VALÉRY, Paul

[NIETZSCHE] VALÉRY, Paul (1871-1945)

Autograph letter (draft) to count Guy de Pourtalès
S.l, “Saturday 16 9^bre [November] [19]29″, 2 p. in-8°

« The eternal return is only music »

[VALÉRY, Paul] Henri MANUEL (1874-1947)

Portrait of Paul Valéry, period film print
[Paris, c. 20’s], cabinet format

Handsome and scarce portrait of Paul Valéry by Henri Manuel

RILKE, Rainer Maria (1875-1926)

Autograph letter signed « RM Rilke » to Eduard Korrodi
[Glion] 20 March 1926, 8 p. in-8° in blue ink

« The feeling of this pure and grandiose landscape from which had come to me, in years of solitude and concentration, an incessant and inexhaustible help »

VALÉRY, Paul (1871-1945)

Autograph letter signed « Paul Valéry » to comte Gilbert de Voisin
Monday [19 January 1925], 1 page in-8

“I’m thanking you for this efficient talisman”

VALÉRY, Paul (1871-1945)

Autograph letter signed « Paul Valéry » to Comte Gilbert de Voisins
[Paris] 40 rue de Villejust (which later on became Paul Valery), [1925], 2 pages in-8, on grey paper

“Sometimes I have the clear idea that people have gone crazy“

VALÉRY, Paul (1871-1945)

Autograph letter signed « P.V » [à Maurice Noël]
N.p.n.d, « Saturday », 1 p. in-8°

« If Le Figaro finds it too abstract, send it back to me »

VALÉRY, Paul (1871-1945)

Autograph letter signed « Paul Valéry » to Pierre Camo
Paris, 40 rue de Villejust, September 1923, 3 pages in-8

“Sending a kind of flower through the vain network of latitudes”

VALÉRY, Paul (1871-1945)

Photographic portrait of Paul Valéry and his wife Jeannie Gobillard
Circa 1900, oblong format on black card (20.8 cm x 14.7 cm)

VALÉRY, Paul (1871-1945)

Autograph letter signed « Paul Valéry » to Maurice Noël
N.p.n.d « Wednesday » [6th May 1942 ?], 2 p. in-8°

« I chatted with Gide (in Marseilles) who gave me full powers, before embarking for Tunis »

VALÉRY, Paul (1871-1945)

Autograph letter signed « Paul Valéry » to Hermann-Paul
Tuesday [13th January 1925], 1 page in-8

“I’m thinking of fragments on Mallarmé”

VALÉRY, Paul (1871-1945)

Autograph letter signed “Paul Valéry” to a friend
Vence, [N.d], Easter [between 1921 and 1928], 2 pages 1/2 in-8

“I lead a lazy life, wanting and trying to work well”

VALÉRY, Paul (1871-1945)

Autograph letter signed « Paul Valéry » to a friend
N.p [Paris], 27th August 1942, 2 pages in-8, Institut de France letterhead

“I am becoming, by the force of things – a literary man!”