€200 - €300
Centre Culturel Americain. Les Annees Vingt. Les ecrivains Americains a Paris et leurs amis 1920 - 30, 4to Paris 1959. First Edn., Exhibition catalogue prepared by Sylvia Beach (founder of the Paris bookshop Shakespeare & Co., and publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses), Helene Baltrusaitis and Mauric Saillet. With 142pp, photo illus etc., orig. pictorial wrappers.
* Loosely inserted is an A.L.s. in French from Helene Baltrusaitis to Wm. C. Bullitt, welcoming him back to Paris, inviting him to the Exhibition, and assuring him that Sylvia Beach will be delighted to see him again.;
With Presentation Inscription to Ambassador Bullitt
Laclos (Choderlos) Les Liaisons Dangereuses, sm. 8vo Paris [1936]. Original blue limp morocco. with W.M.C. Bullitt's book label. (2)
* The front loose blank bears manuscript Presentation Inscription to Bullitt dated Oct. 14, 1936 from Morton Fullerton (1865 - 1952), an American journalist on the staff of 'Le Figaro,' En Souvenir de nos exercises en semantiques pendant votre charmant accueil de tout a l'heure. Fullerton's note hints at but does not reveal the reason for his choice as a gift of this 1782 French classic, with its theme of sexual depravity and manipulation.
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