For sale by Veery Books:

, Grand Street: 68; Symbols
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  Grand Street: 68; Symbols
  Grand Street, New York, 1999, Wraps, , , Very Good
  
  

  233 pp. + advs. Light bumps to corners, else fine. Ozren Kebo, Hell; Alberto Guerra Narnjo, There Are Blows in Life So Hard . . .; Willie Cole (Portfolio); Vladimir Nabokov, Cubes; Lesley Dauer, Two Poems; Alecander Haussner, Under Robert's Sky; Martha Black Jordan, Chinese Landscape by Fan K'uan; Claude Levi-Strauss, Letter to Paul Rivet, June 17, 1938 & The Shatter Hologram; Jorge Luis Borges, The Dialogues of Ascetic and King; Alfred Jensen (Portfolio); Mitchell Feigenbaum, The Cow and I; Grover Amen, Three Poems, Fabio Morabito, Man on the Run; Tomaz Salamun, Six Poems; Andrei Tarkovsky, Hoffmanniana; William Eggleston (Portfolio); Mike Davis, L.A.'s Pentacostal Earthquake; Elaine Feinstein, Two Poems; Nizar Kabbani, Grant Me Love That I May Bloom and Green; Shaker ''Gift Drawings'' (Portfolio); Michael Hoffmann, Two Poems; Lidia Jorge, The Instrumentaling; Brennen T. Lukas, Two Poems; Brigid Berlin, Sweets; The Luo Brothers (Portfolio); David Hellman, Three Poems; Murathan Mungan, This Side of the Legend; Brooke Wiese, He and She; Ravinder Reddy (Portfolio); Charles Merewether, The Rise ad Fall of Monuments; Peter Constantine, Two Poems; Chris Mannerlein (Portfolio); Kevin Young, Two Poems; Sarah Louise Williams, The BlueMan at Thirty-Five Feet; Sara Wallace, The North Place; Milisav Savit, Stifling.

  
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An excellent report by Maureen Mulvihill of the auction of rare books and manuscripts from the estate of Paula Peyraud

The Paula Peyraud Collection: Samuel Johnson & Women Writers in Georgian Society. An Auction Report by Maureen E. Mulvihill as published in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Fall 2009, with 8 images and a list of selected buyers, prices & new locations of the Peyraud properties. A pdf of the published report may be downloaded here: http://www.ilab.org/download.php?object=documentation&id=81

‘DARK LADY’ OF RARE BOOK COLLECTORS, PAULA FENTRESS PEYRAUD (CHAPPAQUA, NY, 1947 ~ 2008). Peyraud Collection Auction, May 2009, Bloomsbury Auctions N.Y. 483 Lots (books, manuscripts, images). Sales total: $1.6 million, including premium. Photograph, Margie Van Dyke. Bookplate from Peyraud copy of Frances Burney’s Cecilia, (lot 218, buyer McGill University). Bookplate bears inscribed initials (“FCP - EKP”), being the collector’s grandparents Frank C. Peyraud & Elizabeth Krysler Peyraud, both visual artists (see “Peyraud,” Benezit, vol. 10, 2006 edition).

Ballade des Dames de Temps Jadis

 Dictes-moy où, n’en quel pays,
 Est Flora la belle Rommaine;
 Archipiada ne Thaïs,
 Qui fut sa cousine germaine,
 Echo parlant quant bruyt on maine
 Dessus rivière ou sus estan,
 Qui beauté eut trop plus qu’humaine?
 Mais où sont les neiges d’antan!

 Où est la très sage Heloïs,
 Pour qui chastré et puis moyne
 Pierre Esbaillart à Sainct-Denys?
 Pour son amour eut cest essoyne
 Semblablement, où est la royne
 Qui commanda que Buridan
 Fust jetté en ung sac en Seine?
 Mais où sont les neiges d’antan!

 La royne Blanche comme ung lys.
 Qui chantoit à voix de sereine,
 Berthe au grand pied, Bietris, Alys,
 Harembuorges, qui tient le Mayne,
 Et Jehanne, la bonne Lorraine
 Qu’Anglois bruslèrent à Rouen;
 Où sont-ils, Vierge souvraine?
 Mais où sont les neiges d’antan!

 Prince, n’enquerez de sepmaine
 Où elles sont, ne de cest an,
 Que ce refrain ne vous remaine:
 Mais où sont les neiges d’antan!