Lot n° 455
Estimation :
300 - 400
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 375EUR
BERNARD (Tristan).
A Peaceful Husband. Roman.... - Lot 455 - Ader
BERNARD (Tristan).
A Peaceful Husband. Roman.
Paris : Édition de la Revue Blanche, [1901]. - In-18, 187 x 118: (4 ff. first blank), 303 pp. (2 ff. last blank), printed cover. Half burgundy long-grained morocco, spine gilt, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (modern binding).
Patrick Fréchet, Bibliographie des éditions de la Revue Blanche, n° 106.
First edition of this novel dedicated to Lucien Guitry
.
One of the copies of the current edition, enriched with this very nice letter from the author addressed to the Mendès couple :
To Catulle Mendès // and to Madame Catulle Mendès // Hommage cordial, admiratif et jaloux // d'un poète lyrique raté // Tristan BernardGood
copy, very well preserved in spite of the slightly faded spine
.
We join, by the same author :
- Memoirs of a young man in order. Paris : Modern-Bibliothèque, Arthème Fayard, [1905]. - In-8, half red cloth, smooth spine, untrimmed, cover preserved (period binding).
New edition illustrated with full-page and in-text black compositions after watercolours by Hermann-Paul.
Envoi from the author on the false title addressed to the writer and playwright Robert de Machiels (1880-1965) :
To Robert de Machiels // friendly and confraternal memory // of an old man - alas more and more tidy, // Tristan Bernard-
Les Veillées du Chauffeur. Tales, essays, travelogues. Paris : Société d'éditions littéraires et artistiques, Librairie Paul Ollendorff, 1909. - In-18, 181 x 117 : (2 ff.), II, 344 pp. and (1 blank f.), illustrated cover. Half tan basane, spine ribbed, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (later binding).
First edition. The cover is illustrated with a colour composition by GIB.
A copy of the current edition, including this dedication by the author on the false title:
To Lugné and Suzanne, // their friend // Tristan
Bernard is the
actor, director and founder-director of the Théâtre de l'Œuvre Lugné-Poë (1869-1940) and his wife, the actress and resident of the Comédie-Française Suzanne Després (1875-1951
).
Tristan Bernard will have two of his first plays performed at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, Les Pieds nickelés on March 15, 1895 and Le Fardeau de la liberté on May 15, 1897.
copy enriched with a postcard mounted on a tab, featuring a portrait of Tristan Bernard from the "Collection artistique du vin Desiles"
.
Spine faded and rubbed. Restorations to the cover.
Provenance: Lugné Poë and Suzanne Després, with a letter from the author.
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