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issue of 75 quarto copies, alongside issues of 3,650 octavo copies; an exemplary copy. La Trahison des clercs , was “undoubtedly one of the major events in political thought between the two wars. The ‘Clerc’ is what Benda conceived the intellectual to be, someone disengaged from the mere contingencies of existence and fighting for ideals which went beyond the demands of a given moment in space and time. In violent and brilliant invective, he attacked the intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for having fallen short of this ideal by becoming the devoted advocates not of ideals, but of groups of existences, material and transient, such as a nation of a social class. The title of Benda’s manifesto became a kind of catch phrase which, by a curious irony of fate, inverted its original sense, and came sometimes to be used as a term of reproach for the intellectuals who shut themselves off from the march of events in an ivory tower. The Trahison des Clercs achieved a world- wide popularity and was translated and reprinted over and over again . . . [It] continues to be read; and its invigorating attack on over-involvement deserves not to be forgotten” ( PMM ). Quarto. Original white wrappers, spine and front cover lettered in black and green, edges uncut; preserving original glassine. Glassine a little chipped. A fine, unopened copy. ¶ Hazlitt, The Free Man’s Library , p. 40: Printing and the Mind of Man 419. £1,500 [152080]
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11 THE BEATLES. John Lennon sitting on an advertising hoarding at Marylebone Station, during the filming of A Hard Day’s Night . London: SH Editions, 5 April 1964 / 2021 long lost photographs from the set of a hard day’s night Edition 1 of 35, artist’s name blindstamped lower right, publisher’s blindstamped lower left, numbered in black pen on the verso. In spring 1964, photographer Lord Chistopher Thynne (1934–2017) was invited onto the set of A Hard Day’s Night for two days of filming. During this time he took candid photos of the Fab Four on and off set using medium-format and 35mm film. The negatives
remained undeveloped for 57 years and were recently discovered among the family papers. Original silver gelatin print on Ilford Multigrade fibre base 255 gsm paper. Sheet size: 61 × 50.5 cm. Framed size: 82.5 × 66.8 cm. Excellent condition. Presented in a black wooden frame with conservation acrylic glazing. £825 [152539] 12 BENDA, Julien. La Trahison des clercs. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1927 AN INFLUENTIAL MANIFESTO First edition of the author’s best known book, number 9 of 14 copies on Annam de Rives, from an
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