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Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. One of the most successful novels and one of the best known by this great writer Jean Giono. "Un des baumugnes" was adapted for the big screen in 1934 by Marcel Pagnol under the title "Angèle". It is a good print in the original edition on Alfa: it is especially accompanied by an autograph letter from Jean Giono to André Tillieux, Belgian writer, great friend of Brassens who himself venerated Giono. Envelope attached.
John GIONO.
One from Baumugnes.
Paris, Grasset, 1929
First edition, which constitutes the third work of the first series of Bernard Grasset's personal collection, Pour mon Plaisir. Paperback In 8 (12x18.5cm) 228 pp. + (2), cover filled with light bistre, black printing in a red printed frame. Thumbnail of the collection in the center First edition printed in 2664 copies, one of 2500 on Alfa Navarre: N°349 .
“Simple novel, the only one among all those which precede and which follow until 1937 to have nothing of panic; also the only one, among Giono's novels, whose summary could be that of a novel for a station library, and I say this to the glory of Giono,
for it is a tour de force to draw from such a subject an admirable book”.
(Pierre Citron, Giono. Seuil, 1990, p123.)
After the success of Colline, Grasset will change his attitude and, on the advice of Louis Brun literary director, he decides to publish Giono's second novel "Un de Baumugnes" in his personal collection For my pleasure. Marcel Pagnol adapted four works by Giono for the cinema, including Angèle in 1934, taken from this novel.
Condition: Good to very good. Exterior: faded covers, a little soiled, spine peels off slightly. Interior: apart from some foxing (especially at the beginning and end of the book) localized and not very annoying, the book remains fresh.
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An autograph letter signed by Giono to André Tillieu
Letter of a sheet of 20.5 cms x 13.5 cms, written on the front. Fairly thin glossy white paper. Undated but the corresponding preserved envelope attached allows, thanks to the stamp, to say that it dates from December 1956 Contact person: André Tillieu (address at 87 rue Verheyden in Anderlecht):
6 lines (plus conclusion formula plus signature) in thick, dark black ink., Beautiful signature.
Jean Giono approves the travel plan and the different stages that Tilleu plans to do in Haute Provence. Tillieu had to ask Giono for advice and tell him what he was planning to visit and Giono approves and offers him his help "I will do this route for you"
"Okay dear friend, everything you think you can do in Haute Provence is possible and even easy. So this summer, I will do this itinerary for you. Just take the precaution of letting me know 10 days before your arrival
Happy New Year and best regards
John Giono"
Very good condition: a vertical central fold, the rest is barely creased
André Tilleu Born in 1924 in Tournai. Journalist, columnist, writer. An intimate friend of Georges Brassens, we owe him several essential works devoted to the Sète poet and in particular the remarkable Brassens. He and Brassens were also close to Jean Giono
Tliieu is planning a trip to Haute Provence and it is only natural that he asks Jean Giono to guide him. Who better than him? An indefatigable walker, Giono found, in his wind-chiselled Haute Provence, a wild beauty that soothed him.
Novels, essays, poems, journalistic chronicles, plays, screenplays, Giono leaves a work that has more than 90 titles, presented in the last room of the exhibition. He is one of the most translated authors in the world: 42 languages, including 30 for The Man Who Planted Trees, a pure ecologist with no political overtones. 67361289
