She wrote it over the course of her summer holiday from her studies at the Sorbonne when she was just eighteen years of age, and she took the name of a princess in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time as her nom de plume. Françoise Sagan.” A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY of Sagan’s first novel, linking the author with her literary patron. Written when Sagan was only eighteen, this 1955 novella will transport you not only to a sun-drenched French villa. Françoise Sagan caused a sensation in 1954 with her debut novel Bonjour Tristesse. Françoise Sagan (J September 24, 2004) born Françoise Quarez in Cajac, France was a French novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Sagan on the half-title: “Pour Madame Florence Jay Gould à qui je dois mon premier prix et ma première grande joie litteraire, en regrettant son absence et avec l’espoir de la remercier un jour prochain de vive voix. Bonjour tristesse, novel by Françoise Sagan, published in French in 1954. How did you come to start Bonjour tristesse when you were eighteen Did you expect it would be published FRANOISE SAGAN. Françoise Sagan, Author of Bonjour Tristesse. LIMITED EDITION, COPY NUMBER 1, of 30 copies on Vélin Alfa Navarre. Educated at private and convent schools in France and Switzerland, Sagan attended the Sorbonne. Fleming (1910-1987) (sold Christie’s New York, 18 November 1988, lot 302, noting that this volume was part of Fleming’s personal collection).įIRST EDITION of the author’s first book. Franoise Sagan, pseudonym of Franoise Quoirez, (born June 21, 1935, Carjac, Francedied September 24, 2004, Honfleur), French novelist and dramatist who wrote her first and best-known novel, the international best-seller Bonjour Tristesse (1954), when she was 19 years old.

Gould (1896-1983), art collector and patron (presentation inscription sold Sotheby’s Monaco, 24 June 1984, lot 170) John F. Black morocco, flat spine gilt-lettered, green calf doublures, black doeskin flyleaves, edges gilt, original printed wrappers and spine bound in, by Lucie Weill black half morocco and green wood chemise, black morocco-edged green wood slipcase.

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