hard cover, 220 x 145 mm, 261 pg, in good condition,
London, 1998, in-8, 284pp, Reliure éditeur, Très bel exemplaire! 284pp
Walter Scott. 1891. In-8. Relié. Etat passable, Coins frottés, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 260 pages. Quelques rousseurs. Ancien ouvrage de bibliothèque: , tampons, annotations à l'encre. Quelques mouillures, n'altérant pas la lecture. Titre, éditeur et auteur en doré au dos. Filets noirs au dos. Texte en anglais.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Uppsala, Joh. Edman, 1788-93. 8vo. Indbundet i 4 ensartede, smukke og velbevarede samtidige hldrbd. Rygforgyldning og med forgyldte titeletiketter i skind på rygge. (26),389,(1)(32),384"(14),414,(30),341 pp. Kobberstukket vignet (Goda Hoppet Udda) samt 10 kobberstukne plancher (hvoraf 2 udfoldelige). Med alle 4 halvtitelblade, som dog er indsatte. Trykt på skrivepapir og indvendig meget rene.
First edition, in a very fine copy, of Thunberg's account of his famous naturalist and ethnographical travels in Europa, Asia and Africa. Thunberg is sometimes called ""the father of South African botany"" and ""the Japanese Linnaeus"". In the first two volumes he vividly decribes the botanical and ethnographical features of South Africa around the Cape.""Thunberg’s description of his great voyage, published in four parts in Swedish in 1788-1793 and soon translated into English as Travels in Europe, Africa and Asia (1793-1795), as well as in French and German, contains material of great ethnographical interest."" (DSB).
"" "A5341 TIRAGE DE 1987 BROCHE"
(Oxford), Blackwell, (1995). Orig. boards with dustjacket. XX,330 pp.
ROBERT LAFFONT .. 1969.. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 247 pages. Couverture rempliée. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
Roman traduit de l'anglais par Georges Virieu. Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
EDITIONS LIVRE DE POCHE N° 2840. 1971. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 186 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
Traduction de Georges Virieu. Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
FABER AND FABER. 1973. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 311 pages. Premier plat illustré en couleurs. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc dans le texte. Texte en anglais. Couverture plastifiée.. . . . Classification Dewey : 792-Théâtre
Classification Dewey : 792-Théâtre