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The copy belonging to Louis Giraud-Badin, auction expert.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">A Parisian bookseller who reinvented her profession, Adrienne Monnier opened her bookshop in 1915, which soon became very successful. Renamed<i> La Maison des Amis des Livres<\/i> in 1918, the shop was not just a place to sell books, Monnier also set up a lending system to help less fortunate readers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Gradually, she turned her focus towards contemporary authors and contributed to promoting an entire generation of writers, not only by selling their books but also by hosting literary evenings. Adrienne Monnier was the archetype of the modern woman of letters. It was under her aegis that writers such as Paul Valery, Jules Romains, L\u00e9on-Paul Fargue, Pierre Reverdy, Paul Claudel, Blaise Cendrars and Paul L\u00e9autaud became key figures in the Parisian literary scene.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Always driven by the desire to introduce a young generation of authors to the French public, she founded the magazine <i>Le Navire d&#8217;Argent<\/i> in 1925. It was this venture that led her into debt and forced her to sell her books.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">She recalled this episode in an interview with Genevi\u00e8ve Bonnefoi in 1951 &nbsp;: \u00ab&nbsp;Ce fut, h\u00e9las, une exp\u00e9rience malheureuse. Il n\u2019eut que douze num\u00e9ros et me laissa ruin\u00e9e, oblig\u00e9e de vendre ma biblioth\u00e8que.&nbsp;\u00bb. (G. Bonnefoi, \u00ab&nbsp;Adrienne Monnier abandonne sa librairie mais ne quitte pas la rue de l\u2019Od\u00e9on&nbsp;\u00bb, <i>Combat, <\/i>28 juin 1951, p.4.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Monnier is reluctantly selling her library, and the announcement of the sale surprised the literary world of Paris at the time. She explained her decision to Charensol: \u00ab&nbsp;C\u2019est pour conserver mon ind\u00e9pendance absolue que j\u2019ai consenti \u00e0 me s\u00e9parer de mes livres. Ils sont pourtant ce que j\u2019aime le mieux au monde et jamais je ne les ai tant aim\u00e9s&nbsp;\u00bb (Charensol, \u00ab&nbsp;Pourquoi, Mademoiselle, vendez-vous vos livres&nbsp;?&nbsp;\u00bb, <i>Les Nouvelles litt\u00e9raires<\/i>, 15 mai 1926, p.2.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The same article highlights the unwavering support of his writer friends, who even offer her new inscriptions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The sale took place on 14 and 15 May 1926, and the catalogue was compiled by Monnier herself. According to <i>Le Bulletin du Bibliophile<\/i>, which published not only the results but also an opinion on the bids, the sale was moderately successful. However, some items achieved remarkable results, including the manuscript of Saint L\u00e9ger&#8217;s <i>Anabase<\/i> (no. 335), which sold for 4,000 francs, probably to the Countess of Fels;<i> La Ballade de la Ge\u00f4le<\/i> de Wilde sold for 2,650 francs, and the first edition of James Joyce&#8217;s <i>Ulysses<\/i>, inscribed \u2018To Adrienne Monnier\u2019, sold for 2,490 francs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The latter is particularly important for literary history. Indeed, it was thanks to Adrienne Monnier, but above all her partner Sylvia Beach, owner of Shakespeare and Co. bookshop, that James Joyce succeeded, after many twists and turns, in publishing the first edition of Ulysses in Paris in 1922.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">As this copy belonged to Giraud-Badin, it gives us an insight into the sale itself. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The catalogue contains several types of notes, both on the printed pages and on the interleaved sheets. The pencil notes often correspond to the sale results, the orders taken beforehand and a few names of the successful bidders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">On the interleaved pages, other notes appear in blue marker, including the names of buyers and sometimes Giraud-Badin&#8217;s code.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Thanks to this copy, we know that Lardenchet, Lambert, Millot, Mrs Meeking, Chapin, Gradis, the Countess of Fels, Bloch, the Count of Vasselot, G. Thomas, B. Harrison, Albert Henraux, Sanson, Monod, Davis, and Blaizot were among the buyers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">This copy encapsulates the spirit of literary life in Saint Germain des Pr\u00e8s during the interwar period. It bears witness to the profession of bookseller from two perspectives, not only through Monnier&#8217;s collection but also through Giraud-Badin&#8217;s notes. Behind the pages, one can read the entirety of the literary relationships of the time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Titlepiece rubbed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify\">8vo (220 x 140 mm) 100 pp, fully interleaved. Beige buckram Bradel binding, green morocco title piece, \u201cA. 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