Henry petiot (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Good dj. First American Edition. [light external soiling and a bit of wear to extremities; jacket has several small chips along top and bottom edges, browned at spine, several tears that are internally tape-repaired]. Novel about a young man and his travails as part of that generation in France who came of age in the decade following World War I -- a "generation which, not old enough by a few years to have taken part in the War, suffered all the spiritual, mental and moral strain of that time." The New York Times critic was unimpressed, likening its protagonist to Julien Sorel (of "The Red and the Black"), deriding him as "one of those thin, dark-eyed, sensitive young men who have been the recurrent concern of French novelists since Stendahl." The book itself, he stated, was "hesitant and groping. There is no plot. There are merely a series of incidents, [which] all go to show the culmination of doubt and spiritual distress in his heart." This was the author's first novel, published in France in 1928 as "L'âme obscure" (which translates as "The Dark Soul"); he had begun his literary career with a 1926 essay entitled "Notre inquià tude" ("Our Anxiety"), which took as its theme "humanity's loss of meaning and direction in an increasingly industrialized and mechanized world" (Wikipedia). Raised a Roman Catholic, he had returned to the religion after a period of agnosticism in the 1920s, and from the early 1930s onward most of his writings concerned Catholicism.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 327 p., 23 cm French.

Broché. 1 volume In-12 184 pp Couverture souple à rabats imprimée couleurs. Non rogné. Une carte dépliante in-fine (4 noms de villes soulignées à l'encre rouge). Bel exemplaire ÉDITION ORIGINALE. Un des 400 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin d'Annonay, dernier grand papier.

Brossura. Zustand: discrete. 16°,pg.136. In appendice "Il mondo dell'Islam". Raccolta di saggi tratti da "La Chiesa, l'Occidente, il mondo" pubblicato nella serie "Recherches et Débats" dal "Centro Cattolico degli Intellettuali". 200 gr.

Couverture rigide. Zustand: Bon état. In-8 21 x 14 cm. Reliure pleine peau maroquinée bordeaux, étui bordé à l'identique, dos à nerfs, tête dorée, 433 pp. Bon exemplaire. Exemplaire enrichi d'un envoi de l'auteur.

No Binding. Zustand: Good. Daniel-Rops. Lettre autographe signee, 1948 Ecrivain et historien francais Lettre autographe signee de Daniel-Rops, datee du 24 mars 1948, redigee a l'encre bleue sur un feuillet de papier velin filigrane tres fin. Dimensions : 20,8 x 26,9 cm Nombre de pages : 1 page Daniel-Rops Henry Petiot, dit Daniel-Rops, ne le 19 janvier 1901 a Epinal et mort le 27 juillet 1965 a Tresserve, est un ecrivain et historien francais. Membre de l'Academie francaise de 1955 a sa mort. Signed by author or artist.…

0. Anvers, éditions Sélection, 1925, in-8°, original issue as published, ca. 110 pp, sewn, original wrapper ( woodcut design by Gustave De Smet). Original wrapper a bit dustsoiled, spine damaged and neatly restored with adhesive tape, margins of wrapper a bit frayed and discolored. ( wrapper was printed on paper which has become brittle by now). Texts in French. Complete copy of an original issue of this Belgian avant-garde art periodical. Contains e.g. articles by A. Desson on Philippe Soupault - Henry Petiot on Valery Larbaus ; W. George on Gromaire ; Robert Carnot on Marie Laurencin ; Tristan Tzara ( Port ).Exemplaire complet d'un numéro original de cette revue d'avant-garde belge, couverture légèrement abimée.…