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  • Voyage autour de ma Chambre – Xavier de Maistre – Beautifully Illustrated by Maggy Monier

    Voyage autour de ma Chambre – Xavier de Maistre – Beautifully Illustrated by Maggy Monier

    Published by Nilsson, Paris the “Collection Emeraude [Emerald]” c 1930 with twelve aquarelles (watercolours) by Maggy Monier tipped in at front and throughout. A striking and delightful production.

    The author Xavier de Maistre (1763-1852) wrote this work in 1790 and it was published in 1794 when he was under arrest in Turin as a result of a duel.

    Voyage autour de ma chambre is a parody set in the tradition of the grand travel narrative. An autobiographical account of how a young official, imprisoned in his room for six weeks, looks at the furniture, engravings, etc., as if they were scenes from a voyage in a strange land. He praises this voyage because it does not cost anything, for and he recommends it to the poor, the infirm, and the lazy. “When I travel through my room,” he writes, “I rarely follow a straight line: I go from the table towards a picture hanging in a corner; from there, I set out obliquely towards the door; but even though, when I begin, it really is my intention to go there, if I happen to meet my armchair en route, I don’t think twice about it, and settle down in it without further ado.” Later, proceeding North, he encounters his bed, and in this way he light heartedly continues his “Voyage”.

    It was later quoted or referenced by Somerset Maugham, D H Lawrence. Jorge Luis Borges and other literary greats.

    Another beautiful french illustrated book

    $120.00

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  • Travels with My Aunt – Graham Greene – First American Edition 1970

    Travels with My Aunt – Graham Greene – First American Edition 1970

    Published by Greene’s American publishers Viking in 1970. A pretty good copy.

    Surely Graham Greene’s funniest book – as with many of his the basis of a movie success. Parts of this appeared in Playboy!?

    First American Edition – Hilarious

    $50.00

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