Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers Rare Books & Collectors' Sale December 9th & 10th, 2020

207 fonsiemealy.ie fm All contents and images are subject to copyright 1153 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. (1) * The front loose blank bears manuscript Presentation Inscription to Bullitt dated Oct. 14, 1936 from Morton Fullerton (1865 - 1952), an American journalist on the sta ff 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. * See Biographical Note before Lot 153. € 150 - 200 1152 Bryant (Louise) Six Red Months in Russia, An Observer’s Account of Russia before and during the Proletarian Dictatorship. 8vo N. York 1918. First Edn., Dedicated ‘ to that beloved vagabond John Reed’ and inscribed by the author on hf. title, “ For Jack,” [her husband.] Illus, end papers, orig. red cloth covers. Scarce. * Included with this lot are 2 original postcard photographs of the Russian socialist Catherine Breshkovsy (1844 - 1934) “ Grandmother of the Revolution,” who survived four decades of imprisonment and Siberian exile, who was at last honoured by the 1917 Provisional (Anti- Bolshevist) government, and who lived to the age of ninety. Both cards bear messages written by her. There is an extra original frontis to the book & a photograph of Louisa Bryant in Russia; France (Anatole) Thais, (English translation by E. Tristan). sm. 8vo L. & N. York [1902]. Original cloth, with the book label of William C. Bullitt, and inscribed, most probably by Louise, “ John S. Reed and Louise Bryant, 43 Washington Square S. January 1916 New York City,” and also includes a copy of Robert A. Rosenstone’s book in paperback Romantic Revolutionary - a Biography of John Reed, Penguin 1982 (1st Edn. 1975) produced in time to capitalise on the success of “Reds”, the 13th highest grossing fi lm of 1981. A lot. * See Biographical Note before Lot 153. € 200 - 300 1155 Centre Cultural American 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. (1) * 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. * See Biographical Note before Lot 153. € 200 - 300 1154 With Draft letter to Rt. Hon. Harold Mac Millan Barber (Noel) The Week France Fell - June 1940, 8vo Lon. 1976. First Edn., 320pp 8pp of illus. & 2 maps, illus. end papers & orig. d.w. (1) * Noel Barber (1909 - 1988) was a journalist with the Daily Mail who had an adventurous career in foreign lands (he was stabbed fi ve times in Morocco and was shot in the head while covering the Hungarian Uprising in 1956). Between 1951 and 1979 he wrote 22 works of non- fi ction. Following a car crash which ended his career as a journalist, he wrote 6 successful novels. His very readable account of the fall of France is highly critical of Wm. Bullitt. His statement that Bullitt had never married elicited an angry letter from Anne, his daughter, to Harold Mac Millan, the publisher of “this foolish book”. A draft of the letter, and review of the book in the Evening Herald by Brian Queen is included in the lot. * See Biographical Note before Lot 153. € 150 - 200