Colette Novel (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Good+ dj. First Edition. [light dampstaining along rear joint (bleed-through from jacket stain), no other significant wear; the jacket is decent-looking on front and rear panels, but the spine is stained and discolored, with a small pull-tear]. (B&W photographs) "The first non-musical hit of the season," reads the first jacket blurb -- so, of course, when Hollywood got around to it the first thing they thought was "hey, this thing could really use some songs!" Not a bad decision, though, since the resulting film managed to not only get past the censors (who were concerned because lovely young Gigi was, after all, "in training" to be a high-class courtesan) but also to take home the "Best Picture" Oscar for 1958. The novel was originally published in 1944, and had been filmed in France in 1948. The Broadway version made a star of Audrey Hepburn, who is featured in all three of the photographs in this edition (and on the paper label affixed to the front cover), but of course they hadda get a real French girl (Leslie Caron) for the movie. This was a review copy, and has the original publisher's slip laid in; from the collection of longtime New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. First American Edition. First edition stated. Unmarked except for neat rubber stamp on front endpaper, tight and square. Tan textured cloth has nice photo of Audrey Hepburn framed onfront board with some red and gold design elements. Price intact jacket has some light to moderate foxing and serious tanning to spine with a fe small chips at edges. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original limp navy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 6''. Contains 154 printed pages of French text. Cheap paper starting to brown. Very Good condition book in near Very Good condition dust wrapper with one small piece of paper missing to the bottom front corner. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. FRANCE [Literature & History).…

Paper wraps. 177 pp. Light tanning to closed page edges. M. Bouchaud illustrated wrapper with 5 mm rubs to spine tips, short closed tear to lower to foot of spine. Scarce in wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1926-1945.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Loos, Anita (dramatist) Colette (novel). GIGI. New York: Random House, (1952). First Edition, first printing. A Fine copy in a Fine priced ($2.50) dust jacket. The DJ has a little fade to the spine, perhaps 10%, otherwise this is one of the best copies we've seen of this undervalued title. There are a half-dozen photographs inside featuring Audrey Hepburn in the role of GIGI from its first Broadway run in 1950. Source for the 1959 musical film starring Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier, with the lyrics and music of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederic Loewe, which won an astonishing nine Academy Awards including Best Picture.…

Vintage Spanish magazine advertisement for the 1934 film, here under the Spanish title "El lago de las damas." Based on the 1929 novel, "Grand Hotel," by Vicki Baum. A young man starts a summer job at a lake resort, where he falls in love. Their situation is complicated by the tomboy who lives across the lake and his ex girlfriend showing up. 9.5 x 13 inches. Very Good, with creasing along the right edge and at the top right corner as well as four small tears at the right edge, presumably from creasing.…

Limited Edition. One of 2,000 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the illustrator, this being copy no.573. Quarto (29cm); original turquoise linen, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; publisher's pale blue paper-covered slipcase; xiv,[2],3-137,[9]pp; with illustrations throughout the text, including three color silkscreens. Gentle sunning to spine, small rubbed spot to heel; Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase, with some light sunning around the opening. An attractive edition of the French author's 1928 novel La Naissance du jour.…

Vintage photograph of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini on the set of the 1954 film. Mimeo snipe, dated May 17, 1953, "International News Photos" and "Return to: Chronicle Files" stamps on verso. The International News Photos snipe addresses the movie as "New Wine." While we could not verify that working title, Rossellini and co-screenwriter Vitaliano Brancati had drawn on a script by Antonio Pietrangeli entitled "New Vine" for "Journey to Italy," and was likely an error by the news agency. Loosely based on the 1934 novel "Duo" by Colette. An English couple, Alex (George Sanders) and Katherine Joyce (Bergman), eight years married, travel to Italy to sell a villa inherited from Alex's uncle. Along the drive and during their stay at the villa they come to the realization they really don't know one another and have little desire to spend time together. Set in and shot on location in Naples and Rome, Italy. 7 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Godard, Histoire(s) du Cinema. BFI 540. Scorcese, My Voyage to Italy.…